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Maintenance & Reliability

Management’s role in achieving and sustaining reliability focus

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

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

SABIC R&T: Babakr, A.  |  Bairamov, A.

Here are the causes and the solution

HP Reliability: Organizing to be reliability-focused

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

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

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

System upsets can develop high piping loads

HP Reliability: Auditing vertical pump mechanical reliability

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

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

Flint Hills Resources, L.P.: Bloch, K.

Chemical failure mechanisms can disguise themselves as mechanical and vice versa

HP Reliability: Ask manufacturers to upgrade component life

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Chances are you are working with some equipment and component suppliers that see no reason to offer you upgraded components. As an example, your seal vendor may be among those that are ..

Case 15: The thermally bowed shaft

Consulting Engineer: Sofronas, A.

Just a slight rub can self-generate more heat

A quick guide to compressor suction knockout drum sizing

Jacobs Engineering: Yu, F.

Mist eliminator and gravity settling methods are reviewed

HP Reliability: Attend user symposia for continuous improvement

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

For well over 30 years, Texas A&M University's Turbomachinery Symposium has guided the most profitable user companies toward achieving equipment reliability optimization. Similarly, Tex..