Less than 40% available Plant Air Compressors made available 100% for Operations
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Less than 40% available Plant Air Compressors made available 100% for operations.
Here we share the real-time scenarios and explanation of root cause analysis (RCA) problems and solutions related to electrical, mechanical, and Instrumentation in industrial plants.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Less than 40% available Plant Air Compressors made available 100% for operations.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Poorly engineered, built & often failing plant Air Comp drives made 100% reliable very economically.
Case Study: An Indian Plants all turbines’ low Vacuum & Saudi Plant turbo-compressor only.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): NH3 plant turbo-compressor Tilting Pad too high temperatures sudden affected and entire plant indefinite shutdown threat eliminated.
Turbo-compressor turning gear chamber excessive oil belch posed indefinite plant shutdown problem.
Process Air Compressor cracked shaft spacers; the plant Root Cause Analyzed, made the spacers and heat treated to lesser hardness and fitted on the spare and running rotor.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): 8000 RPM, 8000 kW, Turbine Problem Threatened Yearlong Total Fertilizer Complex Outage.
The author root cause analyzed the near miss incident of compressor anti-surge control to resume production and surge prevention.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Compressor near ½-RPM frequency high magnitude shaft vibrations.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Malfunctioning inlet check valves caused 5-year long chaos at each stop/trip of the compressor.