Maintenance and repair

Maintenance and repair

GAB Neumann performs both preventive and corrective maintenance. We maintain, repair, rebuild, or refurbish any piece of graphite or silicon carbide process equipment. We obviously maintain and repair all the pieces of equipment that we have manufactured but also all the pieces of graphite or silicon carbide process equipment originally manufactured by other equipment manufacturers.

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Materials:

  • Impervious graphite: GAB GPX1, GPX1T or GPX2
  • Pressureless sintered silicon carbide
  • Pressure plates and flanges: carbon steel or stainless steel (optional)
  • Tie rods, nuts, bolts, washers, springs: stainless steel
  • PTFE lined steel, PFA lined steel, glass lines steel, glass

Design:

  • Based on GAB Neumann’s drawings or reverse engineered from existing parts
  • Parts for graphite block, annular groove, plate and shell and tube heat exchangers, columns, absorbers, quenches, ejectors, column internals, and more…
  • Parts for silicon carbide plate, block and shell and tube heat exchangers, and more…

Key Features:

  • Preventive and corrective maintenance
  • Technical support and recommendations
  • Hydrotest or leak test on graphite and silicon carbide parts
  • Manufacturing of new graphite or silicon carbide parts
  • Repair of any graphite part that can be fixed
  • Replacement of any non-repairable graphite or silicon carbide parts
  • Replacement of graphite blocks of any kind
  • Manufacturing of graphite spare parts
  • Repair or replacement of damaged graphite nozzles
  • Replacement of gaskets
  • Dimensional and structural check of metallic parts
  • Replacement of the corroded metallic parts
  • Sandblasting and painting of salvageable metallic parts
  • Reassembly and testing of refurbished process equipment
  • Design and testing according to European PED, ASME code, Chinese Pressure Vessel code, and any other national pressure vessel code

Key Benefits:

  • Thorough equipment inspection by experts
  • Spare parts identical to original equipment manufacturer’s parts
  • Quick fixes on long term repairs
  • Short lead time
  • Outstanding corrosion resistance
  • High operational safety
  • Long lifetime

Optional features:

  • Carbon fiber reinforcement of graphite parts
  • Reengineering and improvement of existing parts

Main applications:

  • Preventive and corrective maintenance
  • Quick fixes to keep production running
  • Refurbishing of aged or damaged pieces of graphite or silicon carbide process equipment

Technical documentation

 

 
WS2001-Form-EN Declaration of Decontamination

 

Maintenance and repair

Maintenance and repair involves fixing any process equipment that is out of order or broken. It is known as unscheduled repair or corrective maintenance. Unscheduled maintenance usually results from breakdowns or unexpected failures and often causes expensive downtime. Oppositely performing routine actions which keep process equipment in working order is known as scheduled maintenance. It prevents trouble from arising and unscheduled maintenance.

Maintenance and repair by GAB Neumann

GAB Neumann performs both preventive and corrective maintenance. We maintain, repair, rebuild, or refurbish any piece of graphite or silicon carbide process equipment. We obviously maintain and repair all the pieces of equipment that we have manufactured but also all the pieces of graphite or silicon carbide process equipment originally manufactured by other equipment manufacturers.

We fully understand your need to maintain a safe, reliable, and profitable operation.  Our fitters, technicians, and engineers can quickly evaluate the condition of your equipment and address your maintenance needs either at your site, on the phone, or in our workshop. Depending on the emergency of your needs, we would provide either quick fixes or long-term solutions. If sufficient time is available, we can provide a thorough inspection of your equipment and offer our recommendations to refurbish the unit back to original condition. Our approach is to consult with you regarding your options and allow you to determine which degree of refurbishment is appropriate for your circumstances.

Whenever necessary we can reverse-engineer existing pieces of equipment or parts and reproduce them accurately thanks to our versatile and flexible production means. Safety, reliability, and performance on the long-term are our primary considerations when we design and manufacture spare parts for graphite or silicon carbide process equipment.  

Industrial processes:

  • Phosphoric acid
  • Sulfuric acid
  • Hydrochloric acid
  • Hydrofluoric acid
  • Bromhydric acid
  • Crop protection
  • Fumed silica
  • Silicones
  • Titanium dioxide
  • Fine chemicals
  • Active pharmaceutical ingredients
  • Carbon steel and stainless-steel pickling
  • Copper electrolysis
  • Epichlorohydrin
  • Vinyl chloride monomer
  • Fire retardants
  • Flavors and fragrances
  • Vitamins
  • Isocyanates
  • Viscose
  • Polycarbonate
  • Coagulants
  • Treatment, purification and concentration of spent acids
  • Sulfuric acid dilution
  • and many more…

GAB Neumann GmbH

Alemannenstrasse 29

79689 Maulburg

Germany

Tel: +49 (7622) 6751 0

Fax: +49 (7622) 6751 20

info@gab-neumann.de

GAB Neumann GmbH | Alemannenstrasse 29 | D-79689 Maulburg | Phone +49 (7622) 6751 0 | Fax +49 (7622) 6751 20 | E-Mail info@gab-neumann.de | www.gab-neumann.com