Browsing Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia by Title
Now showing items 1440-1459 of 2440
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2001)There was a time when people worked on radiologically contaminated equipment with a low level of protection, when equipment leakage was considered unavoidable, and when contaminated equipment was disposed of with little ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)The increasing demand of higher efficiency and increased equipment compactness is pushing the modern rotordynamic design towards higher and higher bearing peripheral speeds. Due to the increased viscous dissipation, fluid ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2001)With the increase in power per unit of volume for modern pumps, driven by manufacturing costs reduction, cavitation becomes more and more the main limiting factor in pump design. The classical one-dimensional design rules ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2008)Pump intake is designed to provide adequate water supply to pumps. It is essential to design the pump intake to provide fairly uniform and swirl free flow to pumps. However, it is not always possible due to site constraints. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2002)There is a close link between the pressure pulsation in the pump working cavity and its vibration and noise level. Due to a current trend in increasing rotation speed and power, the problem of noise, vibration, and pressure ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2007)This paper deals with pump as turbine (PAT) as a feasible solution to the energy problems in rural and hilly areas. PAT provides an economical alternative to actual turbines especially for pico and microhydropower generation. ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2013)
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1997)Oil lubrication systems, when required and provided for the pumping system, are the life insurance policy for the process. If the oil lubrication system should fail to perform, the results are bearing failures in pumps, ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1994)Oil Mist lubrication has been shown to be a very effective method for reducing maintenance costs by minimizing lubrication related bearing failures. What oil mist is, how it works, and typical results from its application ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1986)Oil seals are used in many industrial compressor designs where positive control of the process gas is essential. Consideration of the influence of these seals is necessary for proper design evaluation. The oil seals can ...
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(Texas A&M University. Gas Turbine Laboratories, 1972)The speaker will briefly review the type of problems which have been experienced with lubrication and seal oil systems and their impact upon process compressor train reliability. Recommendations for reducing these problems ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2004)Industrial gas turbines allow operation with a wide variety of gaseous and liquid fuels. To determine the suitability for operation with a gas fuel system, various physical parameters of the proposed fuel need to be ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1983)This paper presents a typical field problem that most maintenance engineers in any petrochemical plant could encounter. Two 4000 hp through-drive electric motors were totally destroyed when the inboard coupling failed. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1986)The efficiency of compressor impellers, apart from the design, depends on some features linked with their manufacture. These features are the accuracy of geometry, the surface quality obtained, and the blockages which are ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2007)Abradable seals are employed in turbomachinery to reduce leakage gaps between stationary and rotating parts to improve efficiency and stall margin. Thermally sprayed abradable seals have been used in the compressor section ...
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(Texas A&M University. Gas Turbine Laboratories, 1973)On-stream cleaning is regularly practiced on the axial compressors of gas turbines and on steam turbines. Many other turbo machines could be cleaned in service. In fact, the limiting factor is not the machine type, but the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1988)Has the industrial standardization of the IBM PC/ AT as a building block for dedicated instrument computer systems brought costs down to the point where sophisticated monitoring systems are not only possible, but make good ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2003)Expander reliability has been limited by flow path erosion, corrosion, and deposition. Through root cause determination of the failures and laboratory testing, advances in machine designs and online monitoring and cleaning ...
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(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 1990)Unpredicted bearing failures continue to plague industry with forced outages. As a result of these outages, many industries have attempted prevention by unnecessary inspections and premature bearing replacement. This work ...