Metaheuristic algorithms are extensively utilized to find solutions and optimize complex
industrial systems' performance. In this paper, metaheuristic algorithms are utilized to predict …

Power plants are large-scale generation facilities with high investment costs established to
ensure sustainable energy supply. Maintenance-Repair activities constitute the most critical …

Power plant successful operation is always a function of its constituent sub-systems and
components. Due to the current financial constraints in power industry, power plant …

This article presents the performance (availability) evaluation of a typical coalfired power
plant in a realistic working environment for identifying the critical sub-system and planning …

The present paper deals with the effect of pump hot-cold redundancy on availability of
various subsystems in a thermal power plant. For analysis two subsystems of thermal power …

Cooling towers are mainly utilized to disperse the heat of thermal power plants (TPP). The
availability of cooling tower is directly proportional to the maximum availability of TPP. To …

The present study deals with the redundancy effect on operational availability of coal-fired
power plant for known failure and repair rates of each component or unit in the system. For …

In line with the advancing technology, reliability has become one of the critical factors to be
taken into consideration by the operators in the energy sector to minimize losses regarding …

An innovative design for combustion control of utility boiler using control balance model
based cascaded fuzzy controller scheme is proposed. The existing control schemes have …

Hydro power generation is one of the most successful renewable energy resources for the
production electrical energy without any environmental hazard and presently it …