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Reliability Assessment of a Co-Generation Power Plant in a Sugar Mill Using Fault Tree Analysis

V. Ramesh Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, 600 025, India
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R. Saravannan Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, 600 025, India
Pages 1168-1183 | Received 07 Jan 2010, Accepted 06 Feb 2010, Published online: 11 Mar 2011

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