Plant up and running 12 hours after critical chiller shut down
Client: Gulf Coast Chemicals Manufacturer
Location: Gulf Coast, USA
Sectors: Petrochemical and Refining
The Challenge
Failure in chiller critical to entire plant
A Gulf Coast chemical manufacturer of oxo derivative and intermediate products including alcohols, polyols, carboxylic acids, specialty esters, and amines experienced a failure in a critical chiller that shut down its entire Gulf Coast plant. A plant manager estimates a financial loss of over $1,000,000 each day the plant was down. The incident occurred over the weekend and there was great concern that locating a replacement chiller with sufficient capacity would be challenging.