Plant Equipment Performance and Efficiency Calculation
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Plant Equipment Performance and Efficiency Calculation Course
Introduction:
The comprehensive process of planning, building, and commissioning wind- and photovoltaic-powered systems will be covered in detail in this intense course. This thorough training covers all the essential topics so you can create basic designs. After the training, you can further explore the design and installation challenges by doing more research or working with subject-matter specialists. The solar and wind energy industries have shown a continuous yearly growth rate of over 30% in recent years, with triple digit growth rates in certain regional markets. Thus, this is an excellent industry to concentrate on for a career during these difficult economic times.
Course Objectives:
The participants will understand and can implement significant items:
- Directly tie production efficiencies to fiscal reporting
- Reduce investigation time for root cause analysis
- Shorten equipment ROI through increased utilization
- Decrease costs through waste elimination
- Increase customer satisfaction through quality improvement
- OEE allows companies to pull separate business functions together with a single useful metric
- reduce maintenance or operating costs
- Easily identify potential risks to production assets
- Leverage professional support from industry experts
- Increase productivity and reduce costs
- Apply and gain an in-depth knowledge on various elements of process plant performance in order to improve the efficiency
- Enumerate the characterization of catalyst and the ideal reactor and identify their performance
- Discuss the various thermal and mechanical separation processes and determine the performance of crystallization, adsorption, chemisorptions, and ion exchange
- Recognize the performance of pipelines, pumps and compressors as well as the efficiency of off- site utilities such as the electrical energy, cooling water, steam, and refrigeration
- Discuss the importance of proper waste disposal and its impact performance and efficiency
- Employ systematic methodology in measurements and control technology and their major role in plant performance and efficiency.
- Enhance knowledge on collecting various data as chemical data, mass balance, physicochemical data and processing variables as inputs for process optimization procedure.
- Identify the various optimization tools used in process plant performance and determine the refinery and process plant optimization trends.
- Discuss the continuous improvement, benchmarking and best practices for process plant performance and efficiency
- Carryout troubleshooting procedures and identify the different performance analysis software used in process plant performance in relation to process optimization and performance monitoring
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for all those concerned with the process plant performance and efficiency including Planning Staff, Instrumentation & Control Staff, Production & Operation Staff, Process, Electrical, Mechanical and Project Engineers, Panel Operator, Engineer and Supervisor. Management can also appreciate the importance of the new tools available to achieve the plant objectives of today and meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Course Outlines:
Effective Asset Management
- Not Knowing What You Have
- over or Under Maintenance
- Improper Operation
- Improper Risk Management
- Sub-optimized Asset Management Systems
Equipment Performance Monitoring
- Equipment Data Collection
- Equipment Data
- Failure data
- Maintenance data
- Failure descriptors
- Failure descriptors
- Failure causes
- Method of detection
- Maintenance activity
- Pump data
- Compressor data
- Gas turbine data
- Monitoring and Analysis
- condition monitoring
- condition base maintenance
- failure analysis
- root case failure
- failure mode and effect analysis
Report Interpretation and Corrective Actions
Fracas Failure Reporting, Analysis, And Corrective Action System
- Failure Reporting
- Collecting the Data
- Reporting Equipment Failures
- Reporting Software Problems
- Logging Data
- Using FRACAS Reports
- Analysis
- Failure Analysis Process
- Failure Review Board
- Root Cause Analysis
- Failed Parts Procurement
- Corrective action
- Fracas functions and responsibilities
Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis
- Introduction
- Timing of LCC analysis
- Basic Process of LCC Analysis
- LCC Sub-processes
- Process 1: Problems definition
- Process 2: Cost elements definition
- Process 4: Data collection
- Process 5: Cost profile development
- Process 6: Evaluation
- Reporting of LCC analysis
- Samples of cost elements definition
- Benchmarked
- Reducing Maintenance Costs
Performance measurement using overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- What is OEE?
- Fast track roadmap