THE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF A REFINING SYSTEM BY USING MARKOV PROCESS

The availability analysis of the refining system in a sugar plant is explored in the present paper. There are various subsystems which are complex in nature and are repairable. In a sugar plant, there is (i) feeding system (ii) refining system (iii) evaporation system (iv)crystallization system. one of the important systems is refining system. It has (i) clarifier filter units, (ii)Sulphonation units (iii) heating units. If anyone of these units fails, overall refining system fails. The mathematical modelling is used for analyzing the availability. The differential equations of first order are developed. Normalizing conditions are applied to find out steady state availability and the equations are resolved. This result is helpful for analyzing availability and for determining maintenance approaches of the sugar industry.