Condition Assessment and Remaining Life Assessment for the Equipments In Operation

As plant ages, various damage mechanisms will eventually cause failures to occur. Application of appropriate damage mechanism models can allow the determination of the safe working life of components well in advance of failure. This enables refurbishment or replacement work to be carried out proactively during planned interventions or shutdowns.

The life of equipments used in Thermal power plants such as HRSGs,Boilers, auxiliaries and their piping systems is finite due to the high temperatures and pressures at which they operate. Assessments for the remnant life of boilers are conducted to assist clients to determine their safety, reliability and to forecast expenditure by supporting future capital expenditure planning for large-scale replacements and routine maintenance.

A feasible and reliable operation for a thermal power plant depends on a professionally developed predictive O&M strategy based on damage mechanisms for each and every equipment/system.

Equipment and Damage mechanism based Condition Assessment is the first step of a reliable Remaining Life Assessment (RLA). A reliable RLA study ensures to avoid unnecessary budgeting for repeated inspections during O&M periods also allowing you to perform condition monitoring assessments for the other uninspected systems of your operating asset.

The analysis of plant operating data is also a key input for the predictive maintenance philosophy as well as the repair and maintenance history data of equipments that enables to reduce repeated inspections carried on for each equipment/system.

Our in house developed methodology depends on various inputs taken from Plant operating data and on site inspection data acquisition.

Damage Mechanism & Equipment Based Condition Monitoring

Remaining Life Assessment