S Raghava Chari

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Steam turbine 100 to 40 bar steam letdown station 3-year long persistent flange leaks stopped.

Flange Joint Errors shutdowns a plant and its root cause analyzed and eliminated.

Sledge open/close too hard to operate and leaking plug valves pose safety hazards and lead to plant shutdown.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): A pipe elbow sudden pipe burst fatalities and wrecked panel instrumentation.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) provides a solution to Reformer Fan Bearing Change Times cut by 90%.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Fired boiler-induced draft fan (IDF) failures upset all plants operations.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): 450 KW 1500 RPM plant fan motor frequent Journal Bearing failures posed plant outages.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) related to the pumps’ turbine to gearbox alignment drifts caused pump transfers upset operations.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): 1800 kW 8000 to 750 RPM Gearbox (GB) within week failing journal bearing (JBs) upset plant operations.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Too poor antifriction bearings lives caused machine changeovers posed upsets / outages.