Equipment Basic Maintenance

Provide in-depth knowledge related to the equipment technology and maintenance.

participants will be able to:

1. provide basic understanding of rotating machinery and static equipment installed on plants.
2. describe the operating principle of the rotating machinery and static equipment.
3. list the basic maintenance practices.
4. reliability criteria.

Course Content:

1.  STATIC EQUIPMENT.
2. ROTATING EQUIPMENT.
3. MAINTENANCE GENERAL PRACTICES.

First equipment

• Furnaces and boilers: operating principle; technology, control and safety features
• All types of heat exchangers: technology, selection criteria.
• Tanks and vessels: different types of storage tanks: fixed & floating roof, etc.
• Different types of piping valves and flanges types, valve types, standards and selection criteria. Distillation columns: operating principle; technology, fundamentals.
• Case studies, exercises and applications.

Second equipment

Centrifugal and positive displacement pumps: types, technology and selection criteria. Centrifugal and positive displacement compressors: types, technology and selection criteria; operation. Steam turbines and gas turbines: types, technology; operation and maintenance. Basic machinery reliability, maintenance and troubleshooting. Auxiliaries, lubrication and maintenance of rotating equipment. Risks and failures dealing with these types of rotating equipment. Main maintenance procedures. Vendor recommendations vs. operating constraints.

Third Part:

Types of maintenance: preventive, corrective, condition-based. Fundamentals of reliability analysis and improvement methods: FMECA: failure modes, effects and their criticality analysis, failure trees, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). How to use Key Performance Indicators to measure, evaluate and enhance equipment performances.