Root Cause Analysis of Fires in Coal Power Plants Using RFMEA Methods

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 1096; no. 1; p. 12100
• Main Authors: Nugroho, M J, Bahartyan, E, Raymond, R, Hidayat, B, Irawan, M I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.03.2021
• Subjects: Barges; Coal; Coal dust; Coal-fired power plants; Damage accumulation; Failure analysis; Failure modes; Fires; Risk levels; Root cause analysis
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1096/1/012100

Abstract Fire is one of the highest risks in using coal as fuel for electricity generation. Coal fires often occur in the area of coal handling facilities and are caused by equipment damage, accumulation of coal dust that has not been cleaned and burning coal itself. This study aims to find out how the application of the RFMEA (Risk Failure Mode Effect Analysis) method for the analysis of the root causes of fires in the Pacitan Coal Fired Power Plant case study uses a quantitative approach to find the root causes of prevention by respondents. from PT. PJB UBJOM Pacitan at manager and supervisor level. In implementing RFMEA, the severity, events, and detection are needed to produce risk level figures which will be used as a step in determining the priorities of the company’s mitigation management. Based on this study, 15 types of equipment failures were found at the operational coal handling facility at PT PJB UBJOM PACITAN. By using the RFMEA method, 1 type of critical failure can be found that requires more attention from management to mitigate the risk immediately, namely dust on coal both from barges and coal yards with risk value 32.05.