Electrical engineering root cause analysis (RCA) related to industrial plant Illumination external corrosion.
| Article Type: | Root Cause Analysis (RCA) |
| Category: | Electrical |
| Equipment Type: | Plant illumination |
| Author: | S. Raghava Chari |
Note: This root cause analysis (RCA) is from real-time scenarios that happened in industries during the tenure of two or three decades ago. These articles will help you to improve your troubleshooting skills and knowledge.
Industrial Plant illumination Problem
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Solution
The below-given steps eliminated the entire problems:
- Substitute the metallic lighting fixtures with FRP fixtures assembled with threads greased SS screws
- Substitute energy wasting and short lives incandescent lamps with energy saving long life mercury vapor lamps, sodium vapor lamps etc.
- PVC chain-suspend incandescent lamps – inevitable in vibrating machines areas. The pipe suspensions transmit the structure shakes to the lamps; but chains do not. Hence, the lamps would last longer
Replace corrosion end of lives steel poles with concrete poles. Most plants’ crew can develop designs and make these. Initial costs are lower and no periodic painting saves still more.
Author: S. Raghava Chari
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