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Maintenance & Reliability

HP Reliability: Update your grease compatibility know-how

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

We haven't made a survey as to which of the hundreds of "HPIn Reliability" columns published each month over a span of more than 17 years merit being updated. Some are "evergreen," but a few might be ..

Risk-based inspection—an efficient maintenance tool

Muscat, Mott MacDonald & Co., LLC: Nalli, K.

The technique is an integral part of asset integrity management

Performance benchmarking update: expectations and reality

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Solomon Associates: Hernu, M.

Here's how first-quartile companies optimize maintenance and improve reliability

HP Reliability: Justification for machine condition monitoring

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Continuous operational condition monitoring implies that machine condition data are collected and evaluated in real time. Of special interest here are data that could rapidly change and are tell-tale ..

Noise pollution in refineries

MVGR College of Engineering: Bhaskararao, B. K.

This often overlooked problem is manageable

Plan to improve plant reliability

INOVx Solutions: Ayral, T.
Meridium, Inc.: DeFalco, C.

Here's how to attain world-class operation that will result in large economic benefits

HP Reliability: Lubricating slow-speed rolling element bearings

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

A sales engineer visited a customer with different pieces of processing equipment that included an oven. The customer asked a lubrication-related question and received an answer from the sales enginee..

Optimizing preventive maintenance by combining discrete event simulation and genetic algorithms

University of Mondragon: Goti, A.
Mondragon Unibertsitatea University, Industrial Management Department: Oyarbide-Zubillaga, A.
Polytechnich University of Valencia, Department of Statistics and Operational Research: Sanchez, A.

Cost and benefit criteria are applied to a multi-equipment system

HP Reliability: Counting interventions instead of MTBF

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to meet a very experienced machinery reliability professional at a refinery in the UK. Among his many tasks was tracking mean-time-between-failures (MTBFs) of..

Case 40: Troubleshooting gear face damage

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

A simple analysis can help in determining the root cause of the failure