Book description
Practical techniques for optimizing compressor performance
Written by experts with more than 100 combined years of industry experience in machinery failure avoidance, Compressors: How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability offers proven solutions to a pervasive and expensive problem in modern industry--compressor failure. This succinct, on-the-job guide addresses elusive causes of compressor failure and clearly maps out permanent remedies you can put to use right away. With a focus on centrifugal and reciprocating compressors, this accessible reference is based on real-world processes and procedures used by successful global companies.
Coverage includes:
- Compression principles and internal labyrinths
- Selection factors for process compressors
- Operation characteristics of turbocompressors
- Wet and dry gas seals
- Bearings, stability, and vibration guidance
- Lube and seal oil systems
- Impellers and rotors
- Compressor maintenance and surveillance
- Inspection and repair of rotors
- Machinery quality assessment (MQA)
- Failure analysis and troubleshooting
- Reciprocating compressor operation, control, maintenance, and rebuilding
- Maintenance and operations interfaces
- Reciprocating compressor monitoring and surveillance
- Training competent compressor engineers
Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Authors
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: Introduction, Compression Principles, and Internal Labyrinths
- 2: Selection Factors for Process Compressors
- 3: Operating Characteristics of Turbocompressors
- 4: Wet and Dry Gas Seals for Centrifugal Compressors
- 5: Bearings, Stability, and Vibration Guidance
- 6: Lube and Seal Oil Systems
- 7: Impellers and Rotors
- 8: Compressor Maintenance and Surveillance Highlights
- 9: Inspection and Repair Guidelines for Rotors
- 10: Machinery Quality Assessment
- 11 Compressor Failure Analysis Overview
- 12 Reciprocating Compressors: Background and Overview
- 13 Compressor Operation and Capacity Control
- 14 Reciprocating Compressor Maintenance
- 15 Maintenance and Operations Interfaces
- 16 Surveillance, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting Reciprocating Compressors
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17 Reciprocating Compressor Upgrading, Rebuilding, and Remanufacturing
- Inspection, Overhaul, and Repair
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Rebuilding
- Upgrading, Conversion, Rerate, Revamp, or Reapplication Decisions Resulting in Rebuilding, Refurbishment, and Remanufacturing of Existing Reciprocating Compressors
- Contact with Service Shops
- OEM versus Non-OEM Compressor Rebuilding, Refurbishment, Upgrading, Conversion, Rerating, Revamping, Reapplication, and Remanufacture
- What We Have Learned
- Reference
- 18 Training Competent Compressor Engineers
- Index
Product information
- Title: Compressors: How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2011
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education TAB
- ISBN: 9780071772884
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