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Within Few Weeks Failing Acid Dozing Pumps

A plunger pump dozing sulfuric acid to a urea plant’s water treatment ion-exchange vessel stopped pumping after first week end.

Last updated: September 28, 2022 3:19 pm
S Raghava Chari
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Root Cause Analysis (RCA) related to the newly installed acid dozing pumps in a urea plant.

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Acid Dozing PumpsAuthor SolutionProblem Identified and solution foundPump rush restoration Benefits
Article Type:Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Category:Mechanical
Equipment Type:Miscellaneous Rotating Machine Problems
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.

Acid Dozing Pumps

A 15 KW plunger pump dozing sulfuric acid to a Saudi Arabian urea plant’s water treatment ion-exchange vessel stopped pumping after first week end.

The exasperated and desperate field crew left with no spare parts sought Author SOS assistance.

Author Solution

The author unfamiliar with the pump studied the instruction manual and sketched shown in below figure to show essentials.

Plunger Pump

The basics are

A motor driving a crank mechanism reciprocates the oil plunger pump (OPP), creates negative oil pressure in the forward stroke, the rubber diaphragm convex left, draw the acid in the pump chamber.

Plunger return stroke pressures the oil and the acid flows to the process opening the discharge valve. The suction valve closes and prevent acid flow back to the storage tank.

Problem Identified and solution found

brittle, hard, inflexible and cracked diaphragm showed its incompatibility to either sulfuric acid and or oil.

As no spare diaphragm was available, the author got the pump assembled back substituting between two 1.5 mm thick Teflon sheet discs rubber diaphragm cut from 4.5 mm thick conveyor belt – the thinnest available.

Pump rush restoration Benefits

Below given are the benefits of the rush innovative pump restoration:

  1. The assembled pump never failed and averted total ammonia and urea plant shut down
  2. On the vendor provided flimsy diaphragm lost a week only
  3. Both side Teflon sheet protected much stronger conveyor belt cut diaphragm is probably the reason

The acid delivery plunger pump became ‘fit & forget’.

Author: S. Raghava Chari

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