Alkhowaiter, A.
Abdulrahman Alkhowaiter is a Rotating Equipment Consultant and Instructor with 30 yr of experience covering a wide variety of machinery engineering and troubleshooting, including maintenance reliability positions covering reliability centered maintenance of compressors, steam turbines, gas turbines, diesel engines, pumps, electric motors, gearboxes, blowers and fans. Additionally, he has worked for 20 yr in engineering consulting for a major petroleum company specializing in compressors and steam turbines. Mr. Alkhowaiter teaches international courses in machinery failure analysis, process plant compressors, steam turbines field troubleshooting and machinery reliability improvement.
Improve API and ASME centrifugal pumps reliability with permanent magnet shaft couplings
Many factors reduce centrifugal pump reliability. Internal factors include pump design aspects, manufacturing deficiencies, maintenance deficiencies such as lubrication, or process related problems. Other factors are external: the shaft coupling is one of the external elements causing reduced mean-time between failures (MTBF) and pump life through misalignment, friction and unbalance forces.
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