Oil refineries and Petrochemical plants often halt routine production & operations to conduct preventive maintenance, revamps and upgrades. The whole plant is stopped for an extended period of time, usually measured in numbers of shifts and even number of days or months, to do equipment preventive maintenance and care; corrective repair; strip-down and overhaul; or component replacement work. And that’s what is called Shutdown Turnaround Plant Maintenance.

What are the types of Turnaround | Shutdown? & explain?

There are two types of Shutdown

Planned Shutdown

These situations are prepared and organized over many weeks and months prior to the work being done. For shutdowns of large industrial operations or for complex, difficult situations, the planning, scheduling, and organizing of work and resources can even take years to do.

Unplanned Shutdown

There can be occasions where you have a forced plant outage or a forced maintenance outage. These are stoppages which are unplanned events causing the operation of equipment to stop. They may be equipment breakdowns, They can also be disruption of services, like utility power supply loss or unavailability of raw materials.

What are the Types of Shutdown Projects?

Plant Maintenance Shutdown project planning and scheduling is an important function that has a direct and dramatic impact on maintenance costs and bottom-line profitability of a process plant.

Maintenance costs are the result of the expenditure of manpower, equipment, and materials. Keep manpower and equipment usage efficient, and you will control your Shutdown Turnaround Plant Maintenance costs.

All the major process industries like refining, petrochemicals, power generation, etc., have their own terminology for maintenance projects. “Shutdown” is intended to encompass all types of industrial projects for existing process plants