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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Critical equipment"”.
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Leading Indicators of Safety in Nuclear Energy
… The three indicators are: maintenance of safety critical equipment, ease of use of technical manuals and guides, and relevance of employee training. </p>
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Sodium-Ion Battery Cathode Active Material Cost Drivers and Manufacturing Scale-up Barriers
… and scale-up barriers of LMOs. Processes and equipment considerations influencing scale-up are probed through interviews with experts in industry and academia, and materials and process properties driving the design of critical equipment are identified. A process-based cost model is utilized …
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The Impact of Load Shedding on the Quality of healthcare Services at a Selected Hospital in Vhembe District Limpopo Province, South Africa
… healthcare services in South Africa, disrupting critical equipment and placing pressure on healthcare providers. This study aimed to explore and describe the impact of load shedding on the quality of healthcare services at a selected hospital in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province. A qualitative …
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The aeroacoustics response and shear layer dynamics of confined cavities subject to low Mach number turbulent flow
… This compromises the safety and reliability of critical equipment due to a phenomenon attributed to interaction between the instability of the shear layer and the acoustic modes of a given system. This thesis experimentally investigates the aeroacoustics response of cylindrical cavities having …
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Current based condition monitoring of electromechanical systems. Model-free drive system current monitoring: faults detection and diagnosis through statistical features extraction and support vector machines classification.
… avoid the consequence of unexpected failure of critical equipment which results in extended process shutdown, costly machinery repair, and health and safety problems. This thesis looks into the possibility of utilizing machine learning techniques in the field of condition monitoring of …
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Optimising Turnaround Maintenance (TAM) Scheduling of Gas plants in Libya
Gas plants consist of several pieces of both critical static and rotating equipment, which operate continuously under severe operating conditions. These pieces of equipment are permanently subjected to be inspected and maintained during total shutdown of plant facilities to execute Turnaround …
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Designing a maintenance management system for a small to medium sized manufacturing plant
… feedback on maintenance performance, costs and equipment history. 2. A Preventive Maintenance System. Such a system would be modest to begin with and could gradually become more comprehensive to include all production equipment. 3. A Maintenance Information System. The trend nowadays is toward …
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Voltage stability analysis of a power system network comprising a nuclear power plant
… presented are mathematical models of network equipment such as under voltage tap changers and the dynamic loads that are of interest when evaluating voltage stability. The models used for evaluation of the voltage stability phenomenon affecting a nuclear power plant and the surrounding …
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Carbon dioxide capture by chemical absorption : a solvent comparison study
… was calculated and an evaluation of the required equipment size for critical equipment in the system was performed. The degradation characteristics and environmental impact of the solvents were also investigated. In addition, different flow-sheet configurations were explored to optimize the energy …
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Fire safety risk model for a main vertical zone of a large passenger ship
… engineering, systemic analysis of safety critical equipment and operations is thought to be the way forward towards a fire free system. Safety barriers have been adequately used in other industries, such as aerospace, oil and gas, and navy ships, but their adoption within the maritime …