Towards new technology in valve maintenance

• Ángel Varela ^[1] ; Eduard Montseny ^[1] ; Ramón Grau Mur
  1. [1] Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Maritime Transport'16 / coord. por Francisco Javier Martínez de Osés, Marcella Castells Sanabra, 2016, ISBN 978-84-9880-591-8, págs. 220-239
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The main objective of this paper is to present an innovative technology for valve maintenance on ships. Maintenance benefits from a wide range of technologies, which have often been developed for a different purpose. One of the new tools, which has led to significant advances in the nuclear industry and energy plants, will be described in this paper. It provides methodologies to evaluate motor operated valves functioning under various conditions including design basis. Valve diagnostics make it possible to implement a condition based maintenance program, avoiding typically more extensive preventive maintenance procedures.