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Root Cause Analysis Of Five Costly Centrifugal Pump Failures
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1990)
Machinery failure analysis and troubleshooting are often pursued in a somewhat haphazard, unstructured fashion. This paper presents a novel, proven, and well focused approach which can quickly lead to the root cause ...
Retrofitting Turbomachinery With High Performance Flexible Dry Couplings.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1990)
When planning maintenance of turbomachinery, the proper selection of dry couplings to replace gear couplings should be considered. The basic criteria used when retrofitting flexible diaphragm or disc couplings is discussed.
On Line Power Plant Performance Monitoring
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1990-06)
Maintaining efficient and reliable plant operation is a
prime objective in the generation of power. These are important
considerations for utilities and particularly for Independent
Power Producers as they become a more ...
Regional Production Economics for Ethylene and Propylene Derivatives
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1990-06)
Many developing countries have
implemented aggresslve programs to develop domestic petrochemical capacity. In those regions with abundant, low cost feedstocks, the competitive advantage seems obvious. However, other regions ...
Reliability Criteria For Turbine Shaft Based On Coupling Type - Geared To Have Flexibility.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1990)
A turbine shaft end at the coupling is exposed not only to constant torque load but to various variable loads as well. These externally imposed variable loads come from sources like compressor surge, misalignment between ...
Recent Case Histories With Coupling Enclosures.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1990)
Coupling enclosures are oil-tight guards which serve the double purpose of protecting people from the rotating coupling and returning oil that escapes past the seals back to the oil reservoir. Enclosures were, and still ...
Efficient Part Load Combined Cycle Operation.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1990)
During the oil crisis in the 1970s, many electric utilities assigned their base load portion of electric generation requirements to nuclear and coal fired steam plants. The intermediate duty in some cases was assigned to ...
Troubleshooting High Speed Couplings.
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1990)
Couplings are a major concern of turbo equipment users. Couplings can and do result in many hours of lost sleep for the plant equipment specialists, and can cause failure of equipment resulting in extended periods of ...
Refinery Fuel Balancing with Cogeneration
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1990-06)
Placid is starting up a 7.6 MW cogeneration system in their Port Allen, Louisiana Refinery. The project was justified on efficiency improvement, reduced flaring and improved power reliability. The project was implemented ...
Electric Utility Environmental Issues in the 1990's
(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu), 1990-06)
The 1990s have been referred to as
the "Decade of the Environment".
President Bush as well as Congress have
made strengthening the Clean Air Act a
national priority. Reauthorization of the
Resource Conservation and ...