TABLE OF CONTENTS (courtesy of The Gasification Technologies Council, Rev. 5 February 2002)
The objective of these guidelines is to present a standardized way for reporting the operating statistics of gasification facilities. The statistics are primarily time-based; however, a single flow-based indicator is also included. An example is given.
The gasification facility is divided into two units so that the operating statistics can be reported for each of these critical areas of the facility. The units are defined as follows:
Gasification (including ASU and acid gas removal unit)
Product units
Figure D1: gasification facility units
Power production block, and/or
Chemical production block.
Authors are also asked to indicate the specific configurations of the units with regard to back-up and multiple trains.
Product Not Required
% of year that the product from the unit was not required, and therefore, the unit was not operated. The unit was generally available to run and not in a planned outage or forced outage.
Planned Outages
% of the year that the unit is not operated due to outages which were scheduled at least 1 month in advance. Includes yearly planned outages as well as maintenance outages with more than 1 month's notice.
Unplanned Outages
% of the year the unit was not operated due to forced outages which had less than 1 month's notice. Includes immediate outages as well as maintenance outages with less than 1 month's notice.
On-stream
% of the...
