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Billing, P. J. "Computer simulation of plant operation for use in process operator training." Thesis, University of Bath, 1988. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760584.
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Dang, Vinh Ngoc. "Modeling operator cognition for accident sequence analysis : development of an operator-plant simulation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10885.
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Cabahug, Ruel R. "A profile for classifying plant operator maintenance proficiency." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289580.
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D'Angelo, Elizabeth Marcela Alonso. "Software requirements for a nuclear plant operator advisor, the SIPO case study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq29237.pdf.
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DeVita-Cochrane, Cynthia Catherine. "Personality Factors and Nuclear Power Plant Operators: Initial License Success." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1884.
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Commercial nuclear power utilities are under pressure to effectively recruit and retain licensed reactor operators in light of poor candidate training completion rates and recent candidate failures on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license exam. One candidate failure can cost a utility over $400,000, making the successful licensing of new operators a critical path to operational excellence. This study was designed to discover if the NEO-PI-3, a 5-factor measure of personality, could improve selection in nuclear utilities by identifying personality factors that predict license candidate success. Two large U.S. commercial nuclear power corporations provided potential participant contact information and candidate results on the 2014 NRC exam from their nuclear power units nation-wide. License candidates who participated (n = 75) completed the NEO-PI-3 personality test and results were compared to 3 outcomes on the NRC exam: written exam, simulated operating exam, and overall exam result. Significant correlations were found between several personality factors and both written and operating exam outcomes on the NRC exam. Further, a regression analysis indicated that personality factors, particularly Conscientiousness, predicted simulated operating exam scores. The results of this study may be used to support the use of the NEO-PI-3 to improve operator selection as an addition to the current selection protocol. Positive social change implications from this study include support for the use of a personality measure by utilities to improve their return-on-investment in candidates and by individual candidates to avoid career failures. The results of this study may also positively impact the public by supporting the safe and reliable operation of commercial nuclear power utilities in the United States.
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Widiputri, Diah Indriani. "Incorporating human factors into process plant lifecycle." Doctoral thesis, Technische Universitaet Bergakademie Freiberg Universitaetsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola", 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:105-qucosa-74469.
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Major accidents in the process industries occurred mostly as an outcome of multiple failures in different safety barriers and their interrelation with unsafe acts by frontline operators. This has become the reason why safety analyses in terms of plant technical aspects cannot be performed independently from analysing human response to the changing technology. Unsafe acts and errors by operators must be seen as a symptom of system insufficiencies and underlying problems, rather than as the cause of an accident. With this paradigm, the need to optimally configure the system and the whole working condition to understand human’s limitation and requirements becomes very evident. It is too naive to desire that human operators make zero error by asking them to change their behaviour and to perfectly adapt to the system. Human Factors (HF) attempts to cope with the need to understand the interrelation between human operators, the technology they are working with and the management system, with the aim to increase safety and efficiency. In achieving this goal, HF must be incorporated into the whole plant lifecycle, from the earliest design stage to plant operation and modifications. Moreover, HF analysis must comprise all kinds of operators’ activities and responsibilities in operating process plants, which can include manual works in field and supervisory control conducted remotely from a control centre/room. This work has developed techniques that provide systematic way to incorporate HF into process plant lifecycle. The new HF analysis technique, PITOPA-Design, in a combination with the classic PITOPA, is applicable for an implementation during design and operation of a plant. With the awareness that safety analysis and HF cannot be performed separately, an interconnection with HAZOPs is made possible by means of this new technique. Moreover, to provide a systematic analysis of operators’ work in control room, an additional technique, the PITOPA-CR was also developed. This HF technique can as well be integrated into a general HF analysis both during design phase and plant operation. In addition to it, results coming from PITOPA-CR will provide information required to optimally configure control and alarm system, as well as the whole alarm management system to better understand the limitation and requirements of control room operators. The structure of the development can be described as follows: i) Development of HAZOPA (the Hazards and Operator Actions Analysis), which provides the interconnection between HF analysis and HAZOPs, ii) Development of PITOPA-Design, a technique to incorporate HF consideration into design phase, which is differentiated into 3 stages to comprise the conceptual design, the basic engineering and the detail engineering phase, iii) Development of PITOPA-CR, a technique for HF analysis in control room, iv) Integration of PITOPA-CR into alarm management system, development of a technique for alarm prioritizationSchwere Unfälle in der Prozessindustrie erfolgen meist aus einem Zusammenspiel mehrerer verschiedener Fehler und der gleichzeitigen Wechselwirkung mit falschem menschlichem Handeln. Dabei sind diese Fehlhandlungen nicht als Unfallursache anzusehen, sondern sie resultieren aus Fehlern, die in dem System selbst zu finden sind. Aus diesem Grund kann bei der Sicherheitsanalyse die technische Analyse nicht unabhängig von der Betrachtung des Human Factors (HF) durchgeführt werden. Um eine Reduzierung der Fehlhandlungen zu erreichen, müssen das Anlagendesign, die Bedienbarkeit und die Arbeitsumgebung an die menschlichen Fähigkeiten angepasst werden. Human Factors (HF) betrachtet die Interaktion zwischen menschlichen, technischen und organisatorischen Aspekten einer Anlage, mit dem Ziel die Sicherheit und Effektivität der Anlage zu optimieren. Dafür ist eine Einbindung von HF in den gesamten Lebenszyklus einer Anlage notwendig. So müssen HF- Analysen nicht nur während des Betriebs einer Anlage und bei Prozessmodifikationen durchgeführt werden, sondern auch während des gesamten Design- Prozesses, da gerade in den frühen Design-Phasen das Optimierungspotential besonders hoch ist. Eine solche Analysemethode muss alle Aufgaben eines Operators erfassen, so dass zwischen manueller Arbeit und der Arbeit in der Leitwarte unterschieden werden muss. In dieser Arbeit wurden Analysentechniken entwickelt, die einen systematischen Ansatz zur Berücksichtigung des HF über den gesamten Lebenszyklus einer verfahrenstechnischen Anlage darstellen. Mit Hilfe der neuen Analysemethode, PITOPA-Design, können Untersuchungen sowohl während der Designphase als auch während des Betriebs einer Anlage durchgeführt werden. Da solche HF-Analyse immer in Verbindung mit einer klassischen Sicherheitsanalyse erfolgen muss, bindet die neue Methode die HAZOP-Analyse direkt ein. Darüber hinaus wurde ein weiterer Ansatz für die Analyse von Operatorhandlungen in einer Messwartenarbeit entwickelt. Diese neue Analysentechnik, PITOPA-CR, bildet die Grundlage für Verbesserungen im Alarmsystem und wird in das Alarmmanagementsystem eingebunden. Die Arbeit ist wie folgt strukturiert: i) Entwicklung von HAZOPA (the Hazards and Operator Actions Analysis). Diese Methode stellt die Einbindung der HF-Analyse in HAZOP dar. ii) Entwicklung von PITOPA-Design, zur HF-Analyse während des gesamten Designprozesses einer verfahrenstechnischen Anlage. Die Methode wurde in 3 Teile eingeteilt, um die drei Designsphasen Conceptual-, Basic-, und Detail-Design zu erfassen. iii) Entwicklung von PITOPA-CR, zur HF-Analyse in der Messwarte. iv) Einbindung von PITOPA-CR in das Alarmmanagementsystem und Entwicklung einer Technik zur Alarmpriorisierung
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Lee, Ji Hyun. "Development of a Tool to Assist the Nuclear Power Plant Operator in Declaring a State of Emergency Based on the Use of Dynamic Event Trees and Deep Learning Tools." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543069550674204.
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Mubeen, Faizalam Junaid. "The bounded H∞ calculus for sectorial, strip-type and half-plane operators." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6bff352d-f858-492a-a00b-3a3dd2049b5c.
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The main study of this thesis is the holomorphic functional calculi for three classes of unbounded operators: sectorial, strip-type and half-plane. The functional calculus for sectorial operators was introduced by McIntosh as an extension of the Riesz-Dunford model for bounded operators. More recently Haase has developed an abstract framework which incorporates analogous constructions for strip-type and half-plane operators. These operators are of interest since they arise naturally as generators of C0-(semi)groups. The theory of bounded H∞-calculus for sectorial operators is well established and it has been found to have many applications in operator theory and parabolic evolution equations. We survey these known results, first on Hilbert space and then on general Banach space. Our main goal is to fill the gaps in the parallel theory for strip-type operators. Whilst some of this can be deduced by taking exponentials and applying known results for sectorial operators, in general this is insu_cient to obtain our desired results and so we pursue an independent approach. Starting on Hilbert space, we broaden known characterisations of the bounded H∞-calculus for strip-type operators by introducing a notion of absolute calculus which is an analogue to the established notion for the sectorial case. Moving to general Banach space, we build on the work of Vörös, broadening his characterisation for strip-type operators in terms of weak integral estimates by introducing a new, but equivalent, notion of the bounded H∞-calculus, which we call the m-bounded calculus. We also demonstrate that these characterisations fail for half-plane operators and instead present a weaker form of the bounded H-calculus which is more natural for these operators. This allows us to obtain new and simple proofs of well known generation theorems due to Gomilko and Shi-Feng, with extensions to polynomially bounded semigroups. The connection between the bounded H-calculus of semigroup generators and polynomial boundedness of their associated Cayley Transforms is also explored. Finally we present a series of results on sums of operators, in connection with maximal regularity. We also establish stability results for the bounded H∞-calculus for strip-type operators by showing it is preserved under suitable bounded perturbations, which at time requires further assumptions on the underlying Banach space. This relies heavily on intermediate characterisations of the bounded H∞-calculus due to Kalton and Weis.
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Doležal, Tomáš. "Business Plan: The Development and Operation of Biomass Power Plant." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-125031.
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The goals of this thesis are to create a comprehensive business plan manual from various business plan frameworks and to clarify project documentation necessary for the commencement of the biomass power plant. The theoretical part serves to the reader as a manual, how to write a business plan. In each section the thesis lists necessary questions to be answered, the theory and the recommendations what to include in the business plan. The practical part represents a complete business plan of the development and op-eration of the biomass power plant with focus on the political analysis, key resources and financial analysis. In the end of the thesis the investment decision criteria are pre-sented together with the risks analysis, providing a solid information base upon which a potential investor can decide, whether to invest into the project.
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Onyenanu, Tochukwu Emmanuel. "An improved maintenance management strategy for gas field equipment in Escravos gas–to–liquid plant, Nigeria / T.E. Onyenanu." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4894.
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The safety record of most petrochemical industries in the world and Nigeria in particle, has not been able to come down to the maximum allowable range of 0 - 0.1 percent of tolerance on recordable injuries, due to increasing failure rates of equipment within the plant. Investigations on the maintenance audit carried out on the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) revealed that 85 percent of such failures are directly linked to improper adaptability of an effective maintenance management strategy and plan within the petrochemical industries in Nigeria.
Equally, the growth and continuous operation of any plant depends to a large extent on the maintenance of the equipment that refines the Crude Oil and natural Gas. As such, various maintenance management systems have been used over the years for the actualisation of the above purpose but with minimal success. This is evident in the fact that the level of maintenance performance of most Nigerian Petroleum Companies is always on the corrective maintenance model, which indirectly implies that the plant normally breaks down before maintenance management is applied.
A critical look at the deficiency of improper adaptability of these maintenance management plans have conspicuously manifested in five major categories of maintenance failures which includes the following;
* Failure of safety critical equipment due to lack of maintenance
* Human error during maintenance
* Static or spark discharge during maintenance in an intrinsically unsafe zone
* Incompetence of maintenance staff, and
* Poor communication between maintenance and production staff.
These gaps as identified in this research must be corrected in the Nigerian Gas Industry if meaningful progress is to be made.
Gas – To – Liquid technology is a very complex technology and with natural gas as the basic raw material, the technology not only looks intimidating but also is full of potential hazards. People are naturally afraid of the complex nature of gas in a confined environment (because of its highly combustible nature), its gaseous state makes it more complex for it to be kept under control and at the same time be moved from one form to another at different temperatures and pressures.
The maintenance audit carried out on the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) revealed some major loopholes in the maintenance management strategies adopted in the country. The audit reveals that the degree of adherence to conditions attached towards the maintenance management strategy of this equipment (in this case Gas field equipment) was too poor.
Based on the above, this research is meant to improve the existing maintenance management strategy, by developing a Maintenance Management Strategy (MMS) that will be suitable for gas field equipment in the Escravos Gas–To– Liquid (EGTL) plant, planned to be commissioned in Nigeria early 2011.
The need to research the above mentioned Maintenance Strategy became imperative due to the fact that the rate at which most of the petrochemical plants in the world are being gutted by fire, mainly due to poor maintenance management systems is alarming.
This research work proffered solutions that will reduce or completely eliminate the highlighted problems above. This was based on investigations and analysis carried out in the chosen research area.
Models were developed for the actualization of this Improved Maintenance Management Strategy (IMMS), so that the desired safe operability of the gas field equipment in the Escravos Gas–To– Liquid (EGTL) plant will be achieved without maintenance failure of any kind.Thesis (M.Ing. (Development and Management Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Rosso, Stefano. "Power Plant Operation Optimization Economic dispatch of combined cycle power plants." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264350.
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As electricity production from renewable sources increases, higher flexibility is required by fossil fuel generation to cope with the inherent fluctuations of solar and wind power. This results in shorter operating cycles and steeper ramps for the turbines, and more uncertainty for the operators. This thesis work applies mathematical optimization and statistical learning to improve the economic dispatch of a combined cycle power plant composed by two separate blocks of two gas turbines and one steam turbine. The goal is to minimize the input fuel to the gas turbines while respecting a series of constraints related to the demand the plant faces, power generation limits etc. This is achieved through the creation of a mathematical model of the plant that regulates how the plant can operate. The model is then optimized to reduce fuel consumption at a minimum. Machine learning techniques have been applied to sensor data from the plant itself to realistically simulate the behavior of the turbines. Input-Output curves have been obtained for power and exhaust heat generation of all the turbines using ordinary least squares on monthly data with a ten minutes sampling rate. The model is cross-validated and proven statistically valid. The optimization problem is formulated through generalized disjunctive programming in the form of a mixed-integer linear problem (MILP) and solved using a branch-and-bound algorithm. The output of the model is a one-week dispatch, in fifteen minutes intervals, carried out for two months in total. Lower fuel consumption is achieved using the optimization model, with a weekly reduction of fuel consumed in the range of 2-4%. A sensitivity analysis and a correlation matrix are used to highlights the demand and the maximum available capacity as critical parameters. Results show that the most efficient machines (alternatively, the ones with highest available capacity) should be operated at maximum load while still striving for an efficient utilization of the exhaust gas.När elproduktionen från förnybara källor ökar krävs högre flexibilitet av fossil bränsleproduktion för att hantera fluktuationerna från sol- och vindkraft. Detta resulterar i kortare driftscykler och brantare ramper för turbinerna och mer osäkerhet för operatörerna. Detta avhandlingsarbete tillämpar matematisk optimering och statistisk inlärning för att förbättra det ekonomiska utnyttjandet av en kombicykel i ett kraftverk som består av två separata block med två gasturbiner och en ångturbin. Målet är att minimera bränsleförbrukningen hos gasturbinerna samtidigt som man tar hänsyn till en serie av villkor relaterade till efterfrågan som anläggningen står inför, kraftproduktionsbegränsningar etc. Detta uppnås genom skapandet av en matematisk modell för anläggningen som reglerar hur anläggningen kan fungera. Modellen är sedan optimerad för minsta möjliga bränsleförbrukning. Maskinteknik har använts på sensor data från själva anläggningen för att realistiskt simulera turbinernas beteende. In och utdata kurvor har erhållits för kraftproduktion och avgasvärmeproduktion med hjälp av ordinary least squares (OLS) med månads data och med en tio minuters samplingshastighet. Modellen är korsvaliderad och bevisad statistiskt giltig. Optimeringsproblemet formuleras genom en generaliserad disjunktiv programmering i form av ett mixed-integer linear problem (MILP) och löses med hjälp av en Branch-and-Bound algoritm. Resultatet från modellen är en veckas värden, med femton minuters intervall, totalt i två månader. Lägre bränsleförbrukning uppnås med hjälp av optimeringsmodellen, med en vecka minskad bränsleförbrukning i intervallet 2-4%. En känslighetsanalys och en korrelationsmatris används för att visa efterfrågan och den maximala tillgängliga kapaciteten som kritiska parametrar. Resultaten visar att de mest effektiva maskinerna (alternativt de med högsta tillgängliga kapacitet) bör drivas med maximal belastning medan de fortfarande strävar efter ett effektivt utnyttjande av avgaserna.
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Hansson, Erik. "Temporal Task and Motion Plans: Planning and Plan Repair : Repairing Temporal Task and Motion Plans Using Replanning with Temporal Macro Operators." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Artificiell intelligens och integrerade datorsystem, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152722.
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This thesis presents an extension to the Temporal Fast Downward planning system that integrates motion planning in it and algorithms for generating two types of temporal macro operators expressible in PDDL2.1. The extension to the Temporal Fast Downward planning system includes, in addition to the integration of motion planning itself, an extension to the context-enhanced additive heuristic that uses information from the motion planning part to improve the heuristic estimate. The temporal macro operators expressible in PDDL2.1 are, to the author's knowledge, an area that is not studied within the context of plan repair before. Two types of temporal macro operators are presented along with algorithms for automatically constructing and using them when solving plan repair problems by replanning. Both the heuristic extension and the temporal macro operators were evaluated in the context of simulated unmanned aerial vehicles autonomously executing reconnaissance missions to identify targets and avoiding threats in unexplored areas. The heuristic extension was proved to be very helpful in the scenario. Unfortunately, the evaluation of the temporal macro operators indicated that the cost of introducing them is higher than the gain of using them for the scenario.
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Hassan, Mohamed Elhafiz. "Power Plant Operation Optimization : Unit Commitment of Combined Cycle Power Plants Using Machine Learning and MILP." Thesis, mohamed-ahmed@siemens.com, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-395304.
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In modern days electric power systems, the penetration of renewable resources and the introduction of free market principles have led to new challenges facing the power producers and regulators. Renewable production is intermittent which leads to fluctuations in the grid and requires more control for regulators, and the free market principle raises the challenge for power plant producers to operate their plants in the most profitable way given the fluctuating prices. Those problems are addressed in the literature as the Economic Dispatch, and they have been discussed from both regulator and producer view points. Combined Cycle Power plants have the privileges of being dispatchable very fast and with low cost which put them as a primary solution to power disturbance in grid, this fast dispatch-ability also allows them to exploit price changes very efficiently to maximize their profit, and this sheds the light on the importance of prices forecasting as an input for the profit optimization of power plants. In this project, an integrated solution is introduced to optimize the dispatch of combined cycle power plants that are bidding for electricity markets, the solution is composed of two models, the forecasting model and the optimization model. The forecasting model is flexible enough to forecast electricity and fuel prices for different markets and with different forecasting horizons. Machine learning algorithms were used to build and validate the model, and data from different countries were used to test the model. The optimization model incorporates the forecasting model outputs as inputs parameters, and uses other parameters and constraints from the operating conditions of the power plant as well as the market in which the plant is selling. The power plant in this mode is assumed to satisfy different demands, each of these demands have corresponding electricity price and cost of energy not served. The model decides which units to be dispatched at each time stamp to give out the maximum profit given all these constraints, it also decides whether to satisfy all the demands or not producing part of each of them.
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Suryana, Rahmat [Verfasser]. "Optimal Operation of Wind Power Plants with Doubly-fed Induction Generators under Considerations to Network Operator Regulations / Rahmat Suryana." Aachen : Shaker, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1138177636/34.
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Eftekhari, M. M. "Optimal operation of an air-conditioning plant." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234946.
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Tsang, Chi-fai Ringo, and 曾志輝. "Operation reengineering in a medium-sized plant." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31266848.
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Tsang, Chi-fai Ringo. "Operation reengineering in a medium-sized plant /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B14708863.
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Han, L. Y. "Design strategy for flexible operation of process plant." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379242.
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Vasilyev, Vladimir. "Invertibility of a Class of Toeplitz Operators over the Half Plane." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200700157.
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This dissertation is concerned with invertibility and
one-sided invertibility of Toeplitz operators
over the half plane whose generating functions
admit homogenous discontinuities, and with
stability of their pseudo finite sections.
The invertibility criterium is given in terms
of invertibility of a family of one
dimensional Toeplitz operators with piecewise
continuous generating functions. The one-sided
invertibility criterium is given it terms of
constraints on the partial indices of certain
Toeplitz operator valued function.
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Martins, Ana Virginia Feitosa. "COST HEALTH PLAN OPERATORS MANAGEMENT:CASE STUDY." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16661.
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The public health service in Brazil provides a poor and not effective service for the people,
which in many cases, opting for private health plans. The sector is regulated by the National
Agency of Health imposing rigid rules for the operation of operators, increasing the demands
on the number of procedures required by the plans, but the adjustments of monthly, when
released, did not accompany the growth in costs. In order to investigate strategies that could
contribute to cost reduction in operating health plans, maintaining or even improving the
quality of services within a qualitative methodology of study of single cases, the data
collection instrument and semi -structured, in addition to the literature and documents. The
analysis of indicators of the study showed that the main strategies for reducing the costs of
operators are using the tertiary preventive medicine, called Home care and the coparcenary
users with value added to the tuition when using examinations and consultations. It can be
concluded that the analysis of strategies applied to operators of health plans, with positive
results.O serviÃo pÃblico de saÃde do Brasil fornece um atendimento precÃrio e nÃo eficaz à populaÃÃo, que, em muitos casos, opta pelos planos privados de saÃde. O setor à regulamentado pela AgÃncia Nacional de SaÃde que impÃe normas rÃgidas para o funcionamento das operadoras, aumentando as exigÃncias quanto ao nÃmero de procedimentos obrigatÃrios pelos planos, mas os reajustes das mensalidades, quando liberados, nÃo acompanham o crescimento dos custos. Com o intuito de investigar que estratÃgias poderÃo contribuir para a reduÃÃo de custos em operadoras de planos de saÃde, mantendo ou mesmo melhorando a qualidade dos serviÃos, dentro de uma metodologia qualitativa de estudo de casos Ãnico, o instrumento de coleta de dados e entrevista semiestruturada, alÃm da pesquisa bibliogrÃfica e documental. A anÃlise dos indicadores do estudo aponta que as estratÃgias principais para a reduÃÃo de custos das operadoras sÃo a utilizaÃÃo da Medicina preventiva terciÃria, denominada Home care, bem como a coparticipaÃÃo dos usuÃrios, com valores somados Ãs mensalidades, quando utilizam exames e consultas. Pode-se concluir que a anÃlise das estratÃgias aplicadas a operadoras de planos de saÃde, com resultados positivos, à um importante instrumento gerencial.
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Georgiadis, Michael. "Advanced optimisation of batch plant design and operation." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/7394.
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Sohel, Mohammed Imroz. "Thermodynamic Modelling and Simulation for High Efficiency Design and Operation of Geothermal Power Plants." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5292.
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This thesis analyses long term and short term environmental effects on geothermal power plant performance and discusses adaptive ways to improve performance. Mokai 1 geothermal power plant has been used as a case study for this investigation. Mokai 1 is a combined cycle plant where the binary cycles are air-cooled. The plant performance of an air-cooled binary cycle geothermal power plant is dependent on the environment (resource characteristics as well as weather conditions). For modelling such a power plant, two time scales are of interest: the yearly basis for aggregate plant performance for design and operations; and the daily basis for hourly plant performances for an accurate dispatch prediction.
Adaptive methodology for long term performance improvement has been introduced in this work which would save money and effort in the future by keeping the provisions to adapt to changes in resource characteristics based on geothermal reservoir modelling. The investigation was carried out using a steady state computer simulator of Mokai 1 geothermal power plant. The steady sate simulator was built specifically for this work. The deviation in performance of various components is less than 5% compared to the original plant design. The model is very generic and it can be used for other plants with simple adaptation or can be used for future plant design.
One of the main contributions of this work is an iterative method for modelling the environmental effect on short term performance on the air-cooled organic Rankine cycle. The ambient temperature is identified as the most influencing parameter on short term performance which influences the performance of the whole cycle in two ways. Firstly, by changing the equilibrium pressure inside the condenser, the turbine outlet pressure changes and hence, the turbine pressure ratio also changes. The turbine pressure ratio is a major parameter determining power generated by a turbine; therefore, the plant output is affected. Secondly, by changing the condenser outlet temperature with the ambient temperature, the pump inlet and outlet condition and consequently vaporizer equilibrium temperature and pressure are influenced. The developed method sought the equilibrium conditions of both condenser and vaporizer iteratively. In short, ORC cycle shifts on the T-s plane depending on the ambient temperature. This method iteratively seeks the shifted ORC on the T,s plane.
Two case studies have been carried out to demonstrate the method. The developed method shows robustness and converges exponentially. The model is effective for cycles that use saturated vapour as well as superheated vapour. The model essentially assumes steady state operation of the power cycle. The possible unit time where this model can be applied is bounded by the time required by a system to come into steady state. The saturated vapour cycle yielded average error 4.20% with maximum error 9.25% and the superheated vapour cycle yielded average error 2.12% with maximum error 5.60%. The main advantage of the developed method is that it requires a minimum number of inputs: condenser (p,T), vaporizer (p,T), condenser heat load, turbine efficiency (overall), pump work and the extremum conditions of all the components. These inputs should represent typical operating conditions of a plant. The model can predict the appropriate plant performance depending on the system heat input (geothermal fluid flow in this case) and the heat sink temperature. As the method is based on basic thermodynamics rather than empirical or semi-empirical approaches, this method is widely applicable. The main focus of this work is on the ORC but the developed method is applicable to any closed Rankine cycle. In addition, application of the developed iterative method to predict plant performance based on mean yearly weather data is also discussed in the thesis.
Water-augmented cooling system and optimization of plant operating point parameters have been proposed as adaptive measures to improve short term performance. Developed iterative method has been used for the short term performance analysis. The water-augmented cooling system is specifically suitable to mitigate the reduced power output during the summer. The simulated average gain in power during the summer (Jan, Feb, Nov and Dec) of an ORC of Mokai 1 geothermal power plant by incorporating a water-augmented cooling system was 2.3% and the average gain for the whole year was 1.6% based on the weather data of Taupo for the year 2005. A cost benefit analysis showed that water-augmented cooling system is more economical compared to other alternative renewable energies considered to meet summer peak demand. From the green house gas emissions perspective, water-augmented cooling is a better option than the gas fired peaking plants.
Adaptive approach for short term performance improvement by optimizing operating point parameters of an air-cooled binary cycle has huge potential with possible maximum improvement in power output by about 50%. The optimization takes in to account the effects of the geothermal resource characteristics and the weather conditions. The optimization is achieved by manipulating cycle mass flow rate and vaporizer equilibrium condition. Further study on the optimizing operating points to achieve improved short term performance has been recommended for future work.
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Bergan, Marius. "The design and evaluation of multimedia user interfaces in process control." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321183.
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Luo, Gang. "Development of a Digital Desk for Power Plant Control Room Operators." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-62353.
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Multi-touch technology and digital tabletops have been used in different fields. They provide a natural way of interaction with computers through gestures. In this report, we present a digital desk for power plant control rooms aimed at visualizing the power grid status. The thesis reports about the development of this desk that comprised field studies, use cases and requirements identification, low fidelity prototyping, and software development. A final evaluation of the design indicated that digital tabletops can be valuable for control room operators since they can enhance learning and communication among the collaborating operators. The work was done at ABB Corporate Research in Sweden.
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Spelling, James. "Steam Turbine Optimisation for Solar Thermal Power Plant Operation." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Kraft- och värmeteknologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-35386.
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The provision of a sustainable energy supply is one of the most important issues facing humanity at the current time, given the strong dependence of social and economic prosperity on the availability of affordable energy and the growing environmental concerns about its production. Solar thermal power has established itself as a viable source of renewable power, capable of generating electricity at some of the most economically attractive rates. Solar thermal power plants are based largely on conventional Rankine-cycle power generation equipment, reducing the technological risk involved in the initial investment. Nevertheless, due to the variable nature of the solar supply, this equipment is subjected to a greater range of operating conditions than would be the case in conventional systems. The necessity of maintaining the operational life of the steam-turbines places limits on the speed at which they can be started once the solar supply becomes available. However, in order to harvest as much as possible of the Sun’s energy, the turbines should be started as quickly as is possible. The limiting factor in start-up speed being the temperature of the metal within the turbines before start-up, methods have been studied to keep the turbines as warm as possible during idle-periods. A detailed model of the steam-turbines in a solar thermal power plant has been elaborated and validated against experimental data from an existing power plant. A dynamic system model of the remainder of the plant has also been developed in order to provide input to the steam-turbine model. Three modifications that could potentially maintain the internal temperature of the steam-turbines have been analysed: installation of additional insulation, increasing the temperature of the gland steam and use of external heating blankets. A combination of heat blankets and gland steam temperature increase was shown to be the most effective, with increases in electricity production of up to 3% predicted on an annual basis through increased availability of the solar power plant.Hållbar energiförsörjning är för närvarande en av de viktigaste frågorna för mänskligheten. Socialt och ekonomiskt välstånd är starkt kopplat till rimliga energipriser och hållbar energiproduktion. Koncentrerad solenergi är nu etablerad som en tillförlitlig källa av förnybar energi och är också ett ekonomiskt attraktivt alternativ. Koncentrerade solenergikraftverk bygger till stor del på konventionella Rankine-cykel elgeneratorer, vilka minskar de tekniskt relaterade riskerna i den initiala investeringen. På grund av solstrålningens skiftande karaktär utsätts denna utrustning för mer varierade driftsförhållanden, jämfört med konventionella system. Behovet av att bibehålla den operativa livslängden på ångturbiner sätter gränser för uppstartshastigheten. För att utnyttja så mycket som möjligt av solens energi bör ångturbinen startas så snabbt som möjligt när solstrålningen blir tillgänglig. Eftersom temperaturen i metalldelar hos turbinerna är den begränsande faktorn, har metoder studerats för att hålla turbinerna så varma som möjligt under tomgångsperioder. En detaljerad modell av ångturbiner i ett solenergikraftverk har utvecklats och validerats mot experimentella data från ett befintligt kraftverk. En dynamisk systemmodell av de övriga delarna av anläggningen har också utvecklats för att ge input till ångturbinsmodellen. Tre modifieringar som potentiellt kan bidra till att upprätthålla den inre temperaturen i ångturbiner har analyserats: montering av ytterligare isolering, ökning av temperaturen hos glänsångan och användning av elvärmefiltar. En kombination av elvärmefiltar och en temperaturökning av glänsångan visade sig vara det mest effektiva alternativet. Åtgärderna resulterade i en ökad elproduktion på upp till 3%, beräknat på årsbasis genom ökad tillgänglighet hos kraftverket.
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Tangås, Cecilie Magrethe. "Methods for providing heat to electric operated LNG plant." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for energi- og prosessteknikk, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-11094.
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Hammerfest LNG plant, located at Melkøya outside Hammerfest, is supplied with heat and power from an on-site combined heat and power (CHP-) plant. This natural gas fired CHP emits more than one million tons of CO2 per year, which makes it one of Norways largest point emissions. Melkøya is therefore of large interest when it comes to reducing the national CO2 emissions. Previous work has identified import of renewable electricity from the national grid to power the LNG plant as the most promising solution to reduction in the CO2 emissions from Melkøya.This report assesses different heat generation alternatives when co-generation is no longer applicable, in order to find the optimal solution for Melkøya, with respect to CO2 emission and operability. The most promising alternatives were subject to simulation, where CO2 emission, fuel/ power demand etc. were identified.Heat pumps are found to be the thermodynamically most favourable alternative. It is not able to cover the entire heat demand at Melkøya, but used in combination with other methods of heat generation, the result is significantly reduced fuel and power consumption, as well as CO2 emissions.Further investigation of use of heat pumps as heat providers at Melkøya is therefore recommended.
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Chukanova, E. "Modelling of screw compressor plant operation under intermittent conditions." Thesis, City, University of London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/15825/.
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Compressor plant frequently operates under unsteady conditions. This is due to pressure fluctuations, variable flow demand, or unsteady inlet conditions, as well as shaft speed variation. Also, following demand, compressor plants often work intermittently with frequent starts and stops. This may cause premature wear, decrease of compressor performance and even failure, which might cost millions of pounds to industry in downtime. However, there is still a lack of published data which describes intermittent plant behaviour, or predicts the effects of unsteady operation upon compressor plant performance. Thus, there appears to be a need to develop a mathematical model to calculate compressor plant performance during intermittent operating conditions and to verify this model with experimental data. Accordingly, this thesis describes an experimental and analytical study of screw compressor plant operating under unsteady conditions. For this purpose a one-dimensional model of the processes within a compressor was used, based on the differential equations of conservation of mass and energy, extended to include other plant components, such as storage tanks, control valves and connecting pipes. The model can simulate processes in both oil-free and oil-injected compressor plants during transient operation, including the effects of sudden changes in pressure, speed and valve area. Performance predictions obtained from the model gave good agreement with test results. This model can, therefore, be used to predict a variety of events, which may occur in everyday compressor plant operation.
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Williams, Christopher Michael S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The effects of variable operation on RO plant performance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68958.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Optimizations of reverse osmosis (RO) plants typically consider steady state operation of the plant. RO plants are subject to transient factors that may make it beneficial to produce more water at one time than at another. These factors can impact the optimal size of the plant. The electricity price is one factor of importance. When long periods of time are considered, other factors such as weather and seasonal water demand can influence the operation and size as well. With long-term operation, water storage is possibile. This thesis investigates the optimal time-varying operation and size of a single stage RO plant subject to a time-varying electricity price. A single stage RO model is modified to include a variable plant size controlled by the number of modules. The annual capital and operating expenses of the plant are calculated in an RO economics sub-model. In one study, the short-term (single day) operation and design are optimized to minimize the total annualized cost of the plant. The operation and size are optimized for four different electricity price functions: constant, moderately fluctuating, highly fluctuating, and actual electricity prices. The results show that significant savings (1-7%) are obtainable and optimal oversizing of 15% is chosen for the fluctuating electricity price functions considered therein. The plant produces more water when electricity is cheap, and shuts off during periods of high electricity price when oversized. The size and day-by-day operation are optimized for one year subject to Spain's electricity price. Little savings and oversizing are obtainable for the day-by-day optimization due to low fluctuations in the electricity price during the year. In a second study, the long-term (one year) operation with storage of product water is optimized to minimize the cumulative cost of reclaiming the water from the reservoir and/or of the electricity. The operation is optimized for electricity prices for California, Cyprus, Greece and Spain for 2010. Low savings are obtained with variable operation. Shutting off is not chosen in the optimal operation and 1% oversizing typically leads to increased costs. Lower electricity prices with more fluctuations result in better savings. Product water is stored during the winter.
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Mishra, Brahmdatt. "Optimal operation of multiproduct batch plants." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=981974562.
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Vasil'ev, Vladimir A. "Invertibility of a class of Toeplitz operators over the half plane." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007.
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Zhao, Yongjun. "An Integrated Framework for Gas Turbine Based Power Plant Operational Modeling and Optimization." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/10580.
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The deregulation of the electric power market introduced a strong element of competition. Power plant operators strive to develop advanced operational strategies to maximize the profitability in the dynamic electric power market. New methodologies for gas turbine power plant operational modeling and optimization are needed for power plant operation to enhance operational decision making, and therefore to maximize power plant profitability by reducing operations and maintenance cost and increasing revenue.
In this study, a profit based, lifecycle oriented, and unit specific methodology for gas turbine based power plant operational modeling was developed, with the power plant performance, reliability, maintenance, and market dynamics considered simultaneously. The generic methodology is applicable for a variety of optimization problems, and several applications for operational optimization were implemented using this method.
A multiple time-scale method was developed for gas turbine power plants long term generation scheduling. This multiple time-scale approach allows combining the detailed granularity of the day-to-day operations with global (seasonal) trends, while keeping the resulting optimization model relatively compact. Using the multiple timescale optimization method, a profit based outage departure planning method was developed, and the key factors for this profit based approach include power plant aging, performance degradation, reliability deterioration, and the energy market dynamics. A novel approach for gas turbine based power plant sequential preventive maintenance scheduling was also introduced. Finally, methods to evaluate the impact of upgrade packages on gas turbine power plant performance, reliability, and economics were developed, and TIES methodology was applied for effective evaluation and selection of gas turbine power plant upgrade packages.
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Chen, Hongmei. "A Multiscale Forecasting Methodology for Power Plant Fleet Management." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/6849.
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In recent years the electric power industry has been challenged by a high level of uncertainty and volatility brought on by deregulation and globalization. A power producer must minimize the life cycle cost while meeting stringent safety and regulatory requirements and fulfilling customer demand for high reliability. Therefore, to achieve true system excellence, a more sophisticated system-level decision-making process with a more accurate forecasting support system to manage diverse and often widely dispersed generation units as a single, easily scaled and deployed fleet system in order to fully utilize the critical assets of a power producer has been created as a response.
The process takes into account the time horizon for each of the major decision actions taken in a power plant and develops methods for information sharing between them. These decisions are highly interrelated and no optimal operation can be achieved without sharing information in the overall process.
The process includes a forecasting system to provide information for planning for uncertainty. A new forecasting method is proposed, which utilizes a synergy of several modeling techniques properly combined at different time-scales of the forecasting objects. It can not only take advantages of the abundant historical data but also take into account the impact of pertinent driving forces from the external business environment to achieve more accurate forecasting results.
Then block bootstrap is utilized to measure the bias in the estimate of the expected life cycle cost which will actually be needed to drive the business for a power plant in the long run. Finally, scenario analysis is used to provide a composite picture of future developments for decision making or strategic planning.
The decision-making process is applied to a typical power producer chosen to represent challenging customer demand during high-demand periods. The process enhances system excellence by providing more accurate market information, evaluating the impact of external business environment, and considering cross-scale interactions between decision actions. Along with this process, system operation strategies, maintenance schedules, and capacity expansion plans that guide the operation of the power plant are optimally identified, and the total life cycle costs are estimated.
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Dvorak, Gary John. "Economic analysis of irrigation pumping plants." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9834.
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Amba, Harsha Vardhan. "Operation and Monitoring of Parabolic Trough Concentrated Solar Power Plant." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5891.
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The majority of the power generated today is produced using fossil fuels,emitting carbon dioxide and other pollutants every second. Also, fossil fuels will eventually run out. For the increasing worldwide energy demand, the use f reliable and environmentally beneficial natural energy sources is one of the biggest challenges. Alongside wind and water, the solar energy which is clean, CO2-neutral and limitless, is our most valuable resource.
Concentrated solar power (CSP) is becoming one of the excellent alternative sources for the power industry. The successful implementation of this technology requires the efficient design of tracking and operation system of the CSP solar plants. A detailed analysis of components needed for the design of cost-effective and optimum tracker for CSP solar systems is required for the power plant modeling, which is the primary subject of this thesis. A comprehensive tracking and operating system of a parabolic trough solar power plant was developed focusing primarily on obtaining optimum and cost effective design through the simplified methodology of this work. This new model was implemented for a 50 kWe parabolic trough solar power plant at University of South Florida, Tampa.
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Streckienė, Giedrė. "Research of Heat Storage Tank Operation Modes in Cogeneration Plant." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110621_170138-31454.
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The dissertation investigates typical operation modes of the heat storage tank in the small-scale cogeneration (CHP) plant, analyses formation of thermal stratifi-cation in such storage tank and presents the simulation of the stratification. The main aim of the dissertation is to investigate peculiarities of operation modes of heat storage tank in small-scale CHP plant, develop an algorithm allowing to choose the storage tank volume and present a model allowing determination of thermal stratification in the storage tank at any time of its operation.Disertacijoje nagrinėjami būdingi šilumos akumuliacinės talpos veikimo režimai, susiformuojantys nedidelės galios kogeneracinėje jėgainėje, tiriamas šiluminės stratifikacijos susidarymas tokioje talpoje ir atliekamas jos modeliavimas. Pagrindinis disertacijos tikslas – ištirti nedidelės galios kogeneracinės jėgainės šilumos akumuliacinės talpos veikimo režimų ypatumus, sudaryti algoritmą, padedantį parinkti tokios talpos tūrį ir pateikti modelį, leidžiantį nustatyti šiluminę stratifikaciją akumuliacinėje talpoje bet kuriuo jos veikimo metu.
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Prasad, Girijesh. "Performance monitoring and control for economical fossil power plant operation." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264537.
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Gillie, Mary. "Operation and regulation of a 'virtual wind/gas' power plant." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405322.
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Aryana, Shahla. "Advanced operation and optimisation of an industrial ethylene oxide plant." Connect to full text, 2008. http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/5402.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009.Includes graphs and tables. Title from title screen (viewed November 06, 2009). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Chittratanawat, Sarawoot. "Operation based facilities design /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3025611.
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Viana, Andson de Freitas. "A study on the insolvency of operators health plans." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2012. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8308.
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nÃo hÃNa dÃcada de 1990 ocorreram diversas transformaÃÃes no setor de saÃde no Brasil, sendo uma das mais importantes, a alteraÃÃo da Lei que regula as operadoras de planos e seguros para os riscos à saÃde dos indivÃduos. Este setor vem se tornando cada vez mais concentrado com uma saÃda maior que a entrada de novas empresas. à importante investigar, neste caso, que fatores contribuem para que uma operadora de plano nÃo se sustente no mercado. Quais sÃo os sinais (variÃveis) visÃveis na contabilidade destas que antecipam a insolvÃncia? Para responder esta questÃo, esta dissertaÃÃo utiliza-se de um modelo Logit multivariado para a probabilidade de insolvÃncia, onde os principais cofatores sÃo indicadores financeiros das empresas retiradas da base de dados mais atualizada da AgÃncia Nacional de SaÃde Suplementar. AlÃm destes indicadores, tambÃm foi investigado se o tipo de operadora de plano de saÃde ou o local de atuaÃÃo da mesma tambÃm podem contribuir para o risco de insolvÃncia. Como resultado verificou-se que o tipo de operadora e a regiÃo de atuaÃÃo de cada uma nÃo tÃm correlaÃÃo quanto ao nÃvel de insolvÃncias das OPS. De maneira esperada os indicadores econÃmicos financeiros de endividamento (CT/CP e ENDIV) e de recebimento (PMCR) foram os mais importantes na previsÃo de insolvÃncia das empresas em um perÃodo subsequente.
Na dÃcada de 1990 ocorreram diversas transformaÃÃes no setor de saÃde no Brasil, sendo uma das mais importantes, a alteraÃÃo da Lei que regula as operadoras de planos e seguros para os riscos à saÃde dos indivÃduos. Este setor vem se tornando cada vez mais concentrado com uma saÃda maior que a entrada de novas empresas. à importante investigar, neste caso, que fatores contribuem para que uma operadora de plano nÃo se sustente no mercado. Quais sÃo os sinais (variÃveis) visÃveis na contabilidade destas que antecipam a insolvÃncia? Para responder esta questÃo, esta dissertaÃÃo utiliza-se de um modelo Logit multivariado para a probabilidade de insolvÃncia, onde os principais cofatores sÃo indicadores financeiros das empresas retiradas da base de dados mais atualizada da AgÃncia Nacional de SaÃde Suplementar. AlÃm destes indicadores, tambÃm foi investigado se o tipo de operadora de plano de saÃde ou o local de atuaÃÃo da mesma tambÃm podem contribuir para o risco de insolvÃncia. Como resultado verificou-se que o tipo de operadora e a regiÃo de atuaÃÃo de cada uma nÃo tÃm correlaÃÃo quanto ao nÃvel de insolvÃncias das OPS. De maneira esperada os indicadores econÃmicos financeiros de endividamento (CT/CP e ENDIV) e de recebimento (PMCR) foram os mais importantes na previsÃo de insolvÃncia das empresas em um perÃodo subsequente.
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Bhatnagar, Rajiv. "A knowledge-based operator advisor system for integration of fault detection, control, and diagnosis to enhance the safe and reliable operation of nuclear power plants /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148767110830585.
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Friday, Brian Matthew. "VANISHING LOCAL SCALAR INVARIANTS ON GENERALIZED PLANE WAVE MANIFOLDS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/884.
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Characterizing a manifold up to isometry is a challenging task. A manifold is a topological space. One may equip a manifold with a metric, and generally speaking, this metric determines how the manifold “looks". An example of this would be the unit sphere in R3. While we typically envision the standard metric on this sphere to give it its familiar shape, one could define a different metric on this set of points, distorting distances within this set to make it seem perhaps more ellipsoidal, something not isometric to the standard round sphere. In an effort to distinguish manifolds up to isometry, we wish to compute meaningful invariants. For example, the Riemann curvature tensor and its surrogates are examples of invariants one could construct. Since these objects are generally too complicated to compare and are not real valued, we construct scalar invariants from these objects instead. This thesis will explore these invariants and exhibit a special family of manifolds that are not flat on which all of these invariants vanish.
We will go on to properly define, and gives examples of, manifolds, metrics, tangent vector fields, and connections. We will show how to compute the Christoffel symbols that define the Levi-Civita connection, how to compute curvature, and how to raise and lower indices so that we can produce scalar invariants. In order to construct the curvature operator and curvature tensor, we use the miracle of pseudo-Riemannian geometry, i.e., the Levi-Civita connection, the unique torsion free and metric compatible connection on a manifold. Finally, we examine Generalized Plane Wave Manifolds, and show that all scalar invariants of Weyl type on these manifolds vanish, despite the fact that many of these manifolds are not flat.
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Yélamos, Ruiz Ignacio. "A global approach for supporting operators' decision-making dealing with plant abnormal events." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/6465.
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El alto grado de automatización adquirido en las plantas químicas durante las últimas décadas hace que las tareas de supervisión sean ahora más complejas y delicadas. Esta supervisión requiere de sistemas y herramientas sofisticadas que puedan sacar provecho de los módulos de adquisición de información instalados en planta. Así, el preciso seguimiento de las variables de proceso o la fácil operatividad de los procesos, gracias a los sistemas de control regulatorio actuales, son aspectos relevantes que deben ser contemplados a la hora de dar una respuesta global a las desviaciones del régimen normal de operación.Esta tesis presenta un enfoque global para la gestión de situaciones anormales en plantas químicas. En esta propuesta se contempla el flujo completo de información requerido para responder efectivamente a cualquier situación anormal que se pueda presentar. Mediante esta visión global, primeramente se identifican todos los módulos de planta involucrados en la gestión de fallos; luego se focalizan esfuerzos en mejorar las técnicas que estos módulos usan para su operación; por último, se aprovechan algunas de las sinergias descubiertas mediante esta visión global de la gestión de eventos anormales.
De esta forma, el primer capítulo esetablece un primer acercamiento general a las motivaciones y ámbito de las tesis, describiendo rasgos fundamentales en la evolución de la industria química durante los últimos años y los requerimientos asociados al nuevo modelo de supervisión. El segundo capítulo resume las técnicas y aplicaciones actuales para reducir el riesgo de incidencias y accidentes en procesos químicos. Este resumen se centra principalmente en aquellas metodologías más empleadas en la literatura y aquellas con más aceptación en ambientes industriales. Una vez analizado el estado del arte en la supervisión de procesos, se propone un enfoque global de gestión de eventos anormales en el tercer capítulo, que presenta los eslabones de la cadena de gestión de eventos anormales, los cuales serán abordados en detalle en los capítulos restantes.
De esta forma, el capítulo 4 se centra en la mejora de los sistemas de adquisición de datos y su posterior tratamiento mediante reconciliación con modelos del proceso. Los capítulos 5, 6, 7 y 8 se dedican al estudio de la parte central de cualquier sistema de respuesta a eventos anormales, el módulo de diagnóstico. El capítulo 5 formaliza el problema de diagnosis y estandariza los índices de evaluación de funcionamiento de los sistemas de diagnóstico. Los capítulo 6 y 7 preentan dos nuevos sistemas de diagnosis basados en el uso de datos históricos. El primero desarrollado en el capítulo 6, implementa un algoritmo de aprendizaje llamada "Máquinas de soporte vectorial" (SVM) adoptando un enfoque "MultiEtiqueta" que permite el diagnóstico eficaz de fallos simultáneos. El segundo sistema (capítulo 7) integra un módulo de detección basado en un modelo de Análisis de Componentes Principales y un módulo de diagnóstico basado en reglas "si-entonces". Como compendio de la diagnosis, el capítulo 8 estudia las fuerzas y debilidades de los sistemas de diagnóstico propuestos y propone una integración de módulos de diagnóstico complementarios que supera el rendimiento de cualquiera de los sistemas por separado.
Los capítulos 9 y 10 están centrados en la toma efectiva de decisiones frente a desviaciones del régimen normal de operación. El capítulo 9 presenta una metodología novedosa de integración de conocimiento del proceso en línea y fuera de línea, que permite generar información sustancial de soporte al operador en la toma de decisiones. El capítulo 10 se centra también en la toma de decisiones, mostrando las sinergias generadas al integrar el sistema de diagnosis con otros módulos de planta. En este capítulo el sistema global de gestión de eventos anormales es complementado con un módulo de optimización en línea. De esta forma el nuevo soporte a la toma de decisiones frente a perturbaciones no sólo tiene en cuenta aspectos relacionados con la seguridad sino también con la economía de la planta. Además, la integración permite que la técnica de optimizaicón empleada sea más fiable en su aplicación.
Todos los capítulos incluyen una primera parte teórica seguida de una segunda parte centrada en la validación académica e industrail. Aquellos temas que exceden el alcance de estas tesis, son comentados y propuestos como trabajo futuro en el capítulo 11.
The hight automation acquired in chemical industry during last decades has made supervision a delicate and complex task. Therefore, current plants supervision require of sophisticated systems and tools that can create profit from the information installed modules. Thus, the precise tracking of process variables or the high plant operability, achieved by the current regulatory control, are aspects that must be contemplated when the plant has to give a global response against deviations from normal operating regime.
This thesis presents a global approach for the management of abnormal situations in chemical plants. In this proposal the complete flow of information required to respond to any nonstandard situation is considered. This global approach incorporates several key aspects: first, all the plant modules that are necessary in the faults management are presented; secondly, this thesis focuses on improving the techniques used in each of these modules so far. Lastly, synergies discovered by the proposed global approach are used to develop novel and promising solutions to address process safety and optimization difficulties.
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Chu, Xinyuan. "System dynamics modeling for human performance in nuclear power plant operation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41297.
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Perfect plant operation with high safety and economic performance is based on both good physical design and successful organization. However, in comparison with the affection that has been paid to technology research, the effort that has been exerted to enhance NPP management and organization, namely human performance, seems pale and insufficient. There is a need to identify and assess aspects of human performance that are predictive of plant safety and performance and to develop models and measures of these performance aspects that can be used for operation policy evaluation, problem diagnosis, and risk-informed regulation. The challenge of this research is that: an NPP is a system that is comprised of human and physics subsystems. Every human department includes different functional workers, supervisors, and managers; while every physical component can be in normal status, failure status, or a being-repaired status. Thus, an NPP's situation can be expressed as a time-dependent function of the interactions among a large number of system elements. The interactions between these components are often non-linear and coupled, sometime there are direct or indirect, negative or positive feedbacks, and hence a small interference input either can be suppressed or can be amplified and may result in a severe accident finally. This research expanded ORSIM (Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Risk Simulator) model, which is a quantitative computer model built by system dynamics methodology, on human reliability aspect and used it to predict the dynamic behavior of NPP human performance, analyze the contribution of a single operation activity to the plant performance under different circumstances, diagnose and prevent fault triggers from the operational point of view, and identify good experience and policies in the operation of NPPs.
(cont.) Regarding the human reliability analysis function, the partial Standardized Plant Analysis Risk Human Reliability Analysis (SPAR-H) method was applied. Performance Shaping Factors (PSFs) were employed to analyze the influence of human performance indicators already existing in ORSIM. Based on the human performance model, an operation case study was investigated. A series of carefully chosen candidate policies were tested on a computerized model that represents the structure, processes, and interactions of the underlying target NPP systems. These candidates included: (1) New management system application; (2) Personnel population change, (3) Planning delay, and (4) Tolerance to surprise workload.
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Finch, Sheri A. "Training needs assessment for an operation in a juice processing plant." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001finchs.pdf.
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Tengberg, Oskar. "Implementation of Hydro Power Plant Optimization for Operation and Production Planning." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskap och matematik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-74274.
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Output power of hydro power plant was modelled and an optimization algorithm was implemented in a tool for optimizing hydro power plants. The tool maximizes power output of a hydro power plant by distributing water over a set of active units in the power plant which will be used in planning of electricity production. This tool was built in a MATLAB environment, using the optimization toolbox, and a GUI was developed for Vattenfall. The optimization tool was based on the same architecture as the current tool used for this kind of optimization which is to be replaced by the work presented in this thesis. Therefore, the goal was to achieve the same optimal results as the current optimization tool. Power output of three of Vattenfall’s hydro power plants were computed and two of these plants were optimized. These power output results were compared to results from the optimization tool currently used. This showed differences within the inaccuracy of measurements of ≤ 0.3%. These three power plants proved that the new tool is sufficient to replace the current tool but further testing is recommended to be conducted on more of Vattenfall’s hydro power plants to prove its consistency.
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Mansoor, Sa'ad. "Behaviour and operation of pumped storage hydro plants." Thesis, Bangor University, 2000. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/behaviour-and-operation-of-pumped-storage-hydro-plants(c1905e46-af51-444a-b85b-f2ee7ad1b598).html.
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The thesis describes the development of a generic nonlinear computer model of a pumped storage hydroelectric scheme. The model combines the hydraulic, electrical and control systems. In particular, this model includes the water hammer effects, the hydraulic coupling in the common water supply tunnel, the power system stiffness and the electrical coupling between the generator and the power system. The benefit of the simulation is that it gives insight into the plant characteristics and improves understanding of the physical phenomena involved. A specific case of the model for Dinorwig power station is tested against the plant responses and establishes a good degree of confidence in the simulation. The model is used to evaluate governor performance and establish stability boundaries for various operating conditions. The model is also used to design a new black-start regime which allows Dinorwig to energise the power system after blackout, with individual units picking up incremental loads up to 15% of machine rating while ensuring that frequency deviations remains within limits. Another application of the model is to explain why a period of sustained power oscillation occurred at Dinorwig and to identify under what circumstances this can take place. Linearised system models are used for governor tuning and root locus and Bode plot methods applied to establish the optimum governor settings for different operation conditions. The results demonstrate the significance of hydraulic coupling and the power system (grid) size on governor tuning. The final part of the work addresses conversion of the model to run in real-time and interfacing it with an actual unit governor. The results demonstrate the practicality of the hardware-in-the-loop simulation as a technique for safely implementing and testing new controllers or enhancements to the current controller.
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Afonso, Ana Beatriz Perez. "Ações judiciais demandadas por beneficiários de uma operadora de plano de saúde." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/22/22132/tde-04052017-181823/.
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A judicialização da saúde tem sido fenômeno em crescimento na área da saúde e assunto relevante da pauta de gestores. Muitos estudos produzidos nos últimos anos, tanto no campo do Direito como no da Saúde, indicam um predomínio no sistema público. Essa pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar as ações judiciais relacionadas as coberturas assistenciais na saúde suplementar. Estudo descritivo e de corte transversal realizado em uma operadora de plano privado de saúde em um município de grande porte do interior do estado de São Paulo, que presta assistência a mais de cem mil beneficiários. Foram analisadas 158 demandas judiciais ajuizadas e recebidas pela operadora e registradas em banco de dados da empresa do período de 2012 a 2015, movidas por 152 beneficiários. As ações foram classificadas em dois grandes grupos, com subgrupos constituídos, a saber: ações relacionadas a coberturas assistenciais, que envolveram procedimentos médicos, tratamentos, exames, medicamentos, home care/internação domiciliar, outros tipos de internações; e ações de outra natureza, referentes a liminares de outras operadoras para cumprimento da operadora estudada, manutenção do plano de saúde, reajustes, perícia médica, retirada do nome do Serasa, isenção de carências e outros motivos. As ações pleiteadas para realização de procedimentos médicos responderam por 57% das demandas, com destaque para rizotomia percutânea (27%). Tratamento de quimioterapia em serviços não credenciados pela operadora, exames de PET SCAN em não conformidade com rol de procedimentos autorizados pela ANS, além de medicamentos antineoplásicos e para tratamento de Hepatite C, que não integravam a relação de medicamentos registrados pela ANVISA foram destaque nas análises realizadas. A Lei 9.656/1998 foi determinante para os beneficiários recorrerem ao Judiciário por coberturas assistenciais, impactando de maneira significativa na gestão das operadoras de planos privado. Deve-se considerar legítima a discussão sobre o tema e a realização desse estudo possibilitou aprofundar a análise dos efeitos da judicialização na realidade da operadora pesquisada, abarcando seus limites e responsabilidadesThe judicialization of health has been a growing phenomenon in the area of health and a relevant subject of the managers\' agenda. Many studies that have been produced in recent years, both in the field of Law and Health, indicate predominance in the public system. The objective of this research was to analyze the legal actions that are related to health care coverage in supplementary health care. A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in a private health care operator in a large municipality / in a big city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, which provides assistance to more than 100,000 beneficiaries. We have analyzed 158 lawsuits that were filed and received by the operator and registered in the company\'s database for the period from 2012 to 2015, filed by 152 beneficiaries. The actions were classified into two large groups, with constituted subgroups, namely: actions that were related to care coverage, involving medical procedures, treatments, examinations, medications, home care / other hospitalizations; and actions of other nature, relating to injunctions of other operators to comply with the operator that was studied, maintenance of the health plan, readjustments, medical expertise, removal of the name of Serasa (Brazilian credit protection organization), exemption from deficiencies and other reasons. The actions that were requested to perform medical procedures were accounted for 57% of the demands, with emphasis on percutaneous rhizotomy (27%). The treatment of chemotherapy in services that were not accredited by the operator, SCAN PET examinations in non-compliance with ANS-authorized procedures, in addition to antineoplastic drugs and for treatment of Hepatitis C, which were not part of the list of medicines that were registered by ANVISA were highlighted in the analyzes which were carried out. The Law 9,656 / 1998 was decisive for beneficiaries to appeal to the Judiciary for assistance coverage, having a significant impact on the management of the private plan operators. The discussion on the topic should be considered legitimate and the realization / execution of this study made it possible to deepen the analysis of the effects of the judicialization on the reality of the surveyed operator, encompassing its limits and responsibilities
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Aguilera, S. Miguel, C. Esteban Lagos, P. Sandra López, and M. Aracelly Salech. "Operador logístico kinder suppliers." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2007. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/135819.
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Tesis para optar al título de Magíster en AdministraciónEl presente plan de negocios, tiene como objetivo evaluar la implementación de KKKiiinnndddeeerrr SSSuuuppppppllliiieeerrrsss, un operador logístico de materiales didácticos para la educación preescolar subvencionada. En nuestro país, la educación preescolar 100% subvencionada se imparte en establecimientos con tres tipos de administración: Municipales, JUNJI y Fundación Integra, los que en conjunto agrupan a más de 5.240 establecimientos. Una de las características que hace atractivo este proyecto se relaciona con el hecho de que hoy, existiendo un promedio de 18 llamados a licitación anuales (mecanismo mediante el cual determinan al proveedor de los materiales), la mitad de éstas son declaradas desiertas. Existen deficiencias fundamentalmente al momento de abastecer y distribuir los materiales solicitados, todo lo cual nos lleva a visualizar como una oportunidad de negocio dirigir la logística entre la oferta y la demanda por este tipo de bienes. Adicionalmente, en Chile, sólo la educación parvularia subvencionada por el Estado considera una inversión anual por más de MM$2.975. El monto de inversión inicial asciende a MM$18. La tasa de descuento calculada asciende a 18,96%, obteniendo un VAN MM$32 y una TIR de 56% ambos para el inversionista.
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Nackfors, Glenn, and Damir Hodo. "Utveckling av ett standardiserat operatörsobjekt i plant simulation." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11531.
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This thesis work in automation technology at 30 credits is conducted at Volvo Cars Cooperation (VCC) in collaboration with the University of Skövde. With the current staffing method VCC are experiencing difficulties achieving an optimal utilization of operators as there has been difficult to ascertain how much work an operator can handle. Operators are an often overlooked part of simulation studies because they are complex to model. The completed thesis consists of developing a standardized operator object in the simulation software Plant Simulation, developed by Siemens. Using this object, it will be easier to staff optimally with respect to the number of work areas, operator skills and how many operators that are required for the given work areas. The existing VCC Plant Simulation library already has an object for operators. This operator object was used as the basis for the development of the new operator object. When developing the new object, data collection was made in form of both qualitative and quantitative data to find out what functionality the new object needed. The existing object was evaluated against the functionality requirements to determine what were needed to be added, removed or modified. Five main areas were considered important to develop: (1) operators that can work across two or more work areas, (2) walking time for operators, (3) learning effect, (4) the learning curve for operators and (5) operators who work on different shifts. The learning curve was only partly developed, but the other four areas were fully implemented. In order to test and analyze the object, three experiments were carried out using different case studies, where one of these cases studies was a real production line. The experimental design was jointly created with the VCC reference group and the University of Skövde. The main objectives of the experiments were to reduce the number of operators and increase throughput per hour. The result of the optimisation of the real production line showed that a significantly smaller staffing could be achieved without a major effect on the throughput. The results of the project were that a standardized operator object was developed according to the specifications and objectives set for the project. This object provides the ability to quickly and easily implement operators in a simulation model. To verify the applicability of the operator object, it was successfully imported and used for simulation-based optimisation in three different simulation models. The operator object also contains functionalities that provide more realistic operators, such as the walk time to the operations, operators that can work across several work areas and competence for operators as well as learning. The results of this project involve a simpler implementation of more realistic operators and thus lead to more realistic simulation models.Examensarbetet inom automatiseringsteknik på 30hp är genomfört vid Volvo Cars Coperation (VCC) i Skövde i samarbete med Högskolan i Skövde. Med dagens bemanningsmetod upplever VCC svårigheter med att uppnå en optimal beläggning på operatörerna, då det har varit problematiskt att få fram hur mycket arbete en operatör klarar av. Operatörer är en ofta förbisedd del av simulering eftersom de är komplexa att modellera. Det genomförda examensarbetet består av att utveckla ett standardiserat operatörsobjekt i simuleringsmjukvaran Plant Simulation från Siemens. Med hjälp av detta objekt ska det bli enklare att bemanna effektivt med avseende på antal arbetsområden, operatörernas kompetens samt hur många operatörer det krävs per arbetsområde. I VCCs egenutvecklade bibliotek i Plant Simulation fanns det redan ett objekt för operatörer. Detta objekt användes som grund för utveckling av det nya operatörsobjektet. Vid utveckling av det nya objektet utfördes datainsamling i form av både kvalitativ och kvantitativ art för att ta reda på vilken funktionalitet som det nya objektet skulle inneha. Det existerande objektet utvärderades mot dessa funktionalitetskrav för att bestämma vad som skulle läggas till, tas bort eller ändras. Fem stycken huvudområden ansågs vara viktiga att utveckla: (1) operatörer som kan arbeta över två eller flera arbetsområden, (2) gångtid för operatörer från och till operationer, (3) kompetens för operatörerna, (4) inlärningskurva för operatörerna och (5) operatörer som jobbar på olika skift. Av dessa implementerades alla utan inlärningskurvan fullt ut, inlärningskurvan är en del av det fortsatta arbetet. För att kunna testa och analysera objektet genomfördes tre stycken experiment i form av fallstudier varav en av dessa fallstudier var av en verklig produktionslinje. Experimentplanen togs fram gemensamt med VCC referensgrupp och Högskolan i Skövde. Huvudmålen med experimenten var att minska antalet operatörer och att öka takt per timma. Resultatet av optimeringen för den verkliga produktionslinjen visade att en signifikant mindre bemanning skulle kunna uppnås utan en större effekt på takt per timma. Resultatet av projektet var ett standardiserat operatörsobjekt som togs fram enligt de specifikationer och mål som definierats för projektet. Detta objekt ger möjligheten att snabbare och enklare implementera operatörer i en simuleringsmodell. För att verifiera användbarheten av operatörsobjektet, importerades det och användes för simulering-baserad optimering i tre olika simuleringsmodeller. Operatörsobjektet innehåller också funktionaliteter som ger mer realistiska operatörer så som gångtid till operationer, operatörer som kan arbeta över flera arbetsområden, kompetens för operatörer samt inlärning. Resultatet från detta projekt innebär en enklare implementering av operatörer i en simuleringsmjukvara och bidrar således till mer realistiska simuleringsmodeller.