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Using Risk Informed Asset Management For Feedwater System Preventative Maintenance Optimization
Using Risk Informed Asset Management For Feedwater System Preventative Maintenance Optimization
Ernest KEE , Alice SUN , Andrew RICHARDS , James LIMING , James SALTER &
Rick GRANTOM
To cite this article: Ernest KEE , Alice SUN , Andrew RICHARDS , James LIMING , James
SALTER & Rick GRANTOM (2004) Using Risk-Informed Asset Management for Feedwater System
Preventative Maintenance Optimization, Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 41:3, 347-353
TECHNICAL REPORT
The initial development of a South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company process for supporting preventative
maintenance optimization by applying the Balance-Of-Plant model and Risk-Informed Asset Management alpha-level
software applications is presented. Preventative maintenance activities are evaluated in the South Texas Project Risk-
Informed Asset Management software while the plant maintains or improves upon high levels of nuclear safety. In the
Balance-Of-Plant availability application, the level of detail in the feedwater system is enhanced to support plant de-
cision-making at the component failure mode and human error mode level of indenture by elaborating on the current
model at the super-component level of indenture. The enhanced model and modeling techniques are presented. Results
of case studies in feedwater system preventative maintenance optimization using plant-specific data are also presented.
KEYWORDS: risk-informed, preventative maintenance, preventive maintenance, availability modeling, risk,
asset management, life cycle management, work management system
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minimal cut sets, sets of basic events that lead to a top event Fig. 5 Mapping process from TPNS data distribution to super-
where all basic events in the set are essential, were computed component distribution
in Saphire and exported to BOPPP where reliability data are
assigned to the basic events. The process of incorporating
new events in the existing BOPPP fault tree model is illus- 4. Gather Plant-specific Data
trated in Figs. 4 and 5. Figure 5 shows how the failure dis- In general, we consider two types of reliability data, cur-
tribution for one super-component is parsed out into differ- tailing (generation impacting) events and non-curtailing
ent sub-components with different failure distributions. events. Non-curtailing event data come primarily from the
The BOPPP application includes modules to solve for CWMS, and curtailing event data primarily come from the
plant availability as well as a data module to maintain FM plant process computer. Historical non-curtailing reliability
reliability data. As reliability data are obtained during plant data for each TPNS is obtained by querying the CWMS da-
operation, the BOPPP data module is updated with the new tabase. For each query result, the data are reviewed ‘‘by
information. The BOPPP data module uses an ‘‘update by hand’’ to assign the failure mode and other data related to
exception’’ method making the data update process more ef- the maintenance activity. The types of data retrieved from
ficient by only requiring failure data. The equipment that op- the query are summarized in Table 1.
erates without failure is updated as well, but in those cases, Curtailing event data are taken from review of the plant
they are updated automatically with success over default ex- electrical generator output data recorded on the plant process
posure duration. The default exposure duration is part of the computer. These data are downloaded into a spreadsheet that
plant model data. Using the BOPPP data module, STPNOC is set up to find events where the power drops more than 2%
plant-specific distributions were created using DOE distribu- below the rated generator output for gross generator output.
tions for priors by updating them with plant-specific failure Each unit data element is screened individually. When a cur-
histories and repair times. tailing event is detected, the event data are brought into a
Source Name
STPNOC unit number
TPNS
System
ECO number
Data assigned from CWMS (query results) Maintenance type
Start date/time
Finish date/time
Activity description
Downtime
Data assigned from plant process computer Megawatt hour loss
Failure mode
Data assigned by analyst (by hand) NERC/GADS code
EPIX code
ative to that failure mode) or, nance. Table 3 provides general direction to the responsible
engineer to decide what kinds of changes should be consid-
PAW ¼ Pðq ¼ 0Þ=PðqÞ: ð8Þ
ered in order to maximize PM performance. For example,
where Pðq¼0Þ=profit if the event is always successful, the first entry in Table 3 is an item that has a high preventive
and maintenance ratio (PMR would normally be in the 0.60
PðqÞ=actual profit. range for most equipment) but has small effect on production
PRW for a specific TPNS failure mode is defined as the interruption (PAW is 1010 ) and would have small effect on
factor by which baseline predicted station profitability would production loss if more failures were experienced (PRW is
be multiplied if the TPNS failure mode were assumed to be 0.86).
continuously effective (that is, the associated component is Shown in Table 3 as well is an entry for an equipment that
always failed via the specified failure mode) or, has a PMR designated ‘‘N/A’’. These are examples of equip-
ment that have not had either preventive or corrective costs
PRW ¼ Pðq ¼ 1Þ=PðqÞ; ð9Þ
found in the CWMS. In these cases the responsible engineer
where Pðq¼1Þ=profit if the event is always failed. would determine if costs, failures and preventive data are be-
The concept of PRW is particularly valuable in evaluating ing assigned correctly.
PM effectiveness or the need for additional PM activity. It is The last entry in Table 3 is an example of an equipment
important to note that values of PRW can be negative when that has caused, or may cause, production loss (PAW is
predicted generation losses associated with the continuous 1.000014) but has low preventive maintenance performed
failure of specified equipment causes the station to no longer (PMR is 0.362) and, if allowed to have high unavailability,
be profitable (i.e., when predicted costs are greater than pre- would not cause a significant production loss (PRW is
dicted revenue). The FW system FM and TPNS CILs also 0.904). The responsible engineer would use this information
include links to information on future maintenance costs, to investigate ensuring preventive maintenance has been
for both corrective maintenance (CM) and PM, as well as properly considered and assigned for the equipment. In par-
previously evaluated predicted future safety impacts. A com- ticular, even though the equipment has a low contribution to
plete list of CILs is shown in Table 2. production loss (high PRW), the consequence of production
interruption is high (high PAW).
After the responsible engineer develops proposed changes
V. PMO Results
to the PM program following the guidelines described above,
Using the CILs, an identification and preliminary develop- the cost effectiveness of the changes is determined. The cost
ment of potential PM improvement options, including both effectiveness would be determined under the RIAM process
preventive and predictive (or condition-based) maintenance using as input changes to maintenance frequency and cost of
options, is performed. Next, the process involves an evalua- the recommended PM option(s). PM options determined to
tion of the projected net benefits (or return-on-investment be profitable would be recommend for implementation.
(ROI)) of the PM improvement options identified in phase
two. Then, taking into account plant budget constraints, safe-
VI. Conclusion
ty constraints, PM improvement option ‘‘packaging’’ evalu-
ations, and PM package ROI and NPV improvement predic- This project was performed primarily to develop and dem-
tions, a PM improvement optimization analysis will be per- onstrate a STPNOC process for supporting effective, effi-
formed. cient, and prudent PMO decision-making at the plant. Perla’s
Some of the results from the TPNS Reliability CIL are PMO process was enhanced via application of the concept of
shown in Table 3. A computer program was written so the PRW to critical items list development and associated deci-
individual user can set the high/low parameters for PAW, sion support.7) While this process was developed and demon-
PRW, and preventative maintenance ratio (PMR), which strated via the plant FW system, it is important to note that
would form the basis for the recommendations. PMR is de- optimizing PM only within the FW, or any subset of plant
fined as the ratio of preventive maintenance to total mainte- generation-supporting systems, could result in sub-optimiz-
Probability
of failure/
18 months PAW PMR PRW Recommendation
0.02275532 1E10 0.79 0.863 Reduce PM without
severely compromising reliability
0.03086359 1E10 N/A 0.863 Requires additional
evaluation
0.2885826 1.000014 0.36 0.904 Add or redesign PM
to better address
failures
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