The performance and uptime of heavy rotating equipment play an important role in business profitability in a wide range of industries, including upstream and midstream gas processing and downstream re..
The performance and uptime of heavy rotating equipment play an important role in business profitability in a wide range of industries, including upstream and midstream gas processing and downstream refining and petrochemical processing.
In the North American chemical industry, the shale gas boom has been a windfall opportunity as large manufacturers shift from producing ethylene from oil to ethylene from lower-cost methane and natural gas. The cracked gas compressor, at the heart of these operations, must often deal with multiple feedstocks and is subject to fouling from contaminants. If the compressor should go down, lost production in these types of operations is estimated to cost about
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