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Maintenance & 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

Reliable sealing technologies reduce maintenance demands

Vector International: Robinson, I. S.

The latest connection and sealing options offer zero-leak integrity and minimized maintenance

HP Reliability: Improvements in floating-ring compressor seals

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

As is so often the case, compressor components undergo design changes as experience accumulates. Over the years, improved floating-ring shaft seals have become key elements in the uptime improvement ..

Maintaining instruments used to determine biodiesel quality

PerkinElmer Inc.: Armstrong, D.

Using these necessary steps will assure proper analysis of B100

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