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Check Valves: Often Forgotten – Till They Cause Catastrophic Damage

Integrity management of piping systems involves functional testing, inspection and maintenance of components which are identified as “safety critical”.  Typically, these component types include control valves, isolation valves, pressure relief valves and instrumentation – but exclude check valves.  However, recent incidents involving check valve failures have resulted in fatalities, equipment damage and toxic releases.  These […]

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Considerations in Selection of RBI Tools

The world of reliability is shifting from a calendar based approach to a smarter, risk-based approach in the hydrocarbon production and refining world.  The leadership teams are now expecting a risk-based program in place for minimizing the HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) and economic consequences as much as possible.  Some states have mandated the use […]

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Reliability Gap Assessment – A Critical Step to Improve Unit Reliability

Every Refinery whether small or big, isolated or a part of a larger group generally has practices to improve reliability of operations.  However, refineries who are known to be world class performers have well defined Reliability Management Systems (RMS) which focus on improving equipment reliability for piping, pressure vessels, rotating equipment, electrical distribution system, instrumentation […]

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