Reliability-centered maintenance study on key parts of reciprocating compressor

Reciprocating compressor is the key equipment in the process of industry production such as oil refinery, chemical plants and so on. The traditional maintenance management model is the fire type which results in the lower reliability, lower availability and lower safety. In this paper, in order to reduce the uncertainty of maintenance, the number of system failures and failure effects, as well as to promote operational safety, reliability centered maintenance (RCM) is used to evaluate the reciprocating compressor. After the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), risk matrix is introduced to evaluate the failure mode importance and logic determination method is used to make maintenance strategy for the high risk faults. It provides a technical support to the enterprise safety management.