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Rotating Equipment

Get the facts on oil mist lubrication

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.
Lubrication Systems Company: Ehlert, D.

Savings in driver maintenance, lower operating manpower, reduced lubricant consumption and energy savings should also be included in a cost justification

Maximum throttling of manual valves without damage

Use these graphs to avoid damage to internals and piping

Designing rectangular block foundations for vibrating equipment

Petrofac International Ltd.: Chakravarti, K.

Method considers both the effect of damping and coupled modes using time-history analysis

Canned motor pumps make important inroads in refinery service

Hermetic Pumps, Inc.: Fegan, S. D.

Difficult applications drive increased use

Comparison of the iterative approximations of the Colebrook-White equation

Bayer HealthCare: Goudar, C. T.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: Sonnad, J. R.

Here's a review of other formulas and a mathematically exact formulation that is valid over the entire range of Re values

An improved experimental correlation for Darcy friction factor

Techint Engineering & Construction: Cordero, G. O.

The pressure drop estimate may be on the unsafe side when using the traditional Moody chart

The effect of kinetic energy change on flow in gas pipelines

Department of Chemical Engineering, Falculty of Engineering, University of Tehran: Demneh, F. A.
Process and Energy Laboratory, Delft Univeristy of Technology: Mesbah, A.

The significance of the acceleration term in pressure drop calculations is investigated

Use liquid ultrasonic meters for custody transfer

Daniel Division, Emerson Process Management: Seiler, D.  |  Syrnyk, P.

This technology is gaining widespread acceptance in the field

Visualize pump and control valve interaction easily

Kuwait Oil Co.: Unnkikrishnan, G.

Use these steps to set up a spreadsheet to visualize the system behavior

Performance testing guidelines for centrifugal compressors

Chevron Energy Technology Co.: Wilcox, E.

Here are the variables to measure and necessary instrumentation