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    • Cyca, Michael; Eberle, Kelly; Gendron, Guy (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Tutorial 11: Operators face significant integrity risks on offshore production facilities due to vibration of machinery and piping systems. These applications are more challenging than land-based systems because compressors, ...
    • Hafeez, Fadlil; Faizal, Mohd (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      A gas turbine's intake system usually has 3 4 stages of filtration After the primary and secondary filter, the final marine vane separator ( is used These filters are designed to keep rainwater debris, and salt from entering ...
    • Crowther, Paul; Eberle, Kelly; Ghattas, Mena (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      Many plunger pumps are installed without adequate pulsation and vibration considerations at the design stage. Pressure pulsations from normal pump operating can cause high shaking forces throughout the entire piping system. ...
    • Schaefer, Alex; Pettinato, Brian (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      Well designed and properly commissioned auxiliary systems are crucial to the reliability of rotating equipment. This paper addresses the upfront hardware selection and commissioning of pneumatically actuated control valves ...
    • Zin, Tan Chek; Sing, Ng Wei; Tharakaram, Arni R.; Koguchi, Satoshi (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Case Study 5: This paper presents a case study on the rapid deterioration of compressor polytropic efficiency relating to systemic fouling and corrosion issues. Due to such issues, compressor service life was reduced from ...
    • Schiavello, Bruno; Visser, Frank (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      This short course gives insight into roto-dynamic pump cavitation and provides deeper understanding of particulars like cavitation inception, three-percent head drop, 40,000 hours life criterion, cavitation damage potential, ...
    • Steigerwald, Tom; Wasser, Jim; Morton, John (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      As crude oil remains the dominant fuel and raw material source for transportation and industry the crude oil pipeline continues to be the preferred crude transportation method across large land masses. Along with this ...
    • Jakubiak, Jason; Mascherpa, Luigi (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      Pump Design Conditions, Sealing/Packing System Design Features, Sealing/Packing System Failures, Pump Improvements, Conclusions and Lessons Learned
    • Forsthoffer, William Eugene; Forsthoffer, Michael Sean (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Tutorial 4
    • Ahmad, Waqar (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
      A de-superheating boiler feed water pump was facing high vibration issue for last 19 years. Pump had been overhauled multiple times in past, but the issue was not resolved. Dominant frequency appearing in vibration spectrum ...
    • Dowson, David; Bauer, Derrick (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Tutorial 16: In today's market place, a large percentage of oil refinery, petrochemical, and power generation plants throughout the world have been trying to reduce their operation cost by extending the service life of ...
    • Laney, Scot; Richards, Doug; White, Nicholas (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Case Study 10: When the subject compressor was opened for an unrelated reason, it was unexpectedly found to have severe cracking, including a missing piece, on the first stage impeller and foreign object damage to the ...
    • Ashour, Mohammed; Shalabi, Mustafa (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2022)
    • Shalabi, Mustafa; Ganesh, Sankar; Al-Mubarak, Sami; Ahmad, F Bn Nawawi (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      There is a single stage vertical pump installed in Acetic Acid area in a petrochemical plant. The unit is vertical high pressure (HP) reactor feed pump (High speed single stage, 230 kW, 12338 rpm & 3.444 gear ratio) driven ...
    • Peton, Nicolas; Ganesh, Sankar (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      There are three multistage pumps supplied as part of a new project for transporting diesel from one location to another. Earlier, the transportation of diesel was carried out using trucks for this facility. The availability ...
    • Markan, Rakesh (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Case Study 11: National Fertilizers Limited, Nangal Unit, India had under taken the revamp of Steam Turbine of Synthesis Gas Compressor in January 2014. The plant startup, after machine revamp, was delayed by 40 days, ...
    • Tiow, OOI Kim (Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2016)
      Case Study 25
    • Kumar, Ajay (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      A magnetized rotating machine behaves like an electrical generator. It often produces localized stray current that usually discharges across small clearance paths imposing damage to machine internals and vibration probes. ...
    • Wygant, Karl; Robertson, Chad; Li, Fang (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      This tutorial focuses on the rotordynamic characteristics of integrally geared compressors and expanders. Although the focus is for turbomachinery the topics discussed also apply to industrial gearing. The topics covered ...
    • Kai Chiat, Cheong; Lek, Edmund; Tzuu Bin, Ng (Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2018)
      Problem Statement, Machine Information, Torsional Model & Assumption, Torsional Response & Results, Tuning Methods, Field Validation, Conclusion