Amarinth has refurbished sodium hypochlorite dosing pumps for ADNOC on schedule utilizing its facility in the United Arab Emirates to meet strict shutdown deadlines.
Engineers test a newly refurbished sodium hypochlorite dosing pump for ADNOC at Amarinth’s facility in UAE – Image courtesy of Amarinth.
The UK company provided the original pumps to ADNOC in 2016 for sodium hypochlorite dosing duties on the Umm Lulu offshore platform situated in the Arabian Gulf, 30km north-west of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Because sodium hypochlorite is highly corrosive, Amarinth originally used titanium alloy for all wetted components.
During a routine capital assessment, ADNOC determined the pumps were due for refurbishment. The sodium hypochlorite dosing pumps are important to production and refurbishment had to align precisely with a particular shutdown schedule.
The shutdown schedule wouldn’t allow the pumps to be returned to the UK for a full strip, assessment and refurbishment, so Amarinth used its UAE facility to undertake the work.
Amarinth’s UAE facility was capable of full the strip and assessment report within five working days and suggest two refurbishment projects. The first involved a full rebuild, test and warranty of the first pump changing all the titanium parts together with impeller, shaft, bearing brackets and mechanical seals. The work needed to be accomplished in simply eight weeks. เพรสเชอร์เกจลม prioritised the ordering of the titanium elements and was able to have the components manufactured and shipped to the UAE to align with the rebuild schedule. The second project undertook the same work on the opposite two backup pumps to be completed on a 24-week schedule.
Oliver Brigginshaw, managing director of Amarinth, stated: “Having provided the unique pumps to ADNOC we’ve a wealth of experience in working with titanium parts. We are additionally happy with the expansion of our local UAE facility for service and help and which enabled us to efficiently expediate this specific refurbishment, benefiting both ADNOC and the native economic system.”
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