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Rotating Equipment

Avoid cavitation in butterfly valves

Use these coefficients to determine safe throttling positions

Understand cavitation in reciprocating pumps

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.: Sahoo, T.

Use these guidelines to help avoid problems

Pitfalls of operating pumps at part load

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

The risk in terms of reduced reliability and safety is not worth it

Troubleshooting repetitive failure of a CO2 ompressor rotor

National Fertilizers Limited: Agarwal, S.  |  Bangar, V. K.  |  Gupta, O. P.

Here's how the plant personnel overcame the unique and complex problem of residual magnetism

Use ejectors to reduce operating costs

Reliance Industries Ltd.: Nayek, S. K.  |  Venkatesh, R.

Here are some uncommon applications for the technology

A simple way to estimate equipment pressure drops

Jacobs Engineering: Yu, F.

The equivalent line length method can be used to estimate equipment pressure drop at different operating conditions

Root-cause failure analysis applied to a gas turbine failure

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL): Chatterjee, S. K.

This case study illustrates the method

Retrofitting pillow-block bearings with optimized oil mist lubrication

Lubrication Systems Co.: Branham, D. C.

This refinery significantly increased bearing life

Reliability driven asset management strategy for reciprocating compressors

Nutech Ontario: Pradhan, S. A.

Use these methods to reduce mean-time-to-repair and increase availability

Oil mist lubrication for electric motors

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Bloch, Heinz P.

Use these guidelines to improve reliability and efficiency