About 75 per cent of oil refinary and petro chemical plants in Japan have been operated for over twenty years since they were constructed.
The phenomena of deterioration in chemical plants are increasing steadily, along with operation for this long period.
About 22 per cent of the causes of troubles on high perssure gas plants are closely related to maintaining equipment, such as deterioration, unsuitable repair work, and insufficient inspection.
The second largest cause of trouble is design error in equipment (14.7%).
Therefore, precise application of planed diagnosis techniques for the equipment is very useful to prevent the increase of troubles in chemical plants.
The typical kinds of failures in chemical plants change with operating period. For example, the instances of stress corrosion cracking decrease, while on the other hand, outside corrosion problems on towers, vessels and piping come to the surface.
Consequently, new developing inspection and diagnosis techniques will always be requested for maintenance of chemical plants. And recently, the results of inspection and diagnosis data for chemical plants are managed systematically using personal computers.
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