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Application of Reliability, Availability and Maintainability at power supply systems on Offshore Installations for Improved Uptime Availability

Athle, Isabelle (2014) MIO920
Production Management
Abstract
Problem discussion:
Uptime availability is an essential parameter in profitable production within the oil and gas industry. Several installations have a problem achieving their uptime availability target as platforms stand still for shorter or longer periods of time. A reduced uptime availability can cause significant losses for the platform. The power supply is a constant subject within the industry and also a subsystem with significant impact on system uptime availability. The use of RAM methodologies is believed to help in identification of critical parameters and improving uptime. To analyze how to increase availability for power supply system is therefore of great interest.
Purpose:
The main purpose of this project is to perform a... (More)
Problem discussion:
Uptime availability is an essential parameter in profitable production within the oil and gas industry. Several installations have a problem achieving their uptime availability target as platforms stand still for shorter or longer periods of time. A reduced uptime availability can cause significant losses for the platform. The power supply is a constant subject within the industry and also a subsystem with significant impact on system uptime availability. The use of RAM methodologies is believed to help in identification of critical parameters and improving uptime. To analyze how to increase availability for power supply system is therefore of great interest.
Purpose:
The main purpose of this project is to perform a simulation study for two power supply systems at offshore installations. The simulation study will help evaluate quality performance improvements in uptime availability and reliability. Containing understanding of and evaluation on how RAM analysis can be used to improve uptime availability.
Conclusions:
Uptime availability can clearly be affected using RAM methodologies but the importance in all analyses lies in the input data. With the use of RAM all systems can be analyzed as long as there is valid input data. Uptime is therefore mostly affected by the input data and its reliability. (Less)
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author
Athle, Isabelle
supervisor
organization
course
MIO920
year
type
M1 - University Diploma
subject
keywords
Uptime, Availability, Reliability, Maintainability, RAM, HVDC, subsea cable, gas turbines, fault tree analysis
other publication id
14/5502
language
English
id
4647331
date added to LUP
2014-09-16 14:20:06
date last changed
2014-09-16 14:20:06
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  abstract     = {{Problem discussion:
Uptime availability is an essential parameter in profitable production within the oil and gas industry. Several installations have a problem achieving their uptime availability target as platforms stand still for shorter or longer periods of time. A reduced uptime availability can cause significant losses for the platform. The power supply is a constant subject within the industry and also a subsystem with significant impact on system uptime availability. The use of RAM methodologies is believed to help in identification of critical parameters and improving uptime. To analyze how to increase availability for power supply system is therefore of great interest.
Purpose:
The main purpose of this project is to perform a simulation study for two power supply systems at offshore installations. The simulation study will help evaluate quality performance improvements in uptime availability and reliability. Containing understanding of and evaluation on how RAM analysis can be used to improve uptime availability.
Conclusions:
Uptime availability can clearly be affected using RAM methodologies but the importance in all analyses lies in the input data. With the use of RAM all systems can be analyzed as long as there is valid input data. Uptime is therefore mostly affected by the input data and its reliability.}},
  author       = {{Athle, Isabelle}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Application of Reliability, Availability and Maintainability at power supply systems on Offshore Installations for Improved Uptime Availability}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}