INDUSTRIAL ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS FOR MAINTENANCE OF ALL ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT WITH FUEL DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN AN EXISTING REFINERY DEPOT PLANT

Abstract

Depot facilities are industrial equipments used for the storage of oil, gas and petrochemical products etc., and from which these products are usually transported to end users or for further storages. In the maintenance and sustainability of keeping fuel delivery systems in safe checks, there are needs to derive standard programs to achieving these objectives. Maintenance is a combination of technical and administrative activities to keep a machine or equipment in its functional state. Machines or equipment with poor maintenance will result in dysfunction that might likely result to defective products which affect the quality of the products. These involve reliability of the machines and equipments, the manpower and the equipment perform to a standard level of quality assurance. In this research work, the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) result indicate that six potential causes of failure were identified; three causes are critical and high risk priority number (RPN), these are; mechanical damage and cases of sabotage, spillage, potential fire/explosion. The above critical failures should be reduced and taking preventive action and corrective action to eliminate or reduce the failure. The result indicates that the equipment with the highest RPN 300 is pipe, which is that of mechanical damage and sabotage. But after implementing preventive and corrective action, the RPN has reduced to 160, when compared with Achilla, (2015). Keywords: Flow, pump, efficiency and reliability