Sentence examples for equipment aging from inspiring English sources

During the life cycle operation of a heat exchanger network (HEN), factors such as equipment aging, gradually decrease heat transfer performance and increase energy consumption.

Archuleta, stumbling occasionally under withering questions from lawmakers, sought to defend her tenure and portray the agency's problems as decades in the making as its equipment aged.

In a dossier from November 2008, the LBBC outlined the areas of interest to the organisation and its partners: "Libya's defence equipment aged with the international sanctions imposed on Libya from 1992 to 2003 and is therefore being renewed on a large scale... France and [the] UK are also actively involved in Libya's rearmament process".

As equipment ages, there are increasing challenges to maintain its integrity.

This variation may be attributed to equipment usage, equipment age, organisation's maintenance policy and quantity of spare parts used.

A significant difficulty regarding the consideration of ageing effects on equipment (un availability is the immense uncertainty the available equipment ageing data are associated to.

This approach focuses on the incorporation of not only equipment ageing but also effectiveness of maintenance and efficiency of surveillance testing explicitly into APSA models and data.

This paper proposes a new approach for RAM modelling that accounts for equipment ageing and maintenance and testing effectiveness of equipment consisting of multiple items in an integrated manner.

Additionally, equipment ageing is gradually becoming a major concern in the process industries and especially in the nuclear industry, since more and more safety-related components are approaching or are already in their wear-out phase.

The ion beam physics group at the ETH, Zurich, has designed an Automated Graphitization Equipment (AGE III) for routine graphite production for AMS analysis from organic samples of approximately 1 mg.

An example of application is presented, which centres on a critical safety-related equipment of a NPP in order to evaluate the risk impact of considering different approaches to APSA and the combined effect of equipment ageing and maintenance and testing alternatives along NPP design life.