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Maintenance & Reliability

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..

HP Reliability: Consider machine condition inspection systems

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Your plant is probably depending on a dedicated group of reliability professionals to first collect and then analyze machinery vibration and other equipment condition data. You undoubte..

Analyzing gear failures

Prager Inc.: DeLange, G.

Use this information to identify and eliminate problems

HP Reliability: Good procedures have huge paybacks

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

A few years ago, a major petrochemical company modified the piping leading from their steam generator to a mechanical drive turbine inlet flange. They then disconnected the piping from ..

Using and justifying systematic root-cause analysis

System Improvements, Inc.: Maquardt, A.  |  Paradies, M.

These techniques can reduce failures and improve troubleshooting