The Challenge
Maintaining plant availability whilst managing costs and risks is a common challenge for all asset intensive industries.
Identifying faults which lead to extended & costly repairs is difficult when the anomaly is buried in the noise of data.
The Solution
Our Advanced Pattern Recognition application provides a highly accurate and intuitive monitoring solution.
High scalability features enable entire assets to be screened, ensuring a comprehensive PdM strategy.
Customer Case Study - HP Bypass Valve
Advanced Pattern Recognition (APR) identified that our clients HP Bypass valve was ~3% open when predicted to be closed.
Initial investigations by the clients O&M Team suggested a feedback position error, but APR shed further insight by identifying ~0.6t/h of water injection flow and ~1.7t/h of bypass steam flow.
On-line testing confirmed the valve was indeed passing and created a targeted maintenance action for the next planned outage.
Misalignment of the valve positioner mechanism was found to have caused a feedback error resulting in the valve failing to close. This was corrected during the planned outage, avoiding unplanned downtime and minimising consequential damage and loss.
Benefits
- Targeted Maintenance
- No Lost Production
- Improved Efficiency
- Managed Risk
