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Repeat Control Valve Plug Stem and Gland Leaks

Instrumentation engineering root cause analysis (RCA) of repeat control valve plug stem and gland leaks problem.

Last updated: September 28, 2022 3:02 pm
S Raghava Chari
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Instrumentation engineering root cause analysis (RCA) of repeat control valve plug stem and gland leaks.

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Control Valve Plug Stem and Gland LeaksRoot Cause AnalysisRCA SolutionBenefits
Article Type:Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Category:Instrumentation
Equipment Type:Control Valves
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.

Control Valve Plug Stem and Gland Leaks

A 4” 1500 # angle valve controls 220 bars CO2 feed to the urea reactor and another ammonium carbomate liquid feed.

Both valves plug stem found scored during packing changes. Hence, eliminating plug scoring the root cause would solve the problem.

Root Cause Analysis

The author’s guess is carbomate solution reaches the bottom-most packing ring via SS 316 support ring annulus clearance. → It solidifies into glass hard sharp crystals in the packing → these score the plug stem. → hence the gland leaks.

The CO2 carried over carbomate scored the other valve stem likewise.

Control Valve Plug Stem and Gland Leaks

RCA Solution

Thinking hard the author hit on an Idea: Just shift the bottom-most packing below the support ring. It worked.

Maybe because of no clearance, negligible carbomate soaks into it; nearness to a hot flowing stream does not allow it crystalizing.

In addition, after shutdown pipeline condensate washes wash away carbomate if any., Hence, no stem scoring and no gland leaks

Benefits

Realized benefits are

  1. Repeated new plugs making, associated valve dissemble, assemble, taking out the valves from the pipelines, putting back, and gadkets renewal high expenses vanished
  2. Elimination to this shutdown job reduced plant shutdown (SD) workload and cut down shut down times.

Author: S. Raghava Chari

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