Optimal Reliability Design of Process Systems |
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| Authors: | Inoue Koichi Gandhi S. L. Henley Ernest J. |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Tex.; Department of Precision Mechanics, Kyoto University, Japan.; |
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| Abstract: | The optimal design of system reliability which takes into account the quantitative aspect of systems throughput or capacity is proposed. It is based on the concept of an r-out-of-n configuration instead of the conventional parallel 1-out-of-n configuration and is especially suitable for treating problems which arise in process systems. The problem is solved by the pseudo-Boolean programming method of Lawler and Bell. |
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