Optimizing maintenance strategies for reciprocating compressors using reliability-centered maintenance and on-line fault diagnosis system

Reciprocating compressors are important equipment for oil companies, which undertake the task of transporting BOG gas. With the use of China's reciprocating compressor online fault diagnosis system, the efficiency and economy of the maintenance and management of reciprocating compressor equipment can be further improved. RCM theory is a widely used theory in the international preventive maintenance decision-making, this paper introduces RCM theory into the maintenance decision of reciprocating compressor, combines the failure frequency, safety consequences, maintenance consequences and other factors, improves the content of FMECA analysis, and determines the risk of each equipment and failure of reciprocating compressor. Finally, combined with the fault diagnosis system installed by the enterprise, a new maintenance logic decision-making scheme and process are proposed.