Tag: valve maintenance

For Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District (EVMWD), serving 163,000 customers across 97 square miles in Southern California, the challenge of maintaining 385 valves at 150 sites demands a sophisticated solution to enhance accuracy, streamline maintenance scheduling, and improve asset management.

There is a reason they do not make Super Bowl beer commercials about maintaining draft lines, sanitizing bottles and equipment, keeping the beer fridge stocked, and other preventative measures; it is boring.

In any industrial fluid system, valves are essential components.

Power generation and process industries require large quantities of valves that may vary in size, type, and values to regulate the flow of different media types.

Power generation and process industries require large quantities of valves that may vary in size, type, and values to regulate the flow of different media types. While in service, valve seats can be damaged from exposure to the process’ media as they must withstand heat, pressure, and foreign matter. Therefore, regular maintenance is required to prevent costly downtime due to seat damage.

From refineries and cooling systems to tank farms, safety valves protect plants against damage caused by overpressure. Safety valves undergo routine maintenance to make sure they always operate flawlessly.

EnerMech, with operations in the USA, Mexico and the West Indies, has recently launched a “door-to-door” valves maintenance service in South Africa. The group, which employs 2,400 people around the world, has equipped two mobile testing rigs capable of certifying and servicing valves within a 1,200-mile radius of Cape Town.

Unit 1 at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear plant in Luzerne County, Pa., returned to safe and reliable electricity generation Thursday March 10 after maintenance work on a valve was completed.