Prognosis of wear-out effect on of safety equipment reliability for nuclear power plants long-term safe operation
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Title: | Prognosis of wear-out effect on of safety equipment reliability for nuclear power plants long-term safe operation |
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Authors: | Martón, Isabel | Sánchez, Ana Isabel | Carlos, Sofía | Mullor, Rubén | Martorell, Sebastián |
Research Group/s: | Grupo de Estadística Aplicada (GESTA) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Matemáticas |
Keywords: | Nuclear power plants | Long-term safe operation | Safety equipment reliability | Wear-out effect |
Issue Date: | 1-Feb-2023 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2023, 233: 109121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2023.109121 |
Abstract: | To reach a Net Zero Emission scenario, on 1st January 2022 the European Union (EU) declared nuclear and gas as transitional activities under strict safety conditions. A central challenge is that many nuclear reactors in operation are close to or have reached their design life, so that, it is required to demonstrate the influence of equipment ageing on plant reliability will be kept under control in the plan extended lifetime. In this work a three-step methodology is proposed to obtain the time instants at which the failure rate behaviour changes (break points) and the most appropriate age-dependant reliability model to explicitly include the effects of ageing and maintenance. The methodology requires the reliability parameters estimation at each phase of the plant equipment lifetime, what is carried out by using the available Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) historical data, which is quite scarce. The methodology is applied to a motor operated valve of a NPP safety system. The results demonstrate the capability of the approach proposed to estimate and predict the component reliability in the plant extended lifetime depending on the maintenance policy implemented, being necessary to estimate an accurate age-dependant reliability model to support the decision-making process on equipment ageing management. |
Sponsor: | Grant PID2019-110590RB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 “ERDF A way of making Europe”. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/131814 |
ISSN: | 0951-8320 (Print) | 1879-0836 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109121 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2023.109121 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - GESTA - Artículos de Revistas |
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