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Rotating Equipment

Petrobras contracts Elliott on Brazil rotor storage

The contract, which was renewed for three years with an option to extend, covers a minimum of 80 spare turbine and compressor rotors for Petrobras refineries in Brazil.

Reliability: Avoid pump shaft failures

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

We welcome and thrive on questions from reliability engineers and try to answer some as best we can.

Elliott to supply compressor for Holly Refining’s upgrade in New Mexico

The H2 recycle unit will be built and tested in Elliott's manufacturing facility in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. Delivery is to the Navajo refinery is scheduled for the third quarter of 2016.

Compare pitot tube pumps with high-speed centrifugal pumps for low-flow applications

Chagalesh Consulting Engineers: Khazrai, F.  |  Eskandarlu, A.

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.

Advances in dry gas seal technology for compressors

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
AESSEAL plc: Carmody, C.

Compressor owner-operators now have unprecedented and solidly verifiable options.

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

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.

Williams selects Elliott compressors for Redwater PDH complex in Canada

Elliott will provide three compression trains for the reactor effluent, heat pump, and propylene refrigeration duties at the new plant. The package also encompasses equipment auxiliaries.

Use a commercial process historian for full-featured machinery condition monitoring

Compressor Control Corp., SETPOINT Vibration Div.: Sabin, S.

Can a commercial process historian be used to replace standalone condition monitoring software, including acquisition and display of high-speed vibration and surge waveform data?

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

Ingersoll Rand debuted its TURBO-AIR NX 8000 integrally geared centrifugal compressor at the Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia show in Houston, Texas in September.

HP Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Blume, Adrienne

EGC Critical Components has announced its dures brand of materials, a new family of proprietary thermoplastic polymer composites developed specifically for the manufacture of bushings, bearings and wear rings in pumps handling a wide range of liquids, including those that contain solid matter.