Investigation of performance measures of power generating unit of sewage treatment plant

Abstract

Abstract The main objective of present study to investigate the availability and profit of power generation systems established in sewage treatment plants. The sewage treatment plant is an industry in which waste sewage water has been treated and waste is used to generate power. For this purpose, a mathematical model has been proposed by considering constant failure and repair rates. The power generating unit in sewage treatment plant comprises six subsystems as sludge digester, gas holding tank, gas burner, gas scrubber, gas engine and power generation. By using appropriate redundancy technique in model development Chapman-Kolmogorov differential equations has been drawn with the help of the Markov birth death process. Availability and profit have been analysed based on making variation in the failure and repair rates. The numerical and graphical results have been depicted for a particular case. The derived results have been discussed with system designers and found useful.