Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical completed turnaround ahead of schedule
On January 16, Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical’s atmospheric and vacuum units produced qualified products, marking the company’s successful completion of a plant-wide overhaul 6 days ahead of schedule. Using current petrochemicals market price, a benefit in excess of 120 million yuan could be realized. The established plan for the overhaul cycle was 50 days.
The overhaul involved 5,307 activities, 7,000 management tashs and various types of operating personnel participated. On-site operation covered a wide range. A wide range of machinery and equipment types were used in large quantities
Specifically, the overhaul included inspecting 1,800 pieces of pressure vessels and 775 km of pressure piping; overhauling 40 towers, 130 pumps and 8 units; extracting 800 heat exchanger cores; overhauling 10 substations plus electrical lines, two separate DCS systems, 5,000 valves; and welding a total amount of 110,533 inch diameters. In addition, there were 237 technical renovation projects and 190 second-phase projects that were reserved for later development projects
During the overhaul, Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical strictly implemented HSE management principle and did a good job in every operation link. In the end, it reported zero safety accidents, zero environmental accidents, zero major accidents, proudly accomplished the set goal of a "Gas won’t go up into the air and oil won’t fall onto the ground (zero discharge of pollutants)” overhaul.
Source: Sinoche Group press release
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