Effect of test-caused degradation on the unavailability of standby safety componentsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Nuclear engineering and technology : an international journal of the Korean Nuclear Society, ISSN 1738-5733, E-ISSN 2234-358X
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Abstract [en]
This paper proposes a safety-critical standby component unavailability model that contains aging effects caused by the elapsed time from installation, component degradation due to surveillance tests, and imperfect maintenance actions. An application of the model to a Motor-Operated Valve and a Motor-Driven Pump involved in the HPIS of a VVER/1000-V446 nuclear power plant is demonstrated and compared with other existing models at component and system levels. In addition, the effects of different unavailability models are reflected in the NPP's risk criterion, i.e., core damage frequency, over five maintenance periods. The results show that, compared with other models that do not simultaneously consider the full effects of degradation and maintenance impacts, the proposed model realistically evaluates the unavailabilities of the safety-related components and the involved systems as a plant age function. Therefore, it can effectively reflect the age-dependent CDF impact of a given testing and maintenance policy in a specified time horizon.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Korean Nuclear Society , 2023.
Keywords [en]
Age-dependent unavailability, Imperfect maintenance, Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA), Standby-related failure rate, Test-caused degradation
National Category
Other Civil Engineering
Research subject
Operation and Maintenance Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-102428DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2023.10.029Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85175659005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-102428DiVA, id: diva2:1811436
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Full text license: CC BY
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