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Maintenance & Reliability

Improve safety systems with redundant networks

This method provides reliable, fail-to-safe operation

Material selection and corrosion control

Employ the right expertise in all project phases

The best machinery reliability tool you can buy

Consulting Engineer: Cummings, J.

Don’t overlook your most important data source

The best machinery reliability tool you can buy Fig. 1

Consulting Engineer: Cummings, J.

Fig. 1. The 1981 form doesn't have much space for remarks. ..

The best machinery reliability tool you can buy Fig. 2

Consulting Engineer: Cummings, J.

Fig. 2. The 1995 document is the result of several years' additional experience. ..

HP Reliability: Consider toroidal chamber rotary compressors

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

In 1970, the first of five toroidal chamber rotary compressors entered service in nuclear test loops. Each of these machines was used to circulate 2,240 scfm of CO2 at 660°F; the s..

Benchmarking: a reliability driver

HSB Reliability Technologies: Oliverson, R. J.

Approaches range from purely quantitative to highly qualitative

HP Reliability: Machine scanning is coming of age

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

For quite some time, our columns and bound texts have explained that forward-looking companies are no longer expecting experienced vibration analysts and technical personnel to look for..

HP Reliability: Cost-effective sheave maintenance

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Good sheave alignment will increase efficiency by reducing premature wear or failure of belts, pulleys and bearings. This can be accomplished by several different alignment methods, suc..

HP Reliability: Consider floating piston compressors

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Process plants have for decades applied nonlubricated reciprocating compressors. Early designs used carbon piston rings and rider bands; these were soon followed by Teflon, filled Teflo..