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Rotating Equipment

Troubleshooting repetitive failure of a CO2 ompressor rotor

National Fertilizers Limited: Agarwal, S.  |  Bangar, V. K.  |  Gupta, O. P.

Here's how the plant personnel overcame the unique and complex problem of residual magnetism

Use ejectors to reduce operating costs

Reliance Industries Ltd.: Nayek, S. K.  |  Venkatesh, R.

Here are some uncommon applications for the technology

A simple way to estimate equipment pressure drops

Jacobs Engineering: Yu, F.

The equivalent line length method can be used to estimate equipment pressure drop at different operating conditions

Root-cause failure analysis applied to a gas turbine failure

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL): Chatterjee, S. K.

This case study illustrates the method

Retrofitting pillow-block bearings with optimized oil mist lubrication

Lubrication Systems Co.: Branham, D. C.

This refinery significantly increased bearing life

Reliability driven asset management strategy for reciprocating compressors

Nutech Ontario: Pradhan, S. A.

Use these methods to reduce mean-time-to-repair and increase availability

Oil mist lubrication for electric motors

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Use these guidelines to improve reliability and efficiency

Combine troubleshooting and continuous monitoring of dynamic data for critical machinery

Engineering Dynamics Inc.: Atkins, K. E.

Advanced systems provide more data and increase reliability

Explicit friction factor correlation for pipe flow analysis

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

Use this representation of the universal law of friction to obtain accurate estimates

Pump control strategies benefit from compressor know-how

Compressor Controls Corp.: Mirsky, S.

Similar techniques can be used to avoid problems with parallel operation