Workshop on Chiller Plant: Start-Up, Operations, Maintenance & Troubleshooting

Program Overview:

This is a practical maintenance engineering training course enabling delegates from technical and production disciplines to understand the rudiments of functional responsibilities that guarantees high level of Chiller Plant availability and reliability. This 5-Day Course teaches the practicality of Chiller Maintenance in a most suitable manner ready for implementation and monitoring.

For Whom:

This course is designed for all levels of Technical Personnel in the oil & Gas Industry as well as in Chemical and Process Industries but will greatly benefit Technical Personnel in charge of Production, Maintenance & Operations Engineers, Chiller Operators, Supervisors and Engineering Managers

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• explain the concept of Chiller Plants and their applications;
• comprehend the derivation, calculation & application of reliability centered maintenance to Chiller Plants;
• measure the effectiveness and efficiency of Chiller Plant Maintenance functions;
• evaluate investment opportunities in maintenance engineering for Chiller Plants;
• make Chiller Plant availability and reliability based on production planning models;
• apply a cost-benefit analysis of Chiller maintenance activities with respect to production high level timing goals; and
• manage the uncertainty and risk in the maintenance of Chiller Plants.

Course Outline:

Day 1: The Chiller Plant: Definition, Concepts, And Principles & Designs

• Pros and Cons of Various Maintenance Systems Applicable to Chiller Plant
• Chiller Plant Failure and Consequence Projections

Day 2: Approaches to Chiller Plants Maintenance strategies

• Systematic Approach to Chiller Plants Maintenance: MTTR, MTBF, FTE, etc. analysis
• Planning & Implementation of RCM for Chiller Plant
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of RCMS in Chiller Plant

Day 3: RCM and Chiller Plant Standard Operating Principles

• How Chiller Plant maintenance has evolved
• Sources of best practice and benchmarking options
• The pitfalls of traditional maintenance practices
• Understanding where money should be invested and

where money tends to be wasted

• The importance of Chiller Plant Maintenance planning

Day 4: Improving Chiller Plant Reliability

• The relationship between fixed costs and

 maintenance performance

• A change in thinking
• Away from cost reduction or reliability or safety
• Towards cost reduction and reliability and safety

Day 5: The modern Chiller Plant maintenance

strategy and asset management

• Chiller Plant maintenance innovation and integration

with operating teams

• Chiller Plant cost, risk and value engineering
• Auditing and assurance processes for compliance with

Chiller Plant reliability processes

• Conforming with local legislation and relevant standards

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.