Asia Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia: Recent submissions
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(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. ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)The centrifugal blower equipped with variable-frequency-drive (VFD) motor services in petrochemicalplant The unit was experienced many times of coupling failures after replacement new VFD,metallurgical study indicated ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)The Morton effect was encountered during a compressor rotor high speedbalance Morton effect for high speed balance configuration was not consideredin the design phase analysis, and it was a unique experience The high ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Dry Screw Compressor experienced HH axial displacement trip within 15 minutes after every cold start-upsince the MMS system upgrade in 2016• Failed attempt to successfully restart this compressor after every planned ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Centrifugal Pumps used at Upstream and Downstream facility are critical for Oil & Gas business However, the pump process requirement may change over time due to depleting reservoir in Upstream or new process requirement ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Unusual and repeated bladder ruptures of pulsation dampeners installed on two units ofCondensate Export Triplex Double Diaphragm Reciprocating Pumps and two units of GlycolCirculation Triplex Plunger Pumps had caused a ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Fluid film thrust bearings (TBs) carry axial loads and control the position of rotating machinery thus enabling tight clearances forthe efficient aerodynamic operation of impellers in pumps and compressors Prediction of ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)There is abundance of machinery performance data available nowadays due to recent development ofsensors and computational powerUsually those data left to complex/ advance tools (special software) and technique (AI, ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)A surface condenser is a commonly used term for a watercooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condenseexhaust steam from a steam turbine These condensers areheat exchangers which convert steam from its gaseous ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Hybrid axial impellers with a hub made of aluminum and blades of engineering plastics are commonly used as part of cooling packagesfor industrial applications The use of plastics opens for a larger design flexibility in ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Petronas Carigali Peninsular Malaysia Asset (PMA) is currently operating more than 80 units of gasturbine comprises or Power Generation and Gas Compression system More than half of a gas turbinepopulation in PETRONAS resides ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)In this paper, the author will describe how PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd started to embark on their journey in developing their ownin-house digital solution for rotating equipment remote monitoring system for the supercritical ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Radial inflow turbines (RIT), or turboexpanders, have become essential to the entire oil and gas industry, but also to specific applications in the realm of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) The ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Many of today’s gas processing plant operators face varying and often uncertainconditions This includes challenges such as the mode of operation and feed gasuncertainty For instance, gas processing plants can receive ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021) During the mechanical running test of a HP centrifugal compressor, the rotorexperienced a sudden increase of the radial vibrations During run-down thecompressor experienced a trip and high vibrations were recorded ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Recent incident reports and studies indicate that dry gas seals are responsible for only 39% of compressor shut downs and are themost reliable sealing solution However, if the dry gas seal fails the costs can be very high ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Reciprocating compressor is often used in the field of gas compression industry and generates harmonic torque excitation in adriveline The objective of this paper is to simulate the dynamic torsional vibrations by considering ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Industrial gas turbines have performance characteristics that distinctly depend on ambient and operating conditions Application of these gas turbines, as well as the control and condition monitoring, require to consider ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)Many compressor failures occur during transient operating conditions These failures can be prevented or minimized by having agood machinery condition monitoring program, a good machinery protection system and good maintenance ...
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(Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2021)In addition to the conventional analysis to identify system torsional natural frequencies for rotating machinery train, there may be arequirement to perform transient analysis if the system will be exposed to transient ...