The performance or service life prediction of building systems and their components is a very difficult and complex task. Though many technical papers related to aterial and component durability have been published over the past two decades, they had a negligible impact on the development of an effective approach for forecasting refurbishment and renewal expenditure.
Pumping sets are common but often critical operating assets in the industry. Such pumps often do not have adequate pressure and flow instrumentation that could detect abnormal hydraulic operating conditions. This paper presents field investigations of two submerged vertical pumps with suspected cavitation and flow induced vibrations in a power plant. These pumps had a history of catastrophic impeller failures.
This paper presents the details and difficulties on asset management process of power apparatus used in power network. The actual condition of power apparatus is far more important than its age. The regulatory and market forces in the current competitive energy market that are challenging the electric utility require more proactive methods of utility asset management.
Centrifugal pumps are one of the world’s most widely used type of pump, having an extensive range of applications, from food processing to water or sewage transportation. Problems that arise within these machines decrease the flow of the fluid within the pipelines, thus interrupting the production and transport of the fluid to its destination within the process.
The State Water Total Asset Management Plan (TAMP) documents the background, principles, processes, information and outcomes of its total asset management strategy. The TAMP provides a strategic context for present and future decision-making on asset management, encompassing risk, financial, environmental, heritage, levels of service for water delivery and engineering issues.
A number of research papers and commercial products are now available to provide asset management plans for water pipeline networks. These include the ABLE system developed by O’Hagan in the UK, which uses a combination of Bayesian methods and sampling to determine projected costs and the KANEW system developed by Deb, Hasit, Grablutz and Herz in the USA, which provides estimates of the length of pipeline that should be replaced each year.