【Sea River: Lessons from Others】Jinzhou Petrochemical’s slurry pumps have been replaced with domestically produced alternatives

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Jinzhou Petrochemical’s slurry pumps have been replaced with domestic alternatives. China Petroleum News, June 21, 2024, 23:18, Beijing. “After the substitution of imported slurry pumps with domestic ones, the operating current has decreased by 30%, resulting in significant energy savings and reduced consumption.” ”On June 18, 2024, Jiang Qiang, a senior expert in petroleum refining at Jinzhou Petrochemical Company and the person in charge of the project to localize the oil slurry pumps used in Unit 1, explained this to reporters. Vigorously promoting the substitution of imported equipment with domestic alternatives is one of the measures taken by Jinzhou Petrochemical to create a \"value-added\" version that enhances quality and efficiency. The localization of the slurry pump has reduced equipment procurement costs by over 50%, saving more than 700,000 yuan in electricity costs annually. Jinzhou Petrochemical adheres to the philosophy that \"all costs can be reduced,\" integrating the requirement to manage expenses carefully with efforts to improve quality and efficiency as well as enhance competitiveness, and taking various measures to fully tap into potential for cost reduction. In June 2023, Jinzhou Petrochemical officially launched the project to upgrade domestic fuel slurry pumps. Earlier on, the company organized relevant personnel to adjust the design parameters of domestic slurry pumps for similar equipment, and conducted a piping feasibility analysis, confirming that the domestic pumps met the production requirements. In April this year, after going through a series of stages including civil infrastructure construction, equipment installation, process piping, electrical and instrumentation work and commissioning, as well as individual unit tests, the project was ready for trial operation. The project team promptly organized and efficiently carried out tasks such as the \"three inspections and four determinations,\" hydraulic testing, interlock verification, inverter testing, as well as the formulation and approval of the pump testing plan. At the end of May, the relevant personnel followed the established plan strictly, gradually adjusting various parameters, carefully documenting and resolving any issues that arose, thereby completing the testing process successfully. On June 12, the domestically produced slurry pump was put into operation. All performance parameters such as current, flow rate, and vibration met the requirements of the operating conditions, and it operated stably with excellent performance.