the whole system. The reliability and availability analysis of BCHP system is helpful to the designer to decide the … availability and the MTBF (mean time to failure) of the redundant and non-redundant BCHP systems are deduced and analyzed … respectively. Then, a numerical case for the reliability analysis of the redundant and non-redundant BCHP systems is compared to …

reliability increases cost, but the increase of can be justified for users needing more reliability. …

The present study examined unit roots, causality, cointegration, and efficiency of the natural gas market using the … Northwest US natural gas markets as a case study. The results indicate that the natural gas market prices are stationary after … spot prices for contracts greater than one year to maturity. There are no arbitrages opportunities for daily market prices …

and use of energy and exergy based performance criteria, and of the Second Law efficiency, with an aim at the advancement …Performance criteria, such as efficiencies and coefficients of performance, for energy systems, are commonly used but …

the new proposed MOS (Model Output Statistics) method and to describe its performance in validation of the wind forecasts …

availabilities are reflected in an increase in second law efficiency with increasing load. The dual fuel cumulative work availability … syngas increases the cumulative work availability and reduces the destroyed availability. This enhancement is due to a better …-cylinder combustion temperatures are reduced in case of the dual fuel combustion. Hence, the destruction availability is increased due to …

The debate over the availability of conventional natural gas has been nearly as strong as that for conventional oil. In … availability of natural gas in the region. This is done by estimating a cumulative availability curve showing natural gas endowment …

Availability analysis is applied to cylinder of a spark ignition engine during the combustion process under surrogate … also highlighted. During the combustion process, the availability destroyed by combustion is about 18.9%, and the … availability destroyed by the heat transfer is about 12.0%. The survey also reveals that during the whole combustion process …

operational performance and availability based on risk concepts. The second step involves the proposal of a potential maintenance … policy that could be applied to critical equipment in order to increase its availability. The costs associated with each … redundant oil pump is proposed for lubricating oil system availability improvement. …

-law efficiency, due to fundamental differences in the mechanism of entropy generation during combustion with respect to the usual … gas combusting in a diesel engine cylinder. The terms of the availability balance during engine operation are studied as a …