Kapil Dev Sharma

Energy is essential for human development. Energy is the key input for socioeconomic development of any nation. The fast industrialization and rapid urbanization besides mechanized farming have generated a high demand of energy in all forms i.e. thermal, mechanical and electrical. To meet this ever-increasing demand, fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas have been overexploited in an unsustainable manner. The overexploitations of fossil fuels have been posing serious environmental problems such as global warming and climate change. While we have shortage of energy and more dependent on imports in case of petroleum, we are fortunate enough to be blessed with plenty of natural sources of energy such as solar, wind, biomass and hydro. These sources are environmentally benign and non-depleting in nature as well as are available in most parts of the country throughout the year.Biomass resources such as cattle dung, agriculture wastes and other organic wastes have been one of the...

FMEA is a systematic method of identifying and preventing system, product and process problems before they occur. It is focused on preventing problems, enhancing safety, and increasing customer satisfaction. Formally FMEA was introduced in the late 1940s by the US military Forces. In 1960s it was used by the aerospace industry as a design methodology, with their obvious reliability and safety requirements. In the late 1970s, the Ford Motor Company introduced FMEA to the automotive industry for safety and regulatory consideration. They also used it to improve production and design. FMEA is widely used in manufacturing industries in various phases of the product life cycle and it now extensively used in a variety of industries including semiconductor processing, food service, plastics, power plant, software, and healthcare. A successful FMEA activity enables a team to identify potential failure modes based on past experience with similar products or processes, enabling the team to des...

Failure mode and effect analysis is one of the QS-9000 quality system requirement supplements, with a wide applicability in all industrial fields. FMEA is the inductive failure analysis instruments which can be defined as a methodical group of activities intended to recognize and evaluate the potential failure modes of a product/ process and its effects with an aim to identify actions which could eliminate or reduce the chance of the potential failure before the problem occur. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the FMEA research and application in the Thermal Power Plant Industry. The research will highlight the application of FMEA method to water tubes (WT) in boilers with an aim to find-out all the major and primary causes of boiler failure and reduce the breakdown for continuous power generation in the plant. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis technique is applied on most critical or serious parts (components) of the plant which having highest Risk Priority Number (RPN). Comp...