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Performability of solar thermal power plant under reliability characteristics

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The present paper deals with the study of the solar thermal power plant with the help of Markov process by the consideration of different failure and repairable facilities. A probabilistic model of the system has been developed through considering some assumptions. Authors have considered three types of failures such as equipment failure, non-availability of fluid and environmental failure. The present system under the study, consists of three possible states: good, degraded (partially failed) and completely failed state. Using supplementary variable technique and Markov process, a successful attempt has been made to evaluate the probability of each state and various important performance measures. Finally; some numerical examples and graphically representation are shown at the end.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248002, India

    Nupur Goyal & Mangey Ram

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248002, India

    Ajay Kaushik

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Goyal, N., Ram, M. & Kaushik, A. Performability of solar thermal power plant under reliability characteristics. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 8, 479–487 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-016-0452-0

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