The Solution

Any maintenance outside a planned plant shutdown is a major pain point, especially for offshore production, as it causes significant OPEX. The plant operation and reliability team needed to reduce the downtime and find an efficient, reliable valve solution to solve this chronic problem.

IMI introduced the customer to the new EroSolve Metamorphic Trim (MMT) product, the world’s first self-cleaning Metamorphic valve Trim, combining the benefits of multistage-labyrinth and cascade technologies.

Our solution met the customer’s needs by preventing the particle contaminated sticky fluid from clogging the valve and being able to handle the high pressure drop as well as small flow rates. The customer strongly believed in our new technology, even though there was no installed base or field proven reference at the time of quotation.

The new EroSolve MMT upgrade trim kits were installed over six months ago and have had no issues at all. During several follow-up meetings the customer confirmed the MMT was able to prove its self-cleaning capability.

To minimise critical downtime during the valve upgrade, the new trim was installed by an IMI CCI field service engineer onsite, offshore. The trim was retrofitted into the existing valve body without removing the valve from the line. This ensured a fast installation, but also minimised waste and scrapped parts by reusing existing major valve parts such as the body and actuator.

EroSolve MMT improved the produced water quality and significantly reduced OPEX. Our innovative solution helped our customer to ensure efficient, sustainable, and competitive production.