Behavioural analysis of urea decomposition system in a fertiliser plant

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-297

  Sharma, S P ^a   Garg, Harish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Availability; Fuzzy sets; Lambda Tau methodology; Maintainability; Petri nets; PNs; Reliability

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; MAINTAINABILITY; PETRI NETS; RELIABILITY; UREA;

DESIGN MODIFICATIONS; EXPECTED NUMBER OF FAILURES; LAMBDA-TAU METHODOLOGIES; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; MINIMAL CUTS AND PATH SETS; RELIABILITY , AVAILABILITY AND MAINTAINABILITIES; RELIABILITY PARAMETERS; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960831406     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2011.041539     Document Type: Article

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