Installed throughout a nuclear power plant, instrumentation and control (I&C) is an essential element in the normal, abnormal and emergency operation of nuclear power plants (International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA], n.d.). Through their equipment, modules, sensors, and transmitters, I&C systems measure thousands of variables and processes the data to activate pumps, valves, motors, and other ...

The present paper investigates the reliability and sensitivity analysis of a coal handling unit of a thermal power plant using a probabilistic approach. Coal handling unit is the main block of a thermal power plant and it is necessary for a good function of a power plant that its power supply, which is dealt in coal handling unit, must function continuously without any obstacle. The configurati...