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Failure
Investigation
Determining the root causes of failure to prevent
additional lost opportunity costs
The absence of a root cause investigation and implementation of corrective
action dramatically increases the risk of additional failures of boilers,
reboilers and heat exchangers. Our investigation includes a review of historical
operating data, review of the metallurgical analyses and discussions with
operating personnel and the chemical supplier service representative. Our
report identifies the root causes of the failure and prioritizes recommendations
for corrective actions.
Examples of our failure investigations
- Cat Cooler (waste heat boiler) failure due to under-deposit corrosion
caused by a lack of conformance to specifications for boiler water chemistry.
- download
PDF case history
- Debutanizer failure due to under-deposit corrosion caused by poor
control of chemical treatment program and subsequent deactivation of
copper corrosion inhibitor. - download
PDF case history
- Reboiler failure due to improper chemical water treatment for deposit
control.
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Competition
will increase as the electric utility industry deregulates.
Plants may have to reduce their staff and lose their most experienced personnel
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