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Maintenance & Reliability

Deferred maintenance causes upsurge in pump failures

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Not addressing the root cause of a failure puts resources and employees at risk

Avoid costly engineering faults, missteps and miscalculations

Alon USA: Sanghavi, K.

Experience does count, especially in achieving success in capital and revamp projects

Nickel recycle: Extending service life for reformer tubes

Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.: Kunte, S. B.

Case studies investigate methods to conserve high-nickel tubes for fertilizer facilities

Consider new materials for ethylene furnace applications

Manoir Industries: Verdier, G.  |  Carpentier, F.

An innovative metallurgy solves maintenance issues

Testing and repair options for critical dry-gas seal: Updates

AESSEAL plc: Carmody, C.

Do your research when sending compressor seals out for renovations

How to justify root-cause failure analysis for pumps

Flint Hills Resources, L.P.: Perez, R. X.

New method uses annualized risk to determine RCFA analysis levels

Optimize reordering of critical raw materials and parts

University of Mondragon: Goti, A.  |  Zabaleta, N.
Polytechnic University of Madrid: Garcia, A.  |  Ortega-Mier, M.
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava: Uradnicek, J.

New models evaluate the ‘total’ costs in receiving and storing materials for a refinery

Case 62: Useful shaft stress equations to remember

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Committing several equations to memory can be useful

Update on designing for high-fouling liquids

Fluor Corp.: Nesta, J.
Heat Transfer Research, Inc.: Coutinho, C. A.

A critical analysis of shell and tube exchanger systems looks at ‘clean and dirty’ service performance

HP Reliability: Consider ‘water washing’ for steam turbines

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Elliott Group: Dowson, P.

Occasions may arise when deposits form on the internal parts of steam turbines. The accumulation of these deposits may be indicated by a gradual increase in stage pressures over time with no evidence ..