White Paper | Pump Monitoring and What's New with API Standard 682

Asset Management • IIoT • Maintenance • Management • Pumps

White Paper | Pump Monitoring and What’s New with API Standard 682

Grant Gerke | June 3, 2016

This white paper from Emerson Process Management, released in July 2015, delves into the ramifications of the API 682 standard for pump sealing systems in the oil and gas and chemical industries. The standard provides new roadmaps for operations and maintenance (O&P) teams on how to move towards continuous monitoring of pump systems.

This paper examines asset management strategies, along with IIoT foundation solutions, as seen below from this except:

According to API Standard 682 Fourth Edition, offshore platforms, onshore wellheads, refineries, and petrochemical plants need to evaluate what pump monitoring measurements are in place, which measurements require manual field checks, and which should be automated or upgraded to a better option.

Due to the costs associated with monitoring the process using wired instruments, only a small percentage of a typical process facility’s pumps are monitored online. The balance of pumps are inspected only periodically by operations or maintenance personnel on field rounds.