TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of the availability of an offshore installation by Monte Carlo simulation
AU - Zio, Enrico
AU - Baraldi, Piero
AU - Patelli, Edoardo
PY - 2006/4/1
Y1 - 2006/4/1
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/availibility 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/availibility 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 - offshore installation
KW - oil production
KW - production level identification
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33646519229&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2006.02.010
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2006.02.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646519229
SN - 0308-0161
VL - 83
SP - 312
EP - 320
JO - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
JF - International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
IS - 4
ER -