Amarinth has delivered its first order of exotic alloy API 610 VS4 pumps for use in the STAR in Turkey.
If you have ever encountered a situation where an equipment manufacturer declined to offer warranties, allow us to share three case histories.
Petron Bataan Refinery (PBR) is the largest integrated crude oil refinery and petrochemicals complex in the Philippines.
Planned shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STOs) are often scheduled for preventive maintenance and new equipment installation that must be performed to keep a plant running and in regulatory compliance.
In most process plants, it is unusual to install a pressure safety valve (PSV) to centrifugal pump and compressor discharge, but some PSVs are needed and are installed to protect the system against miscellaneous scenarios that could create overpressure in the system.
ODR, which stands for operator-driven reliability, has recently morphed into a new arrangement of letters: OPPM.
We welcome and thrive on questions from reliability engineers and try to answer some as best we can.
When seeking a pump for a low-flow, high-head application, there is a temptation to choose a high-speed (HS) integral gear-driven centrifugal pump because of its advantages over multi-stage centrifugal and other types of pumps.
Compressor owner-operators now have unprecedented and solidly verifiable options.
The FM-approved FireChek thermal shutoff valve with resettable memory shape alloy can now be used to automatically shut down a pneumatic control system when a nearby fire occurs, or when the ambient temperature reaches 135°F, 150°F or 165°F.