This paper describes and economically justifies one major oil company's utilization of a total Integrated Mechanical Inspection Program as an alternative to high maintenance costs and reduced plant productivity.

Over the past 10 years, magnetic bearings have been making significant changes to the rotating equipment industry. As magnetic bearing systems become more accepted and the numbers of applications increase, so do the operating ...

Magnetic bearings have reached the point in their development where they can be considered a mature technology, and as such, should gain wide acceptance by the rotating equipment industry. While current industrial ...

The technique of measuring steady loads on centrifugal pump impellers via magnetic bearings is demonstrated and shown to be reliable way of clarifying loads, which have been traditionally difficult to determine both ...

Centrifugal pump design plays an essential role in the safe operation of any refinery or chemical processing plant. In analyzing the performance of centrifugal pumps, pump operating time to failure is almost always limited ...

As a result of cost reductions, there are fewer and fewer gear specialists in compressor and turbine companies, as well as in the maintenance groups of users. Therefore, these groups rely on the gear manufacturer’s expertise ...

Goal: Develop a Maintenance Program that will Assure: Safety of Personnel and Equipment; Environmental Compliance; Long Term Business Profit f Holders.

Manufacture and maintenance of turbomachinery are completely different. The first involves shaping and assembling of various parts to required tolerances while the second involves restoration of these tolerances through a ...

Major uprates of process compressor train performance can be achieved utilizing the existing machinery. The following is a broad overview of a project to revamp two identical compressor trains to achieve levels well over ...