Maintenance & Reliability
HP Reliability: Electric motors and mechanical efficiency
Reliability-focused readers know quite a bit about oil mist and many use plantwide oil mist systems for their process pumps and electric motor drivers. In fact, some major grassroots olefins plants us..
Estimate water hammer loads in steam piping
The problem is more complicated because of the two-phase flow
HP Reliability: Why continuing education gets dropped first
Fact: An oil refinery in the Western US achieves a pump mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) of over nine years. The facility has 1,200 pumps and, in a given year, repairs 130 of them. Fact: An oil refine..
Designing and troubleshooting stabilization plant filtration systems—Part 1
Compatability of the filter cartridge media with the plant feed is a major consideration
HP Reliability: Consider recessed-impeller pumps
Perhaps you have encountered pumping duties handling free-flowing slurries, sludge and fibrous materials. If used in these services, a standard centrifugal pump may clog, become vapor-bound or wear ex..
What's new in vertical enclosed shaft-driven sump pumps
Advanced designs incorporate axial-spiral design casing internals and fully recessed impellers
Proper gasket removal and replacement can reduce maintenance and increase uptime
Follow these guidelines for trouble-free performance
Risk-based inspection, panacea for plant failures?
Understand the limitations for an effective implementation
Case 50: Gearbox input shaft failure analysis
Make sure the same failures are not repeated at your affiliated plant sites
Improve cooling tower gear drive reliability
Applying commodity products instead of engineered solutions can cause premature failure
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