December 2009
Columns
HP Reliability: Understanding periodic pump switching and parallel operation
Many process plants have "identical" centrifugal pumps installed in a given service. Most of these were probably intended as spare equipment. They would be started up in the event the primary pump ha..
The Author
Heinz P. Bloch resides in Montgomery, Texas. He retired as Exxon Chemical’s Regional Machinery Specialist for the U.S. and has authored or co-written more than 780 publications, among them 23 comprehensive books on practical machinery management, failure analysis, failure avoidance, compressors, steam turbines, pumps, oil mist lubrication and optimized lubrication for industry. Mr. Bloch holds BS and MS degrees (cum laude) in mechanical engineering from the Newark College of Engineering (NCE). He is one of 10 inaugural inductees into NCE’s Hall of Fame, which honors its most distinguished alumni.
Related Articles
- Improve sour water stripper unit performance via feed sour water preconditioning
- Causes and countermeasures for a compressor lube oil system failure due to delayed oil pressure recovery by an auxiliary lube oil pump
- Application of systems engineering principles in a reliability assessment of air-cooled heat exchangers
Comments