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Review of Centrifugal Compressors High Pressure Testing for Offshore Applications
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
There are many doubts about the risk / reward relation when it comes to ordering tests involving high pressure centrifugal compression systems. There are different tests that can be classified in this category, namely Full ...
Gas Turbine Air Filtration Systems For Offshore Applications
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
Air filtration plays a key role in achieving high availability and low maintenance cost for Gas Turbines, in particular in offshore applications. Offshore applications pose a particular challenge, since they have to provide ...
Applying API 617, 8th Edition to Expander-Compressors with Active Magnetic Bearings
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
High-speed expander-compressors are commonplace in the gasprocessing industry. In recent years, expander-compressors equipped with Active Magnetic Bearings (AMBs) have gained wide acceptance and are now the norm in ethylene ...
Range Versus Efficiency - Striking The Proper Balance
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
The paper addresses the balance between peak attainable efficiency and overall operating range that must be addressed when specifying, designing and/or selecting centrifugal compressors. The relative roles of the various ...
Introduction of a New Family of Steam Turbine Low Pressure Stages - A Comprehensive Review of 10 Years of Experience in Design, Manufacturing, Experimental Validation and Field Application
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
Low Pressure stage design characteristics play a key role in steam turbine product line as they typically set limits to the maximum turbine flow and rotating speed and have a strong influence on the overall turbine efficiency. ...
A New Approach to Designing Centrifugal Compressor Surge Control Systems
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
Many facilities employ two or more centrifugal compressors, operated in either series or parallel configurations. An accurately designed surge control system that includes multiple compressors with the associated piping ...
Hydrodynamic Torque Converters For Oil & Gas Compression and Pumping Applications : Basic Principles, Performance Characteristics And Applications
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
Herrmann Foettinger as an alternative to a regular speed changing gear for shipboard propulsion. At that time, mechanical reduction gears for such high power applications were not available. The core idea of hydrodynamic ...
Explosive Decompression And Other O-Ring Related Issues For Turbomachinery Service- Some User Guidance
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
Flexible sealing elements, typically elastomeric O-rings are commonly used to contain fluids within pressurized cavities of turbomachinery at the interfaces between adjoining components. All too often the only selection ...
Causes Of Subsynchronous Vibration In Integrally Geared Compressors
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
Integrally geared centrifugal compressors (IGC’s) are a well-established and continually growing segment of the turbomachinery industry. They have proven to provide a high level of reliability, efficiency and design ...
Fundamentals of Fluid Film Journal Bearing Operation and Modeling
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2015)
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 ...