A study on the development of prognosis system for offshore plant equipment

Abstract

The offshore plant equipment usually has a long life cycle. During its O&M (Operation & Maintenance) phase, since the occurrence of an accident of an offshore plant equipment causes catastrophic damage, it is necessary to make more efforts for managing critical offshore equipment. Nowadays due to the emerging ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) and sensor technologies, it is possible to send health monitoring information to administrator of an offshore plant in real time, which leads to much concern on CBM (Condition-Based Maintenance). In this study, we have reviewed previous studies associated with CBM of offshore plants, and introduced case studies of prognosis system development predicting performance and failures of offshore plant equipment such as compressor and pump tower.