RCA analysis on the submersible sump pump BU0505, at the sebastopol station (2022)

Abstract

CenIT's Sebastopol station is a main node for the transport of refined hydrocarbon products, which is critical for fueling the central region of Colombia. Within the hydrocarbon pumping systems there is a sump that has the function of channeling and storing the hydrocarbon that is packaged in the transport line and requires to be drained for the preventive and corrective maintenance activities of the main units, , this sump has a submersible pump, which performs the suction of the product from the bottom of the well, this equipment has presented recurrent failures in the same year and a repeated number of warnings generated for its attention, resulting in a high risk of contamination of the environment that is harmful to the fauna and flora of the region by the overflow of the sink. For the development of this work, the starting point was the collection of information and bibliographic review on submersible pumps and through the cause-effect methodology the causes for which this high failure rate was presented, which was affecting the reliability of the submersible pump, was determined.