Breakout Session E2: Prithiv John
Organisation: TUV Rheinland
Job Title: TBC
Time & Date: 27 March 2025 @ 11:10
Session Title: Lifetime Extension: Learning from the Process Industries
Bio:
Prithiv John is a chartered mechanical engineer with over ten years’ experience in asset integrity management. He has worked on several asset life studies and maintenance and reliability improvement projects. He has expertise in criticality assessment and an interest in how digital technology can be used for predictive maintenance. He works for TÜV Rheinland Industrial Services Ltd in their Warrington office.
Presentation Summary:
Assets operating beyond their original design lives are widespread across the process industries, demonstrating that asset life extension can be done safely and with limited investment required to maintain reliability at acceptable levels. The aim of this presentation is to share with the wind energy sector learning from the oil, gas and chemicals sectors about managing the integrity of ageing assets and extending their lifetimes. Operators in these industries have found performing an asset life assessment vital to identify the investment required to maintain asset integrity over a given extension period to the asset operating life. Experience has shown that a top-down, primarily qualitative assessment approach that covers all components of the asset is the most effective way to quickly generate meaningful insight. An asset life assessment methodology is presented that includes steps for identifying, reviewing and mitigating the key issues affecting asset life; determining a view of equipment life based upon deterioration mechanisms and obsolescence; identifying the future investment required (CAPEX); and providing the recommended actions to maintain integrity and reliability. One of the actions typically recommended is to carry out a maintenance policy review for the asset, which ensures that maintenance tasks and frequencies continue to adequately mitigate failure risks and vulnerabilities as the asset ages and new failure modes potentially emerge. A case study is presented of a maintenance policy review of a wind turbine installed offshore in the UK sector of the North Sea.