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Analyzing Potential Failures and Effects in a Pilot-Scale Biomass Preprocessing Facility for Improved Reliability

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العنوان: Analyzing Potential Failures and Effects in a Pilot-Scale Biomass Preprocessing Facility for Improved Reliability
المؤلفون: Rachel M. Emerson, Nepu Saha, Pralhad H. Burli, Jordan L. Klinger, Tiasha Bhattacharjee, Lorenzo Vega-Montoto
المصدر: Energies, Vol 17, Iss 11, p 2516 (2024)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Technology
مصطلحات موضوعية: biomass, preprocessing, high-temperature conversion, failure analysis, quality attributes, risk analysis, Technology
الوصف: This study demonstrates a failure identification methodology applied to a preprocessing facility generating conversion-ready feedstocks from biomass meeting conversion process critical quality attribute (CQA) specifications. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) was used as an industrially relevant risk analysis approach to evaluate a logging residue preprocessing system to prepare feedstock for pyrolysis conversion. Risk evaluations considered both system-level and operation unit-level assessments considering process efficiency, product quality, cost, sustainability, and safety. Key outputs included estimations of semi-quantitative risk scores for each failure, identification of the failure impacts, identification of failure causes associated with material attributes and process parameters, ranking success rates of failure detection methods, and speculation of potential mitigation strategies for decreasing failure risk scores. Results showed that deviations from moisture specifications had cascading consequences for other CQAs along with process safety implications. Failures linked to fixed carbon specifications carried the highest risk scores for product quality and process efficiency impacts. As increased throughput can be inversely related to meeting product quality specifications; achieving throughput and other material-based CQAs simultaneously will likely require system optimization or prioritization based on system economics. Ultimately, this work successfully demonstrates FMEA as a risk analysis approach for other bioenergy process systems.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 17112516
1996-1073
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/11/2516; https://doaj.org/toc/1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en17112516
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/1208321b5b674a929c7eed96bc97ec39
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.1208321b5b674a929c7eed96bc97ec39
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:17112516
19961073
DOI:10.3390/en17112516