Improved FBD and RBD generation for system reliability assessment

M. Venzi, S. Rossin, C. Michelassi, C. Accillaro, M. Catelani, L. Ciani

Abstract

This paper is focused on Reliability Block Diagram generation with the aim of providing a reliability prediction in the early stages of Oil&Gas product development, in particular for gas turbine auxiliary systems. Reliability assessment is achieved with a dedicated tool named RBDesigner that semi-automatically generates a RBD starting from the sketch of thermal-hydraulic systems and provides the most important reliability parameters.<br />Furthermore this paper shows a new approach to assessing reliability of standby redundancy architectures that are widely used in Oil&Gas applications.

Keywords

Reliability assessment, Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Oil & Gas applications, Gas turbine auxiliary systems, Standby redundancy architecture, Cold standby, Warm standby

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