Maintenance & Reliability
HP Reliability: Understand lubrication
Heinz P. Bloch, Reliability/Equipment Editor       Comments? Write:HB@HydrocarbonProcessing.com The subject of lubrication is rarely, if ever, taught in US universities. Tha..
Achieving world-class operating performance
Apply appropriate reliability and operating improvement techniques in an integrated process to match plant capabilities
Why even first-quartile plants can lose profitability
Benchmarking is not a substitute for a competent reliability professional
Use gas conditioning to improve compressor gas seal life
Here's how to ensure a continuous supply of clean and dry buffer gas
HP Reliability: Consider dry gas seals for centrifugal compressors
For over five decades, centrifugal compressors have benefited from mechanical field technology. The early compressors of the 1950s often struggled with cumbersome labyrinth sealing and gas eductor arr..
Case 24: The moving gearbox
Thermal distortions can move a 50-ton gearbox
HP Reliability: Straightening carbon steel shafts
Before attempting to straighten a shaft, try to determine how the bend was produced. If the bend was produced by an inherent stress relieved during the machining operation, during heat proofing, on th..
Introduction to NACE standard MR0103
Use these materials to reduce sulfide stress cracking in corrosive refinery environments
HP Reliability: Consider casting salvaging methods
Repair-welding process machinery cast components is frequently not possible. Fortunately, however, there are salvaging methods that do not involve welding: Controlled-atmosphere furnace brazing ..
NPSHA —how much is enough?
Follow these guidelines to avoid pump damage
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