Almost all petrochemical plants and refineries use water as a utility for heating, cooling or purifying the process stream. The plant often assumes that the water quality is adequate. A lack of attent..
Almost all petrochemical plants and refineries use water as a utility for heating, cooling or purifying the process stream. The plant often assumes that the water quality is adequate. A lack of attention to utility water and steam quality can cause corrosion of critical process equipment such as heat exchangers and reboilers resulting in excess costs, un-planned outages and reduced service life. It can also cause turbine blade damage, turbine outages and expensive rebuild requirements.
We recommend a program of basic monitoring for all process units to maximize equipment reliability, extend service life and reduce costs. Four important steps are needed to create a monitoring program
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