First Experiences Of ISFOC In The Maintenance Of CPV Plants

摘要

ISFOC CPV Plants are now working in normal operation, so ISFOC is beginning with the Maintenance. Like a first approximation, we have analyzed the incidences in the Energy generation. This analysis results that the tracker is the most vulnerable element of the installation, what it is reasonable, because it is the only mechanical element. In this business, the corrective actions for the Maintenance are very expensive; therefore it is mandatory to define a good policy for the Preventive Maintenance. With this idea, ISFOC is implementing Industrial tools (SCP) to control the Energy generation in order to maintain the Plants operating at its full potential. In this paper, we present the approach we are making to adapt the method to measure the energy generated by the concentrators and how the control charts can be used to organize the Preventive Maintenance actions. Finally, the first results are presented, where we show the potential of this method to organize the Maintenance at the same time we have initial calculations for the availability of the plants obtained with this method.