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Remaining Life Assessment Of Steam Turbine And Hot Gas Expander Components.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
In today’s marketplace, a large percentage of oil refinery, petrochemical, and power generation plants throughout the world have been trying to reduce their operation cost by extending the service life of their critical ...
Preface for the Proceedings of the 34th Turbomachinery Symposium
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
Performance Evaluation Of A Centrifugal Compressor Operating Under Wet Gas Conditions.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
This paper presents the results of performance testing of a single-stage centrifugal compressor operating under wet gas conditions. The test was performed at an oil and gas operator’s test facility and was executed at ...
Equation Of State Influences On Compressor Performance Determination.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
Accurate prediction of centrifugal compressor aero/thermodynamic performance is essential in establishment of new equipment acceptability and verification of compressor health during continuing operation. In many cases, ...
Gas Turbine Life Limiting Effects Of Inlet And Interstage Water Injection.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
Power enhancement technologies for gas turbines such as inlet fogging, interstage water injection, saturation cooling, inlet chillers, and combustor injection are being used by end users without evaluating the potentially ...
Site Performance Test Evaluation For Gas Turbine And Electric Motor Driven Compressors.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
Field testing of compressor packages driven by gas turbines or electric motors requires the accurate determination of efficiency, flow, head, and power in sometimes less than ideal working environments. This paper discusses ...
Fundamentals Of Fluid Film Journal Bearing Operation And Modeling.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
Widely used in turbomachinery, the fluid film journal bearing is critical to a machine’s overall reliability level. Their design complexity and application severity continue to increase making it challenging for the plant ...
Applied Risk And Reliability For Turbomachinery Part I - Reliability Processes And Part II - Reliability Calculations).
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2005)
There are several methods of analysis to define the reliability of the critical rotating equipment at various facilities within a company. Part I of this tutorial is intended to present several of these methods. The following ...