TY - JOUR
T1 - Preventive maintenance scheduling of multi-cogeneration plants using integer programming
AU - Alardhi, M.
AU - Labib, Ashraf
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Maintenance scheduling of cogeneration plants, which produce both electric power and desalinated water, is a typical complex process with long-term operations and planning problems. The plants’ maintenance scheduling process has to determine the appropriate schedule for preventive maintenance, while satisfying all the system constraints and maintaining adequate system availability. It is an optimization problem and the maintenance and system constraints include the crew constraint, maintenance window constraint and time limitation constraint. In this paper, an integer linear-programming model, which has been developed, is described which schedules the preventive maintenance tasks in a multi-cogeneration plant. Results of a test example of such a plant situated in Kuwait are presented to show the applicability of the approach.
AB - Maintenance scheduling of cogeneration plants, which produce both electric power and desalinated water, is a typical complex process with long-term operations and planning problems. The plants’ maintenance scheduling process has to determine the appropriate schedule for preventive maintenance, while satisfying all the system constraints and maintaining adequate system availability. It is an optimization problem and the maintenance and system constraints include the crew constraint, maintenance window constraint and time limitation constraint. In this paper, an integer linear-programming model, which has been developed, is described which schedules the preventive maintenance tasks in a multi-cogeneration plant. Results of a test example of such a plant situated in Kuwait are presented to show the applicability of the approach.
U2 - 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602386
DO - 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602386
M3 - Article
SN - 0160-5682
VL - 59
SP - 503
EP - 509
JO - Journal of the Operational Research Society
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
ER -