Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage

Heat exchanger is one of important equipments used in industry nowadays, especially in petrochemical plant. It is functioned to cool down or rise up the temperature of medium which flow through it by using two different medium. During internship period at Petrochemical Plant in Terengganu, author ha...

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Main Author: Nur ‘Atikah bt Jamaludin Alias, Nur ‘Atikah
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.26552017-01-25T09:41:17Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/ Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage Nur ‘Atikah bt Jamaludin Alias, Nur ‘Atikah TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Heat exchanger is one of important equipments used in industry nowadays, especially in petrochemical plant. It is functioned to cool down or rise up the temperature of medium which flow through it by using two different medium. During internship period at Petrochemical Plant in Terengganu, author had an opportunity to face a real case study, which is regarding the Heat Exchanger Tube leakage. During shut down in November 2010, it is found that one of the heat exchanger tube bundles available in the plant was leak. The affected heat exchanger used to cool down ethylene gas after it being compressed by the compressor. The ethylene gas is the main gas used in the plant as it will be processed to become Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). Heat exchanger tube leak is one of the problems in petrochemical plant that keep reoccurring although appropriate action had been taken before. The objectives of this project were to perform failure analysis on the heat exchanger tube bundle and to suggest possible solutions so that this problem will not keep reoccurring in the future. In this project, author focused on the failure analysis methodology to reduce the risk of heat exchanger to fail again in the future. Methodology of this project was based on the standard and study performed by the author. The findings of this project were High TDS from cooling water caused by filter media break through from the side stream filter, accumulation of solids leading to deposition/pitting at the U-bend portion of the heat exchanger, drain port available but no drain line installed, damage/peeled of coating due to mechanical method of cleaning and Low inter-baffle shell side velocity, which lead to several recommendation to improve the performance of heat exchanger in the future. Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2012-01 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/1/content10925.pdf application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/2/ABSTRACT10925.pdf application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/3/dissertation__part_1_10925.pdf application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/4/Dissertation_Atikah10925.pdf Nur ‘Atikah bt Jamaludin Alias, Nur ‘Atikah (2012) Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage. Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Sri Iskandar, Tronoh, Perak. (Unpublished)
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Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage
description Heat exchanger is one of important equipments used in industry nowadays, especially in petrochemical plant. It is functioned to cool down or rise up the temperature of medium which flow through it by using two different medium. During internship period at Petrochemical Plant in Terengganu, author had an opportunity to face a real case study, which is regarding the Heat Exchanger Tube leakage. During shut down in November 2010, it is found that one of the heat exchanger tube bundles available in the plant was leak. The affected heat exchanger used to cool down ethylene gas after it being compressed by the compressor. The ethylene gas is the main gas used in the plant as it will be processed to become Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). Heat exchanger tube leak is one of the problems in petrochemical plant that keep reoccurring although appropriate action had been taken before. The objectives of this project were to perform failure analysis on the heat exchanger tube bundle and to suggest possible solutions so that this problem will not keep reoccurring in the future. In this project, author focused on the failure analysis methodology to reduce the risk of heat exchanger to fail again in the future. Methodology of this project was based on the standard and study performed by the author. The findings of this project were High TDS from cooling water caused by filter media break through from the side stream filter, accumulation of solids leading to deposition/pitting at the U-bend portion of the heat exchanger, drain port available but no drain line installed, damage/peeled of coating due to mechanical method of cleaning and Low inter-baffle shell side velocity, which lead to several recommendation to improve the performance of heat exchanger in the future.
format Final Year Project
author Nur ‘Atikah bt Jamaludin Alias, Nur ‘Atikah
author_facet Nur ‘Atikah bt Jamaludin Alias, Nur ‘Atikah
author_sort Nur ‘Atikah bt Jamaludin Alias, Nur ‘Atikah
title Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage
title_short Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage
title_full Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage
title_fullStr Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage
title_full_unstemmed Failure Analysis on Heat Exchanger Tube Bundle Leakage
title_sort failure analysis on heat exchanger tube bundle leakage
publisher Universiti Teknologi Petronas
publishDate 2012
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/1/content10925.pdf
http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/2/ABSTRACT10925.pdf
http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/3/dissertation__part_1_10925.pdf
http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/2655/4/Dissertation_Atikah10925.pdf
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