Session Details

Session 8
10:15 to 11:10 a.m. Friday August 19, 2005

Reliability Analysis of the CENPES II Project

The Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) methodology, which defines the components of a system in terms of their reliability and availability impacts, will be used in the CENPES II project to provide information to support decisions about project configuration, maintenance polices and stock polices in order to get a high performance system in terms of availability. The CENPES II project is composed of electrical, gas utilities, cold water, diesel utilities and CIPD (integrated process data center) systems. Each system and the whole project will be analyzed using the BlockSim software to simulate availability and reliability, taking into consideration typical stock and maintenance policies. The analyzed results will permit the identification of critical equipment in terms of reliability/availability impact, the best configuration to achieve the availability target and the best stock and maintenance policies, taking into consideration cost impacts on project cash flow.

Eduardo Calixto
Engineer of Production
Petrobras

Eduardo Calixto, Engineer of Production, has a degree from Federal University Fluminense (Universidade Federal Fluminense - RJ), Specialization in strategy for the Superior School of War /ADESG - Espirito Santo, a Masters in Management System in Federal University Fluminense (Universidade Federal Fluminense - RJ) and is a student in the Doctoral program in Energy and Environment Planning in Federal University of Rio De Janeiro (Universidade Federal Fluminense) - Coppe. Mr. Calixto has worked in Companhia Vale do Rio Doce as Engineer of Production in Planning and Control of the production, operation, quality, health and safety management and environment management. He works currently for Petrobras as Engineer of Production in the Basic Engineer in Cenpes working in Risks Analysis and the Reliability Assessment group.