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IIT-Madras partners with IOC
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras),signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd to enter a technical cooperation to develop Specification for the Hybrid Inspection System for Reformer Tubes under MOC-Phase-III.
Hyderabad: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras),signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd to enter a technical cooperation to develop Specification for the Hybrid Inspection System for Reformer Tubes under MOC-Phase-III.
Tubes are used in several industries for Hydrogen Crackers. Reformer tubes normally used in the refining, petrochemical and fertiliser industries are manufactured by the centrifugal casting process and heat-resistant austenitic alloys such as HK -40, HP-40, and HP -Niobium modified materials.
A design life of 100,000 operating hours has been the normal time-based criteria for considering retirement of tubes. Many operators of furnaces using such tubes desire to change their maintenance philosophy for tube retirement to condition-based assessment rather than time-based assessment.
At a cost of several thousands of dollars per tube and a retubing cost of $1MM-$4MM, a significant amount of capital can be inadvertently applied if tubes are retired either too early or too late.
In this project, a new approach to the Non-destructive Evaluation of reformer tube creep damage that can be employed in the industry will be developed and validated in a collaborative effort between the Centre for Non-destructive Evaluation at IIT Madras and IOCL (R&D) Faridabad.
“MoU between IIT Madras and Indian Oil Corporation Limited will help enhance productivity, increase efficiency and reduce cost. IIT Madras is happy to collaborate with PSUs for their industrial research requirement” said Prof Krishnan Balasubramaniam, Head of Centre for Non-destructive Evaluation (CNDE), IIT Madras and Dean of Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (ICSR).
