Reliability growth analysis tailored for continuous process plants

Abstract

Traditional equipment-centric approach to conduct Reliability Growth Analysis (RGA) cannot be used in as-is condition in a continuous process plant. Part of this is owing to deficiencies in failure information. But mostly this is due to some special considerations typical of the operating environment of a continuous process plant. In this paper we have proposed and elaborated a practical, system-centric methodology that has taken into account all such considerations and ultimately factored them into the calculation process.