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Webinar Recap

The eRefcomm® series rolls on, this time with a more operations focused topic, “Making Sure your Spare Heater Charge Pump is Ready for Action” with the presenter Ryan Schoel from the Coking.com team. The discussion was active in all the platforms, Zoom, Slido, and chat. Thank you for everyone that contributed to the discussion! The following is a summary of the event, but much more information was shared than is presented here. It is a reminder to everyone who stumbles across this page – the eRefComm® events are not recorded and not available after the fact. You need to be there to get the wisdom and experience of the group and the SMEs.

The heater charge pump is the literal heart of the unit. Mean Time Between Repair (MTBR) for most refinery pumps can exceed 48-60+ months for best-in-class refiners in many services. From our kick-off poll question, it was insightful that, with this particular pump, most of the respondents were only achieving a run time of 6-18 months. There were some outliers with 36+ months, but that was only two of the plants represented. It is clear, we as an industry, have our work cut out to improve the reliability of these pumps.

Getting the pumps ready and in hot standby is a critical activity to ensure the long-term health of that spare pump to start in an unexpected basis. Given the short MTBR, it is probable the spare pump will be called upon in a sudden way…typically on a Sunday night or on a holiday.