Maintenance & Reliability
HP Reliability: Pay attention to pipe spring hangers and supports
Hanger and spring support-relatedinstallation oversights are responsible for many excessive pipestress incidents. Piping-induced loads will often cause pumpcasings to deflect. Consequently, important ..
HP Reliability: Apply optimized method of stiffening pump base plates
In the late 1990s, Houston-basedStay-Tru Services developed a highly effective method to minimizefield installation costs and improve reliability of pump baseplates. Its "Stay-Tru Pre-Grouted Base Pla..
Case 17: Wreck of a centrifugal pump
Understanding the entire flow system is important when determining the cause of a failure
Applications for multifunction pressure instruments
Case histories show how these devices can improve reliability and lower costs
Management’s role in achieving and sustaining reliability focus
This column has been published for over 13 years and although its content was, and still is, primarily targeting the reliability professional, many of its musings contained messages tha..
Top of line corrosion in industrial wastewater pipelines
Here are the causes and the solution
HP Reliability: Organizing to be reliability-focused
This column has often mentioned the need for industry to abandon its repair focus and to move toward becoming almost exclusively reliability-focused. There are many ways to reach this g..
Case 16: A piping failure due to water hammer
System upsets can develop high piping loads
HP Reliability: Auditing vertical pump mechanical reliability
Vertical pumps are important for major process plants. Available in numerous configurations, they excel in such areas as ease of multistaging, virtually unlimited installation depth bel..
Dealing with deceptive failure modes
Chemical failure mechanisms can disguise themselves as mechanical and vice versa
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