Environment & Safety Gas Processing/LNG Maintenance & Reliability Petrochemicals Process Control Process Optimization Project Management Refining

Geitner, F. K.

Consultant, Bright's Grove, Ontario, Canada

How to select compressors for various process services

Consultant: Geitner, F. K.
Professional engineer: Bloch, H. P.

Every style or type of compressor was developed to serve a particular process purpose. Collective references have devoted hundreds of thousands of pages on this topic. Two books have attempted to summ..

Improve monitoring and troubleshooting of reciprocating compressors

Consultant: Geitner, F. K.
Professional engineer: Bloch, H. P.

The terms surveillance and monitoring for reciprocating compressors can be used interchangeably. With few exceptions, the monitoring and/or surveillance tasks are assigned to the unit operators. They ..

Optimize your compressor maintenance program

Consultant: Geitner, F. K.

One deviation alone might not be enough to bring on a compressor failure, but, when several more deviations combine, the failure risk is known to increase exponentially.

Use equipment failure statistics properly

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Consultant: Geitner, F. K.

These data can help in deciding which reliability improvement efforts are feasible and reasonable

Use equipment failure statistics properly - Fig 1

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Consultant: Geitner, F. K.

Fig. 1. Life spans of machinery commponents and ..

Use equipment failure statistics properly - Table 1

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Consultant: Geitner, F. K.

 Table 1. Machinery availability / reliability.Industry covered: HPI Basis:8,760 hr/yrYear: 1996 DowntimeForced outage     IMR&O,Forced DT,Proactive Mtc.,MTBF,I..

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