TY - GEN
T1 - Prognostics and life beyond 60 years for nuclear power plants
AU - Bond, Leonard J.
AU - Ramuhalli, Pradeep
AU - Tawfik, Magdy S.
AU - Lybeck, Nancy J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Safe, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy supply is vital for advanced and industrialized life styles. To meet growing energy demand there is interest in longer-term operation for the existing nuclear power plant fleet and enhancing capabilities in new build. There is increasing use of condition-based maintenance for active components and growing interest in deploying on-line monitoring instead of periodic in-service inspection for passive systems. Opportunities exist to move beyond monitoring and diagnosis based on pattern recognition and anomaly detection to prognostics with the ability to provide an estimate of remaining useful life. The adoption of digital I&C systems provides a framework within which added functionality including on-line monitoring can be deployed, and used to maintain and even potentially enhance safety, while at the same time improving planning and reducing both operations and maintenance costs.
AB - Safe, secure, reliable, and sustainable energy supply is vital for advanced and industrialized life styles. To meet growing energy demand there is interest in longer-term operation for the existing nuclear power plant fleet and enhancing capabilities in new build. There is increasing use of condition-based maintenance for active components and growing interest in deploying on-line monitoring instead of periodic in-service inspection for passive systems. Opportunities exist to move beyond monitoring and diagnosis based on pattern recognition and anomaly detection to prognostics with the ability to provide an estimate of remaining useful life. The adoption of digital I&C systems provides a framework within which added functionality including on-line monitoring can be deployed, and used to maintain and even potentially enhance safety, while at the same time improving planning and reducing both operations and maintenance costs.
KW - material degradation
KW - materials damage prognostics
KW - nuclear power
KW - on-line monitoring
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053652476&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICPHM.2011.6024316
DO - 10.1109/ICPHM.2011.6024316
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053652476
SN - 9781424498260
T3 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management, PHM 2011 - Conference Proceedings
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management, PHM 2011 - Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management, PHM 2011
Y2 - 20 June 2011 through 23 June 2011
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