Maintenance & Reliability
Use gas conditioning to improve compressor gas seal life
Here's how to ensure a continuous supply of clean and dry buffer gas
HP Reliability: Consider dry gas seals for centrifugal compressors
For over five decades, centrifugal compressors have benefited from mechanical field technology. The early compressors of the 1950s often struggled with cumbersome labyrinth sealing and gas eductor arr..
Case 24: The moving gearbox
Thermal distortions can move a 50-ton gearbox
HP Reliability: Straightening carbon steel shafts
Before attempting to straighten a shaft, try to determine how the bend was produced. If the bend was produced by an inherent stress relieved during the machining operation, during heat proofing, on th..
Introduction to NACE standard MR0103
Use these materials to reduce sulfide stress cracking in corrosive refinery environments
HP Reliability: Consider casting salvaging methods
Repair-welding process machinery cast components is frequently not possible. Fortunately, however, there are salvaging methods that do not involve welding: Controlled-atmosphere furnace brazing ..
NPSHA —how much is enough?
Follow these guidelines to avoid pump damage
Cure liquid carryover from compressor suction drums
Here's how to apply mist eliminators for higher throughput and efficiency
HP Reliability: Substantive change needed
"When reform becomes the status quo," says Frederick M. Hess, executive editor of Education Next and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, "then you'll encounter symbolic activity rat..
Improve FCC yields to meet changing environment—Part 2
Controlling emissions is another vital component for revamp projects
- Topsoe and Sasol bring advanced SAF technology to Allied Biofuel’s landmark project in Uzbekistan 7/14
- OMV receives €450-MM loan from the European Investment Bank for its 140-MW green hydrogen production facility 7/13
- Poland's Unimot says it will supply crude to Germany's Schwedt refinery 7/13
- Hormuz traffic slows to two-month low as renewed U.S., Iran strikes raise safety risk 7/13
- Sinopec deepens aviation fuel push with CNAF restructuring 7/13
- Indian naphtha premiums surge as Gulf, Russian supply tightens 7/13
