Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to ascertain overall system health and maintenance needs with degree of certainty using condition‐monitoring data with hierarchical fuzzy inference system. Design/methodology/approach – In process plants, equipment condition is ascertained using...

Purpose – This paper aims to prioritize preventive maintenance actions on process equipment by evaluating the risk associated with failure modes using predictive maintenance data instead of maintenance history alone. Design/methodology/approach – In process plants, maintenance task...

In this paper, we propose a hybrid method to evaluate reliability of large and complex networks that incorporates the best features of earlier techniques such as KDH88 and CAREL. The present method combines CAREL’s COMpare and REDuce operators along with KDH88 and eliminates the use of the...

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Two-phase flow of pure chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants in solar collector tubes has been examined in previous studies in connection with applications in direct-expansion, solar-assisted heat pumps (DX-SAHP). The present work extends the thermodynamic analysis of solar collectors to the...