Diseño e implementación de un plan de mantenimiento centrado en la confiabilidad para el sistema de bombeo “El Socavón de la EP-EMAPA Ambato.

Abstract

Drinking water is an indispensable basic service for the survival of human beings, and required in an adequate quantity and permanently forms for their comfort and well-being; that is why, it designed in order to implement the Maintenance Plan focused on the reliability for the pumping system "El SOCAVÓN de la EP-EMAPA- Ambato” whose purpose is to increase the availability and reliability of the systems, equipments and components located within the pumping stations: “PIA SOCAVÓN”, “TANQUE SIN PISO Y SOCAVÓN” and allowed the row water impulsion from the natural springs located on the banks of Ambato river, towards the San Luis station, where it is treated by the chlorination system and distributed to the northern part of the city. In order to carry out this process, it has analyzed the power factor of the motors that allow providing kinetic energy to water. On the other hand, it collected the all information of the operational context of all the equipments; it evaluated their operation conditions and based on this data was possible to establish the functions, functional failures, failure modes, and effects that occur; as well as it evaluated the consequences that these operations involve to establish preventive tasks, which prevent unexpected downtime in the equipments, and thus prevent citizens from cutting service. The project allowed presenting a proposal to improve the power factor of the electric motors of the “PIA SOCAVÓN” station, that had a kind of reprimand by the EEASA, and also helped to demonstrate clearly the reasons to perform each of the preventive tasks within of the maintenance master plan, allowing to justify the intervention at a suitable frequency for each of the activities.