Download or read book Synthesis of Power Plant Outage Schedules written by Douglas R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document provides a report on the creation of domain theories in the power plant outage domain. These were developed in conjunction with the creation of a demonstration system of advanced scheduling technology for the outage problem. In 1994 personnel from Rome Laboratory (RL), Kaman Science (KS), Kestrel Institute, and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) began a joint project to develop scheduling tools for power plant outage activities. This report describes our support for this joint effort. The project uses KIDS (Kestrel Interactive Development System) to generate schedulers from formal specifications of the power plant domain outage activities.
Download or read book Synthesis of Power Plant Outage Schedules written by Douglas R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Synthesis of Power Plant Outage Schedulers written by Carla Gomes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We describe the synthesis of efficient schedulers for planned shutdowns of power plants for refueling and maintenance (outages), using an automated programming tool, KIDS. Currently, the utility industry has no automated tools to generate schedules that are both safe and resource-efficient. We focused on safety constraints since they are critical in this application. There are several aspects of this project that go beyond previous applications of KIDS to scheduling problems. First, scheduling of outages of power plants has a planning-like character since the scheduler needs to represent and maintain the complex state of the plant at all times considered during the scheduling process. Second, the particular safety constraints we considered required scheduling a pool of resources in the presence of time windows on each activity. To our knowledge the control and data structures that we developed for handling such a pool are novel. In terms of design knowledge, the outage scheduling problem is modeled as a constraint satisfaction problem and the synthesized algorithm is an instance of global search with constraint propagation. The derivation of specialized representations for the constraints to perform efficient propagation is a key aspect of our approach. In addition, finite differencing complements constraint propagation by efficiently maintaining the sate of the world.
Download or read book Synthesis of Power Plant Outage Schedulers written by Carla Gomes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We describe the synthesis of efficient schedulers for planned shutdowns of power plants for refueling and maintenance (outages), using an automated programming tool, KIDS. Currently, the utility industry has no automated tools to generate schedules that are both safe and resource-efficient. We focused on safety constraints since they are critical in this application. There are several aspects of this project that go beyond previous applications of KIDS to scheduling problems. First, scheduling of outages of power plants has a planning-like character since the scheduler needs to represent and maintain the complex state of the plant at all times considered during the scheduling process. Second, the particular safety constraints we considered required scheduling a pool of resources in the presence of time windows on each activity. To our knowledge the control and data structures that we developed for handling such a pool are novel. In terms of design knowledge, the outage scheduling problem is modeled as a constraint satisfaction problem and the synthesized algorithm is an instance of global search with constraint propagation. The derivation of specialized representations for the constraints to perform efficient propagation is a key aspect of our approach. In addition, finite differencing complements constraint propagation by efficiently maintaining the sate of the world.
Download or read book Indicators for Management of Planned Outages in Nuclear Power Plants written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by IAEA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planned outages are a main contributor to nuclear power plant (NPP) unavailability, risk and cost. Effective management of planned outages is a key factor for improvement of NPP safety, availability and competitiveness. To support outage management an outage monitoring system is implemented that follows all the fundamental and critical activities and deadlines in each phase of the outage. The IAEA has produced this publication on indicators for planned outage monitoring as a complement to a series of technical publications related to practices regarding outage management and cost effective maintenance. The aim of this publication is to provide guidelines for outage monitoring systems, examples of specific outage indicators and good practices in outage monitoring. This publication outlines a set of outage indicators that could be considered by operators of NPPs when establishing or revising their own specific outage indicator systems.
Download or read book Management Strategies for Nuclear Power Plant Outages written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by IAEA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this report is to identify good practices in outage management: outage planning and preparation, outage execution and post-outage review. The report aims to communicate these practices in a way that can be used by operating organizations and regulatory bodies in Member States.
Download or read book Nuclear Power Plant Outage Optimization Strategy written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear power plant outage management is a key factor for safe and economic nuclear power plant performance. This publication discusses plant outage strategy and how this strategy is actually implemented. The main areas that are important for outage optimization that were identified by the utilities and government organizations participating in this report are: 1) organization and management; 2) outage planning and preparation; 3) outage execution; 4) safety outage review; and 5) counter measures to avoid the extension of outages and to facilitate the work in forced outages. Good outage management practices cover many different areas of work and this publication aims to communicate these good practices in a way that they can be used effectively by operators and utilities.
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Download or read book Nuclear Power Plant Outage Optimization Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nuclear power plant outage management is a key factor for safe and economic nuclear power plant performance. This publication discusses plant outage strategy and how this strategy is actually implemented. The main areas that are important for outage optimization that were identified by the utilities and government organizations participating in this report are: (1) organization and management; (2) outage planning and preparation; (3) outage execution; (4) safety outage review; and (5) counter measures to avoid the extension of outages and to facilitate the work in forced outages. Good outage management practices cover many different areas of work and this publication aims to communicate these good practices in a way that they can be used effectively by operators and utilities."--Publisher's description.
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