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A Probabilistic Approach for Compressor Sizing and Plant Design
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2013)
Equipment sizing decisions in the Oil and Gas Industry often have to be made based on incomplete data. Often, the exact process conditions are based on numerous assumptions about well performance, market conditions, ...
Separation Seal Upgrade To Overcome Repetitive Failures
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2013)
Vertically-Suspended Pumps With Water-Lubricated Rubber Bearings - Experimental Identification Of Dynamic Stiffness Coefficients
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2013)
Design and development of vertically-suspended water pumps requires good understanding of the rotor system characteristics with water-lubricated rubber bearings (WLRB). This paper presents a newly-built experimental device ...
Co2 Capture And Pumping
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2013)
Breaking The Cycle Of Pump Repairs
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2013)
Achieving lowest possible life cycle cost (LCC) and valueoptimized mean-times-between-repairs (MTBRs) are the undisputed goals of thoughtful pump users. Achieving these goals requires concentrating not only on pump hydraulics, ...
Bearing Maintenance Practices To Ensure Maximum Bearing Life
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2013)
Reliability of centrifugal pumps is heavily dependent on bearing reliability. The bearings that support the impeller shaft are complex machine components whose service life is directly affected by: Contamination (both ...
Witness Testing Of API 610 Centrifugal Pumps And API 611 Steam Turbines
(Turbomachinery Laboratories, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 2013)
The tutorial outlines the basic concepts and offers some tips on witness testing of API 610 centrifugal pumps and API 611 steam turbines. The section on API 610 pump testing discusses performance, NPSH and mechanical run ...
Coupling Credible Failure Modes and Owner Options to Intervene
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2013)
While all machine component failures can impact reliability, cost and production, some like coupling failures may have safety risks for personnel. Intervention requires us to build appropriate steps into our machine and ...
Limitations of ASME PTC 10 in Accurately Evaluation Centrifugal Compressor Thermodynamic Performance
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2013)
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) “Performance Test Code on Compressors and Exhausters,” ASME PTC 10-1997, has served worldwide as the standard for determining centrifugal compressor thermodynamic performance ...
History of Gear Failures in a Steam Turbine Driven Integrally Geared Compressor
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2013)