10 MWe Solar Thermal Central Receiver Pilot Plant: Solar Facilities Design Integration. Pilot Plant Availability

摘要

In determining availability, only functional components of the subsystem that are unavailable to perform their required functions due to component failure (component forced outage) and due to planned maintenance (component planned outage) are taken into account. Support equipment, such as site structures (i.e., receiver tower), facility service equipment (i.e., service trucks and cranes), operations control (i.e., computer software), and passive components (i.e., piping), are assumed to be functional 100% of the time the pilot plant is in operation. Availability analysis of this kind of support equipment is beyond the scope of this report. The Beam Characterization Subsystem is not included in this availability analysis and the availability of the Collector Subsystem is assumed to be the assigned value. (ERA citation 10:051166)