3. Scheduled maintenance
Maintenance operations on any industrial plant can be divided into two categories:
palliative maintenance (repair strictly in response to damage);
preventive maintenance (repairs carried out before damage occurs and scheduled according to a method for assessing the degradation of the weakened part).
This paragraph explains why sophisticated methods are used to determine preventive maintenance operations on combined-cycle power plants, but mainly on combustion turbines.
Combustion turbines, whether installed as stand-alone units or in combined-cycle power plants, are designed to generate peak or semi-base load energy, or even to back-up the power grid. As such, they need to be up and running quickly, which places high thermomechanical demands on the...
Exclusive to subscribers. 97% yet to be discovered!
Already subscribed? Log in!
Scheduled maintenance
Operating phases
Article included in this offer
"Energy resources and storage"
(
208 articles
)
Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees
A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources
