Optimal Maintenance Policy for Corroded Oil and Gas Pipelines using Markov Decision Processes

This paper presents a novel approach to determine optimal maintenance policies for degraded oil and gas pipelines due to internal pitting corrosion. This approach builds a bridge between Markov process-based corrosion rate models and Markov decision processes (MDP). This bridging allows for the cons...

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Main Authors: Roohollah Heidary, Jubilee Prasad-Rao, Katrina M. Groth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Prognostics and Health Management Society 2022-01-01
Series:International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management
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Online Access:https://papers.phmsociety.org/index.php/ijphm/article/view/3106