Journal
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS
Volume 162, Issue -, Pages 185-201Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2018.05.030
Keywords
Failure mode and effects analysis; Linguistic distribution assessment; Multi-granular linguistic; Best-worst method; Complex proportional assessment
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71571193]
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The sustainability challenge is increasingly driving the adoption of supercritical water gasification (SCWG) technology to ensure the elimination and recovery of pollution produced by sewage sludge treatment (SST). Risk evaluation by failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) plays a crucial role in guaranteeing the reliability and safety of SCWG systems. However, some limitations in existing FMEA methods need to be ameliorated. Multiple risk factors are involved in prioritizing risk levels for failure modes in SCWG systems, it is essential a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) process, in which overall assessments of failure modes should be provided according to their performances from several points during a system operation period. Due to differences in knowledge backgrounds and experiences, FMEA team members prefer to utilize multi-granular linguistic term sets to express their assessments of system risk. A hybrid risk evaluation model by FMEA is exploited with multi granular linguistic distribution assessments to suit practical case. Best-worst and maximizing derivation methods are adopted to determine subjective and objective combined weights for distinguishing the importance of risk factors. Complex proportional assessment method is used to prioritize failure modes for explicitly and effectively reflecting the risk level of each failure mode. The proposed model is applied in a practical case of an SCWG system used in SST. Results derived from comparative and sensitivity analyses fully demonstrate the reliability and validity of the model.
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