6/20/2010

PM Task Report

Component Type: Valve - Check - Swing

Task Name: Internal Inspection
Template Category: Critical, High Duty, Severe Conditions
Task Interval: 6Y
Task Objective
The Internal Inspection is the only PM task that can provide complete information on clearances and the
condition of all wear surfaces and internal parts. The intervals are not explicitly determined by the
failure mode data because of the sensitivity to system conditions, so there could be an opportunity for
diagnostic information to play a role in determining plant specific intervals.

Task Content
Internal Inspection is expected to completely refurbish and restore the check valve to original equipment
condition and should include:
- Check for debris and damage to seat, hinge arm, and disk
- Inspect for loose, damaged, or missing parts
- Inspect that the check arm and disk assembly moves freely and easily
- Inspect for damage, unusual wear, cracked, or missing disk pin or post
- Inspect disk arm disk post hole and disk hinge pin hole for unusual wear
- Check for erosion and corrosion of the valve body, disk, disk arm, and hinge pin
- Check for proper alignment of the disk or plug assembly and the seat
- Inspect for cracked, chipped, or distorted seats
- Inspect for crud build up
- Clean and lubricate all parts as required
- Check for evidence of leakage around or near the valve body cover gasket, hinge pin cover, valve
position indicators, fasteners, pipe flanges and connections.

Principle Failure Location And Causes:

Internal Inspection is the only PM task that can provide complete information on clearances and the
condition of all wear surfaces and internal parts.

Progression Of Degradation In Time:

This task is able to identify most of the failure mechanisms which can affect check valves, but is only
somewhat useful for the approximately 50% of them which are random on time scales of many years, or
the small fraction of them which are long term wearout types. Even then, most of the failure
mechanisms which are somewhat protected by this task are the ones more likely to occur.

Support For The Task Interval And Relation To Other Tasks:

The shortest interval of 6 years in the harshest conditions is driven mainly by the possibility of erosion of
the seat which has an expected failure free time in the range 5 to 10 years. It is also driven by the
knowledge that many longer time-scale random failure modes could still occur at any time.

Diagnostic tests could be used to review and verify that Internal Inspection is required. This is because
the stated failure-free periods for the Internal Inspection can not completely account for the sensitive
dependence on system conditions, resulting in essentially random failures, even when the degradation
is, in principle, continuous. The performance of the Internal Inspection could therefore be dependent on
the outcome of the condition-directed tasks.

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