Integral gas engine compressors have
been around for a long time and are still in heavy demand in
processing plants and the gas transmission industry. They do their
jobs well. This article isn’t about new designs or new
installations. It’s about machines that have been in place for many
years, have a reasonable maintenance program and have been
providing reliable service. When failures occur, they are not
usually a result of the original design specifications, but of
something that has changed.
This article describes what causes
certain types of failures and provides brief guidelines on what can
be done.
The machines discussed are engines/
compressors in t
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