Maintenance & Reliability
Avoid costly engineering faults, missteps and miscalculations
Experience does count, especially in achieving success in capital and revamp projects
Nickel recycle: Extending service life for reformer tubes
Case studies investigate methods to conserve high-nickel tubes for fertilizer facilities
Consider new materials for ethylene furnace applications
An innovative metallurgy solves maintenance issues
Testing and repair options for critical dry-gas seal: Updates
Do your research when sending compressor seals out for renovations
How to justify root-cause failure analysis for pumps
New method uses annualized risk to determine RCFA analysis levels
Optimize reordering of critical raw materials and parts
New models evaluate the ‘total’ costs in receiving and storing materials for a refinery
Case 62: Useful shaft stress equations to remember
Committing several equations to memory can be useful
Update on designing for high-fouling liquids
A critical analysis of shell and tube exchanger systems looks at ‘clean and dirty’ service performance
HP Reliability: Consider ‘water washing’ for steam turbines
Occasions may arise when deposits form on the internal parts of steam turbines. The accumulation of these deposits may be indicated by a gradual increase in stage pressures over time with no evidence ..
HP Water Management: Legionella — to test or not to test?
Legionella pneumophila (“legionella”) bacteria cause Legionellosis, a pneumonia-like illness that infects persons with compromised immune systems and can be fatal. These bacteria are common ..
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- Sumitomo Chemical achieves scale-up of its process for producing propylene directly from ethanol 8/20
- EcoCortec, Jakob Schober GmbH awarded sustainability award for closed-loop circular films solution 8/20
- Addverb reinvents its factory automation development with Siemens Xcelerator 8/20
- Sanctions-hit Indian refiner Nayara turns to ‘dark fleet’ 8/20
- EIA: Crude and gasoline inventories fall, distillates rise 8/20
