Executive Summary
ITC Infotech partnered with a leading Oil & Gas equipment manufacturer to develop a next-generation metal seal for sour service. Leveraging advanced FEA, material optimization, and integrated project management, the team overcame complex design and validation challenges—compressing the overall timeline by 25% while achieving API 6A and API TR8 qualification.
Business Challenge
- Material selection complexity (For Sour Service, API, and NACE requirements)
- FEA intensive design: The seal turns into a plastic zone during the sealing function, making it complex to validate
- Highly non-linear FEA with plasticity involved, convergence challenges
- Geometry sensitive design: Minor changes to the profile can alter the results to a great extent
- Consideration of ease of installation and system-level components
- Test fixture and Tooling design
- Withstand 15 K pressures and qualify testing per API 6A and API TR8
Business Challenge
- Material selection complexity (For Sour Service, API, and NACE requirements)
- FEA intensive design: The seal turns into a plastic zone during the sealing function, making it complex to validate
- Highly non-linear FEA with plasticity involved, convergence challenges
- Geometry sensitive design: Minor changes to the profile can alter the results to a great extent
- Consideration of ease of installation and system-level components
- Test fixture and Tooling design
- Withstand 15 K pressures and qualify testing per API 6A and API TR8
Our Solution
- Collective consultation with internal SMEs based on the design challenges faced
- Manufacturing Expert consultation on a need basis to address manufacturing issues
- Managing overlapping activities to best utilize the resources and achieve efficient execution till Testing and Validation
- Material review and suggestion of alternate material (approval sought from the BH material expert before finalization)
- Test reporting and RCA for any failures, and corrective action with Final Test Report
Key Results and Benefits
- Requirements analysis
- Multiple Concept designs and shortlisting main and back-up concepts
- Validating the concepts with Design calculations using MathCAD
- Test procedure writing and conducting RCA on a need basis
- Resolve test issues
- Metal Seal that qualified 15K Pressure
- Overall timeline compressed by 25% with Integrated Project Management
About ITC Infotech
ITC Infotech is a leading global technology services and solutions provider, led by Business and Technology Consulting. ITC Infotech provides business-friendly solutions to help clients succeed and be future-ready, by seamlessly bringing together digital expertise, strong industry specific alliances and the unique ability to leverage deep domain expertise from ITC Group businesses. ITC Infotech is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd., a 100-plus-year-old diversified conglomerate with businesses spanning Hotels, Consumer Goods, Paperboards & Packaging, Agri Business, and Information Technology. ITC Ltd. has been in the hospitality business for over 4 decades. It has over 100 properties across 70+ destinations. The hospitality practice at ITC Infotech is 800+ people strong and most have experience in the hospitality domain leading to a high-quality IT service experience for its hospitality customers.
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