Celeros Flow Technology has injected new life into a heritage pump for a Canadian heavy oil restoration customer, enabling them to increase manufacturing. The pump – a Mather & Platt BB5 – was greater than forty years old and had been subject to numerous post-installation alterations.
Heavy oil deposits are extremely viscous and require the injection of high pressure, excessive temperature steam to enhance fluidity and allow the oil to be pumped to the floor. In order to boost extraction on this challenge, the client needed to increase water temperatures from 90° C to 140° C. However, there have been concerns that the prevailing pump could not be succesful of deliver this requirement. Nozzle masses had been a particular concern. They turned to Celeros Flow Technology brand ClydeUnion Pumps, their most popular provider of some 20 years, for assistance.
ร้านซ่อมเครื่องวัดความดัน & Platt is one of several heritage pump manufacturers for which Celeros Flow Technology provides full lifecycle support1. Their aftermarket engineering group undertook a thorough examination of the quadragenarian Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) boiler feed water pump used in the heavy oil extraction course of. The investigation revealed that the pump had suffered a variety of seal failures over time that had broken the stuffing box and affected operational efficiency. There had additionally been no maintenance interventions for many years – however the pump had by no means really failed.
Says Mike Golds, Global Upgrade and Rerate Programme Manager for ClydeUnion Pumps: “It is testomony to the quality of the unique pump that it had continued to operate in such harsh conditions and with no regular maintenance over such an extended period of time. More importantly, it gave us confidence that a thorough overhaul could achieve the desired improvement in performance, saving the client the fee and misplaced production time that may be related to sourcing and installing a new unit.”
Celeros Flow Technology overhauled the SAGD pump and carried out a mechanical seal improve and Plan 23 seal flush to optimize pump performance. In addition, finite factor analysis was undertaken to verify that the nozzle hundreds would stand up to the specified temperature increase. As a end result, the pump is now able to delivering steam on the greater temperatures required. The seal upgrades guarantee it meets the most recent specs.
Concludes Mike Golds: “We are really happy with the finish result of the SAGD pump improve. It has not solely achieved the specified production enhance for the client, but in addition offered a more sustainable and cost-effective answer than whole pump alternative. Using fashionable engineering and analysis, we’ve been capable of give the present pump a new lease of life and ensure it will continue to carry out well for many extra years.”
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