DocumentCode :
2210294
Title :
Reliability/availability of K-out-of-N system with M cold standby units
Author :
Wang, Wendai ; Loman, James
Author_Institution :
GE Corporate Res. & Dev. Center, Schenectady, NY, USA
fYear :
2002
fDate :
2002
Firstpage :
450
Lastpage :
455
Abstract :
A generalized repairable system reliability model, K-out-of-N plus M cold standby units, is proposed in this paper. Reliability and availability of this system have been deeply studied under several combinations of assumptions/cases: identical and different cold standby, perfect and imperfect switching, and single backup and backup itself is a k-out-of-n system. Reliability evaluation of such systems is developed and provided. How to design this kind of power system to achieve its reliability requirements is studied and discussed. Factors that affect system reliability characteristics are presented. A real example of the defined system (on-site power plant) is provided through the developed approach. Reliability and availability of the power plant are evaluated, which is much-more reliable than the existing power sources. Further research and considerations are also discussed
Keywords :
consecutive system reliability; power generation reliability; power plants; K-out-of-N system availability; K-out-of-N system reliability; cold standby units; imperfect switching; k-out-of-n system; on-site power plant; perfect switching; reliability requirements; repairable system reliability model; Availability; Distributed power generation; Manufacturing; Mesh generation; Power generation; Power system modeling; Power system reliability; Power systems; Standby generators; Telecommunications;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2002. Proceedings. Annual
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
ISSN :
0149-144X
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7348-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/RAMS.2002.981684
Filename :
981684
Link To Document :
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