Redundancy is widely used for enhancing a system’s overall availability. As an HTR demonstrated plant, a high temperature gas-cooled reactor pebble-bed module (HTR-PM) now is under construction in China and the construction will be completed around 2017. In HTR-PM, there are many devices and device groups used in a redundant way to guarantee the high availability of the related functions, especially the functions shared by two reactors during the entire life time. It is very important and necessary to determine their reliabilities as well as how to make a decision about the related maintenance policies to enhance their availabilities. In this paper, typical redundant styles in the HTR-PM are summarized and demonstrated. Accordingly, the theoretical models, which are able to describe the reliabilities of the redundant systems, are proposed based on Markov chain model. Moreover, for a specific redundant structure, the relationship between the availability and the maintenance period is analytically addressed. Based on the model, we address that: as the digital monitoring and control technologies are widely used in nuclear power plants, monitoring methods targeting for decreasing maintenance costs and meanwhile increasing the availabilities for different redundant styles are very beneficial.
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2016 24th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
June 26–30, 2016
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Nuclear Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5001-5
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Reliability Analysis and Availability Enhancements for Redundant Systems With Reparable Components
Shuqiao Zhou,
Shuqiao Zhou
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Chao Guo
Chao Guo
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Shuqiao Zhou
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Duo Li
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Chao Guo
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Paper No:
ICONE24-60408, V001T04A009; 5 pages
Published Online:
October 25, 2016
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Zhou, S, Li, D, & Guo, C. "Reliability Analysis and Availability Enhancements for Redundant Systems With Reparable Components." Proceedings of the 2016 24th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. June 26–30, 2016. V001T04A009. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ICONE24-60408
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