Performance Modeling and Availability Analysis of Cane Juice Extraction System of A Sugar Industry (original) (raw)

This paper discusses the performance modeling and availability analysis of Cane Juice Extraction System of Sugar Industry. The Sugar Industry is a complex and repairable engineering system. Cane Juice Extraction System of Sugar Industry consist of five subsystems arranged in series configuration. The failure and repair rates of each subsystems are assumed to be constant. For performance modeling and analysis of availability, a performance evaluating model has been developed with the help of mathematical formulation based on Markov Modeling. The differential equations have been developed on the basis of Probabilistic Approach using a Transition diagram. These equations have further been solved using normalizing condition in order to develop the steady state availability, a performance measure of the system concerned. The effect of repair rate on most vulnerable items of the system is examined to realize the highest level of performance. Increase in availability of system confers many...