The student Patrícia de Sousa Oliveira received an Honorable Mention at the CBA 2020 (Brazilian Congress of Automatics), in the Master’s category, due to her article entitled “Performance Evaluation of Generating Units Using the AHP Method”, co-authored with her advisors André Luís Marques Marcato (UFJF) and Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira (DEI/PUC-Rio).
Patrícia is a student of the Interinstitutional Master’s Degree (MINTER), a partnership between DEI/PUC-Rio and UFJF.
The award-winning article proposes to obtain a ranking of generating units using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, based on the maintenance indicators of the Santo Antônio Hydroelectric Power Plant (SAE). The purpose of the classification generated is to provide subsidy to assist the planning of maintenance, determining the most critical turbines for the performance of preventive maintenance, in order to increase the availability of equipment, in addition to reducing the probabilities of forced shutdowns for corrective maintenance, factors impacting the Availability Factor (FID) of the plant. The main contribution of this work is the application of AHP to classify SAE generating units, using parameters and real historical data of the plant and hydraulic turbines.
See the certificate received by Patricia at the XXIII Brazilian Congress of Automatic – CBA 2020.