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Maintenance & Reliability

Case 32: Piping flexibility concerns

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Thermal upsets can cause pump problems due to piping loads

Delayed coking turnaround involving three civil engineering projects

Structural Preservation Systems: Kline, T.

Innovative project construction phasing, and the combination of precast, cast-in-place and pre-tensioned concrete construction technologies resulted in a proper restoration

HP Reliability: Vibration limits: Is there a consensus?

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

An experienced reliability manager recently asked our opinion on the subject of turbomachinery vibration. He and his staff had been discussing the vibratory behavior and applicable settings on one of ..

Understand cavitation in reciprocating pumps

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.: Sahoo, T.

Use these guidelines to help avoid problems

HP Reliability: Reasonable pump life assessed from published statistics

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

In the preface to a recent Pump User's Handbook (ISBN 0-88173-517-5) we alluded to pump failure statistics. These failure statistics are often translated into mean-time-between-failure (MTBF). For wha..

Case 31: The analytical modeling niche

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

A simple model can greatly expand your equipment knowledge

Use the system approach to spare parts management

Brasman: deCastro, D. A.

It yields substantially better results than the commonly used item method

Pitfalls of operating pumps at part load

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

The risk in terms of reduced reliability and safety is not worth it

HP Reliability: How to find a job and keep it . . .

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

That was the heading on a periodical that I always enjoy reading. It made the point that "Many people lose their jobs not because of a lack of technical skill, but because they lack the ability to com..

Troubleshooting repetitive failure of a CO2 ompressor rotor

National Fertilizers Limited: Agarwal, S.  |  Bangar, V. K.  |  Gupta, O. P.

Here's how the plant personnel overcame the unique and complex problem of residual magnetism