Estudo de confiabilidade de compressores alternativos semi-herméticos de sistemas de refrigeração. / Reliability study of reciprocating compressors of refrigeration systems.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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Refrigeration systems are reparable systems. This means that one can perform maintenance actions on them several times during the system life cycle. The most common refrigeration system is the vapor compression cycle. In this cycle, the compressor is the most complex and expensive component. So, the user should take special care because , beside problems like wear and lubricant lack, the compressor can also suffer damages caused by the incorrect work or fault from the others system components. Among the compressor types, the reciprocating compressor can be considered as the most used in the industrial refrigeration, from lowers capacities to up to 300 kW. Also the reciprocating compressor has some advantages, where its cylinders can be disabled for capacity control purposes. One can perform field maintenance of almost every part for this compressor. The word reliability means the probability of some equipment can not perform its requested function for an established time period, under defined operation conditions.. One of the tools to allow actions to improve the reliability is the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA). This tool is based on the analyzed function and sub function systems definitions seeking faults that affect each function and all fault modes that lead to every fault. For each fault mode, the effects are analyzed and the need of actions to decrease the occurrence of this event is defined, excluding or control this undesirable events. This work objective is to study the most important faults, fault modes of reciprocating semi-hermetic compressors, its occurrences and its behavior during the guarantee period under reliability point of view.

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compressores compressors refrigeração (confiabilidade) refrigeration (reliability)

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