Strategies for assuring operational reliability of process units: A team effort
- Instituto Colombiano de Petroleo, Bucaramanga (Colombia)
Operational reliability and low operational costs are becoming an important issue in Latin-American Industries. Programs promoting structural integrity and life assessment are becoming part of the strategies of industry to cope with increasingly competitive markets. However, structural integrity and life assessment is not all that is required to attain the goal of operational reliability; it is necessary to integrate in the assessment strategy the relationship between process variables, operational variables, maintenance, inspection, materials science and even instrument reliability. It is also important to take into account environmental regulations and personnel safety. A recent experimental program, aimed at developing and implementing a strategy which combines all the above mentioned aspects, has been undertaken. This article briefly describes an internal ``Guide for Operational Reliability`` developed as part of the program and discusses the Fitness-For-Service assessment of a cracked tower carried out during the first phase of the program.
- OSTI ID:
- 403558
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960706-; ISBN 0-7918-1783-0; TRN: IM9651%%593
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) pressure vessels and piping conference, Montreal (Canada), 21-26 Jul 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Structural integrity, NDE, risk and material performance for petroleum, process and power. PVP-Volume 336; Prager, M. [ed.] [Materials Properties Council, Inc., New York, NY (United States)]; Bagnoli, D.L. [ed.] [Mobil Research and Development, Paulsboro, NJ (United States)]; Warke, W.R. [ed.] [Amoco Corp., Naperville, IL (United States)]; Anyewuenyi, O.A.; Smith, J.P.; Chen, M.; DePadova, T.A.; Weingart, L.J. [eds.]; PB: 400 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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