| Titre : | Scheduling of major investments for a steam-generating unit using a stochastic model (2011) |
| Auteurs : | Sakowicz, B., Auteur ; Stopczyk, M., Auteur ; Anders, G. J., Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | IEEE transactions on energy conversion (Vol. 25, N° 3, Septembre 2010) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 708 - 714 |
| Note générale : | energy conversion |
| Langues : | Anglais |
| Tags : | Internet ; Monte Carlo methods ; maintenance engineering ; power engineering computing ; generation economics ; steam stations |
| Résumé : | This paper compares and analyzes the economics of alternative maintenance plans for generating stations. The usual life-cycle investment decisions for power plant equipment involve definition of alternative scenarios with specified refurbishment dates. The aim of the paper is to present a method for the selection of optimal investment dates that minimizes the life-cycle cost of the analyzed equipment. The system is introduced as a distributed web-based software application. The methodology based on combining evolutionary programming with Monte Carlo simulations is described and illustrated by a numerical example involving analysis of the optimal timing of new investments for refurbishment of a large generator at a thermal-generating plant. |
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