Centrifugal compressors used in various plants come in diverse specifications with regard to capacity, pressure and gas handled. In designing such compressors, important considerations are to shorten design time and save ...

This paper gives a brief description of compressor-driving steam turbines for use in chemical plants. Turbines used for ethylene plants, ammonia plants and LNG plants, in particular, are large-capacity, high-speed ...

With turbine rotors of low shaft elasticity (large diameter and small bearing span) the increase in amplitude at the first point of shaft resonance in the speed range is generally slight. Consequently no particular attention ...

This paper describes in condensed form the results of a research project initiated by the Forschungskuratorium Maschinenbau e. V. and carried out at the Institut fur Maschinenelemente und Konstruktionslehre of Darmstadt ...

The paper covers the subject of overhauling turbomachines with particular emphasis on practical field procedures and proven concepts. It does not dwell on one type of machine, but multi-stage centrifugal compressors and ...

The increasing availability of high speed balancing facilities requires the manufacturer and/or ultimate user to seriously consider a rates speed rotor balance. In addition, the development of the "influence coefficient" ...

Advances in 3-D finite element stress analysis, as well as powerful analytical technique in rotor dynamics and bearing analysis using high speed digital computers, have created the environment to build process centrifugal ...

Even an apparently well-designed lube and seal system can and will cause turbomachinery problems to occur if all operating parameters are not considered in the design of the lube and seal system. Lube and seal system design, ...