Instrumentation engineering root cause analysis of serious constraints which prevent using an available turbine flow meter.
Article Type: | Root Cause Analysis (RCA) |
Category: | Instrumentation |
Equipment Type: | Sensors |
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.
A 750 T/d NH3 plant had no flow meter to measure the total NH3 production. Their estimated NH3 production by following a certain method was highly inaccurate.
The plant management ignored the author pointing out the need for an accurate and reliable method to measure this important plant parameter. His few years of persistent efforts made them to realize the validity of the Author’s plea.
They relented and approved the turbine meter (TM) installation during a month hence scheduled the fourth two-yearly TA i.e. 8 years after commissioning!
Faced constraints are:
The author found a 3” 150 # turbine flow meter in a less important application. He checked and confirmed the meter body wall thickness adequacy for the 300 # rating. He got approval for using it and put a flanged spool in its place
He got the turbine meter flanges machined off to raised face dia. The wafer TM bolted between 300 # line flanges during the TA (below figure – a solution one and all appreciated).
Author: S. Raghava Chari
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