Environmental performance of systems from reliability perspective
by Kouroush Jenab, Liping Fang, Kourosh R. Noori
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE), Vol. 4, No. 4, 2009

Abstract: Increasingly, the world needs to know how to respond to challenges of environmental impact of a system composed of technologies, processes, and human activities. These environmental impacts result from human errors, system emissions (e.g., gases, radiations, sound, and dust), and waste that depletes resources (i.e., energy and materials) and/or endangers life. Therefore, this paper introduces terms and concepts used for evaluating the environmental reliability of a system. Moreover, considering environmental failure patterns (erratic, lumpy, intermittent, and smooth), human errors, and failure detection mechanisms (human sensory, monitoring device), several environmentally conscious models are developed to assess the environmental reliability of a system. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the application of the models.

Online publication date: Wed, 25-Mar-2009

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