#406 - Heat Exchangers - Advanced Reliability Course
Course Objective
Upon completion of this course, participants will understand how applying advanced reliability results in up to a 30% decrease of plant heat exchanger annual maintenance costs by revealing and resolving problems with the “bad actor” exchangers. At the end of the course, an (optional) one-day workshop is offered to apply the course’s methodologies and tools to reliability improvements of local heat exchanger problems defined by the course participants.
Who Should Attend?
Reliability stewards, technical/operations support department engineers and managers, project engineers, and turnaround planners.
Course Description
This course will present the latest industry achievements in increasing reliability of heat exchangers across the plant through the following topics:
- A methodology to reveal and resolve bad actor exchangers that will demonstrate a considerable decrease of plant annual heat exchanger maintenance costs and reduce lost opportunity costs caused by problem exchanger outages.
- Experience with troubleshooting typical heat exchanger problems at pipestills, catalytic reformers, and catalytic crackers.
- Reliable design of Cooling Tower Water (CTW) coolers and reliability improvements to CTW coolers during planning and execution of plant turnarounds.
- Positive and negative experience with the application of advanced heat transfer technologies as follows:
- Plate-and-frame heat exchangers (gasket and welded)
- Spiral exchangers
- Antifouling polymer and epoxy coatings on tube ID, tubesheets, floating head covers, and channel boxes
- Antifouling inside-the-tubes turbulence promoters
- Nucleate boiling tubes
- Twisted tubes
- Gaskets for use in service experiencing high temperature swings (camprofile, spiral wound, metallic-o-rings
- Guide for project specialists on reliable design of new heat exchangers.
- Step-by-step guide for operations support department mechanical engineers on troubleshooting typical heat exchanger problems.
Course Duration - 3-4 days
Four days: three days presentation followed by (optional) one day workshop where the participants will apply the course learning to the actual resolution of local heat exchanger problems of their choice.
