A Few Case Studies for Justifying Benefits of RLA in Thermal Power Plants

The purpose of RLA is merely to ensure full utilization of a plant upto its useful life. Just as human health assessment/checking starts from the birth and is needed at regular intervals based on some scientific reason to ensure relatively disease-free longer human life, metallurgical health assessment (another name of RLA) needs to be done from the beginning particularly where metallurgically hostile conditions prevail.