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    • Bhat, Vasanth; Suthan, Thangavel (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Case Study 12
    • Subramanian, Moorthy (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      On 19th Aug 2017, abnormal noise noticed from RO (Reverse osmosis) Membrane Feed pump coupling area. Checked the vibration for pump & motor and found very high vibration at Pump Drive end. The vibration level at Pump DE ...
    • Fritz, Bernard; Baldussu, Alessandro; Brandl, Andreas (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      Many problems in today’s industrial environment require smart modeling assumptions in order to make them numerically accessible with an acceptable amount of effort. This case study shows how a field problem (main bearing ...
    • Crowther, Paul; Chen, Zixiang; Ijeomah, Cajetan; Grose, Jordan (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      It is well understood that static pressure at the inlet of reciprocating pumps, quantified typically by Net Positive Suction Head Available (NPSHA), must be sufficient to avoid cavitation in the pump suction manifold and ...
    • Schwarz, Marco (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      A fifteen stage axial compressor including a bleed extraction was subject to a major overhaul after nearly 20 years of trouble free operation. Shortly after recommissioning and resumption of the production the compressor ...
    • Bhat, Vasanth M.; Aaron, Quek Ser King (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Tutorial 8: Global Environment concerns and need for more optimized production costs is driving all industries including Oil & Gas to look at more ways to reduce energy consumption without compromising on plant throughputs. ...
    • Deshpande, Chinmay; Farooqi, Rehan; Pattom, Matthew; Buali, Mohammad; Tran, Dung; Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah A. (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      Four sets of hydraulic turbocharger based energy recovery systems (2000 hp each) were successfully designed, manufactured, tested and commissioned for Acid Gas Recovery plants (AGR) in Saudi Arabia. These five units can ...
    • Sidi, Sebastian Anak; Asnawi, Khairul Fata B Ahmad (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      This paper presents the effect of balance gear on a reciprocating engine which drive the crude oil transfer pump that had experienced vibration at one of the offshore platform in Malaysia. Based on this case, it is ...
    • Chew, Grace; Asokan, Kaushik (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2024-02-27)
      At one of our customer/end-user chemical plants in Singapore, they had a problem with frequent replacement of the Hastelloy C impellars casted used in their centrifugal pumps in service with Sodium Hypochlorite application. ...
    • Kamal, Girish (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      Off Spec Condensate Recycle Pumps on an onshore gas production facility exhibited high lube oil temperature in pump bearing housing that exceeded the alert limits since commissioning. A Structured Root Cause Analysis was ...
    • Ganesh, R. Sankar; Iqbal, Muhammad Zeeshan (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Case Study 7: This case study narrates an incident of random vibration spikes which occurred in year 2014 on one of the steam turbine bearings of a propane refrigeration compressor train. The random vibration spikes caused ...
    • Sharma, Amit; Ganesh, Sankar (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      Gas Injection Compressors are critical for offshore oil production facilities. A compressor downtime lowers oil production. This case study is about a Gas Injection Compression train at an offshore platform in the Middle ...
    • de Guarda Matos, Danilo (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      This failure lead a root cause analysis and a series of investigations that was taken place in a similar design unit deployed at a different site. This paper will describe the bump test and modal analysis procedures and ...
    • Mohamed, Mohd Faizal; Rhaman, Khairil Ikhwan Abdul (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      Usage of mechanical seal is widely used in rotating equipment especially pump It prevents fluid or product of the pump from leaking to atmosphere Consequence of seal leaking will be more critical if the product itself is ...
    • Mohamed, Mohd Faizal; A Manan, Mohd Hafiz (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      In this case study, presence of moisture, contaminant and H2S in process gas has ben discussed that lead to compressor component deterioration and damage. In addition, having situation of idling the compressor close to its ...
    • Hardt, Andreas; Schnabel, Oskar; Bohn, Jurgen (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      The paper discusses the development of a novel impeller design concept that addresses changing requirements for radial centrifugal compressors applied in the polymer/downstream petrochemical industry. The impeller design ...
    • Mahmood, Dayang Nurhan Binti Awang; Asnawi, Khairul Fata Bin Ahmad (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      Centrifugal compressor is the heart of upstream and downstream oil and gas operation as its ability to move large volume of fluid to its end destination. Centrifugal compressors are designed at certain range of operation. ...
    • Botros, Kamal; Hill, Steven; Grose, Jordan (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Lecture 2: 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 ...
    • Kuzdzal, Mark; Koch, Jay (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      Reciprocating and centrifugal compressor similarities/ differences -How do they work? (Potential Energy, Kinetic Energy, PE, KE, …) -History of compressors – Timeline, major advances – Configurations, straight-through, ...
    • Baumann, Urs; Baldassarre, Leonardo; Gupta, Manoj; Hataya, Takeshi; Konomi, Shin; Kumar, Arun (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      Topics Outline: • Meeting current rotordynamics stability standards • High flow coefficient/mach number impellers • Low flow coefficiens/high pressure impellers; Reynolds correction Complicated high pressure gas properties. ...