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HP Reliability: Alignment choices have consequences
Maintenance & Reliability
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/ Corrosion
/ Drivers
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/ Piping
/ Pumps
/ Rotating Equipment
/ Safety
/ Turbines
Optimists tell us about steady industry trends toward reliability-imparting procedures and work processes, while realists continually make us aware of pressures to reduce expenditures. As outside obse..
Going ‘green’ with FCC expander technology
Environment & Safety
/ Process Optimization
/ Refining
/ Acid Gas Removal
/ Americas
/ Asia/Pacific
/ Carbon Management
/ Compressors
/ Drivers
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/ Engineering & Design
/ Environment
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/ Greenhouse Gases
/ Loss Prevention
/ Middle East
/ Motors
/ Pumps
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/ Turbines
New options recover waste gas energy as steam and electricity for plant use
Consider real-gas modeling for turboexpanders
New visualization methods expose problems with traditional designs
HP Reliability: Consider bearing protection for small steam turbines
In most small machines there is a need to limit both contaminant ingress and oil leakage. Inexpensive lip seals are sometimes used for sealing at the bearing housing, but lip seals typically last only..
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Construction Boxscore: Project Spotlight
Project:
Long Son Petrochemicals Complex
Location:
Long Son, Vietnam
Operator:
Siam Cement Group
Cost:
$5.4 B
Capacity:
1.65 MMtpy
Completion date:
2023
Status:
Under Construction
