TY - GEN
T1 - A Monte Carlo simulation approach to the production availability evaluation of an offshore installation with operational loops
AU - Zio, E.
AU - Baraldi, P.
AU - Patelli, E.
PY - 2005/12/1
Y1 - 2005/12/1
N2 - The need of realistic models to evaluate the availability of multi-state, multi-output plants is felt in many advanced industries such as the nuclear, aerospace, oil and chemical ones. Indeed, often the complexity of the plant and of its maintenance and reconfiguration policies is such to render unfeasible its reliability/availability evaluation by analytical models. In this paper we consider the problem of determining the production availability of an offshore installation in which three different kinds of production processes are carried out, under realistic operation and maintenance conditions which create operational loops in the system. A new systematic procedure for following, in a computationally convenient way, the time evolution of the multi-output plant production is proposed.
AB - The need of realistic models to evaluate the availability of multi-state, multi-output plants is felt in many advanced industries such as the nuclear, aerospace, oil and chemical ones. Indeed, often the complexity of the plant and of its maintenance and reconfiguration policies is such to render unfeasible its reliability/availability evaluation by analytical models. In this paper we consider the problem of determining the production availability of an offshore installation in which three different kinds of production processes are carried out, under realistic operation and maintenance conditions which create operational loops in the system. A new systematic procedure for following, in a computationally convenient way, the time evolution of the multi-output plant production is proposed.
KW - reliability analysis
KW - analytical model
KW - Monte Carlo Simulation
KW - offshore installations
KW - operation and maintenance
KW - accident prevention
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/56249085759
M3 - Conference contribution book
AN - SCOPUS:56249085759
SN - 0415383420
SN - 9780415383424
T3 - Advances in Safety and Reliability - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2005
SP - 2109
EP - 2117
BT - Advances in Safety and Reliability - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2005
A2 - Kołowrocki, Krzysztof
PB - A.A. Balkema
T2 - 16th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2005
Y2 - 27 June 2005 through 30 June 2005
ER -