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MECHANICAL RELIABILITY AND PLANT PERFORMANCE
Citation:
Rossman, L. MECHANICAL RELIABILITY AND PLANT PERFORMANCE. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/D-83/056 (NTIS PB83219402).
Description:
A two state statistical model is proposed for studying the effect of equipment outages on plant performance. Simulation of lost treatment capacity in an activated sludge treatment system indicates the degree to which BOD violation frequencies are much more sensitive to lost aeration capacity than to lost clarifier or return sludge pumping capacity. A framework for utilizing the model to select cost-effective levels of design redundancy is presented. A simplified version of the procedure is applied to the design of an aeration system.
Record Details:
Record Type:DOCUMENT( REPORT )
Product Published Date:05/24/2002
Record Last Revised:12/10/2002
Record ID:
33449