ARTICLES
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Dec-2015
Why is elevated vibration during surge often absent from the data collected by the online vibration monitoring software?
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Oct-2017
Important considerations when using crosshead acceleration and frame velocity to monitor and protect a reciprocating compressor
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Improving a compressor protection regime
Jul-2014
Analysis of the build-up to the fracture of a compressor crosshead led a refiner to revise its approach to performance monitoring
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Using a commercial process historian for full-featured machinery condition monitoring
Nov-2015
Can a commercial process historian be used to replace stand-alone condition monitoring software — including acquisition and display of high-speed vibration ...
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Optimise control systems with preventive maintenance
Aug-2014
Ensuring equipment integrity by conducting thorough maintenance provides multiple benefits for your operation, from maximising machine uptime and minimising ...
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Aug-2017
An Indian refinery has cut the power consumption of a reciprocating compressor on a hydrocracker by 86 kW and saves approximately €55000/y on energy ...
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Compressor review leads upgrade
Jul-2014
A thorough performance review of 40 reciprocating compressors at the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery in Kuwait will form the basis for future upgrades to improve ...
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Digital comms protect 
compressors better
Nov-2013
Digital communications technologies are aiding condition monitoring of reciprocating compressors by reducing installation costs and increasing reliabi ...
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Enabling the refinery of the future — safety first
Sep-2015
The recent downturn in oil prices has reduced feedstock purchasing costs for the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). As a result, refineries are running ...
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Mar-2017
Market for short stroke moderate speed reciprocating compressors in downstream process gas compression
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Is your radial turbomachinery operating at optimum?
Sep-2014
Bryan Research and Engineering, Inc. (BRE) has developed an online, equipment performance monitoring application for radial turbo-machinery in cryogenic ...
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Hazardous — or harmless? Machinery has not changed, but demands have
Apr-2010
Based on the example of the ”reciprocating compressor” machine, this article will present current state of the art technology as well as explain how ...
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Compressor improvements turn benchmarks into savings
Feb-2018
How can refiners create real improvements at plant level? Reciprocating compressors are likely candidates.
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Selecting turboexpanders for PDH
Dec-2020
Expander compressors with active magnetic bearings increase reliability and simplify operations with lower maintenance costs in a propane dehydrogenation ...
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Breaking down control barriers
Feb-2015
Many processes and reliability engineers believe that process control & optimisation and asset condition monitoring live in two separate worlds.
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Getting to grips with noise (TIA)
Jul-2016
A particular challenge when designing valves for compressible media and in particular steam is the noise calculation.
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Modular compressor package for refiners (TIA)
Aug-2018
Volatile spot market prices for crude oil and products, as well as growing stringent legislation requirements for environmentally friendly fuels for all ...
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Cost-driven natural gas vs hydrogen power for generators (RI 2023)
Nov-2023
Regulatory policies promoting green hydrogen are accelerating, but natural gas (NG) is far more competitive on a per-cost basis.
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Pump operating issue case study: Identifying the poor performance root cause (TiA)
Feb-2024
Problem: An alkylation unit’s main fractionator reboiler pumps were experiencing operational problems. Two 100% pumps were available: one online and ...
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Design configurations for lowering quenched coke drum venting pressure
Feb-2023
Compare the advantages when installing either an ejector or a water ring compressor for lowering coke drum venting pressure.
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Enhancing environmental sustainability in the oil and gas industry: the REE concept (RI 2023)
Nov-2023
The oil and gas industry stands at a crossroads, facing the urgent need for sustainable practices amid global environmental concerns. Hoerbiger, a global ...
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Digital transformation of component repair boosts compressor uptime
Oct-2022
Valves, packing, and other replaceable components have a key influence on the performance and reliability of reciprocating compressors.
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Maintenance and reliability for rotating equipment closing the loop
May-2024
Maintenance of rotating equipment is a vast subject that could fill volumes.
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Optimising compressor dry gas seal line design in FEED stage
May-2024
A proactive approach to engineering excellence is presented by a strategic initiative to enhance the design of compressor dry gas seal lines within FEED ...
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Hazardous — or harmless? Machinery has not changed, but demands have
Apr-2010
Based on the example of the ”reciprocating compressor” machine, this article will present current state of the art technology as well as explain how ...
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Enabling the refinery of the future — safety first
Sep-2015
The recent downturn in oil prices has reduced feedstock purchasing costs for the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI). As a result, refineries are running ...
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Predicting centrifugal compressor performance
Jan-2019
When a plant revamp is planned, assessing an existing centrifugal compressor to meet new performance requirements is essential.
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Recips need dedicated vibration monitoring systems
Mar-2013
Avoiding ‘crater maintenance’ and the ‘doom loop’ Reciprocating compressors have a reputation as bad actors among the rotating equipment fleet; ...
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Sharing the load: proper control methods for parallel refrigeration compressors
Jan-2015
Parallel refrigeration machines have been in use for decades in the LNG industry primarily for the Phillips Cascade LNG process which utilises parallel ...
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Improving FCCUs: bottoms system upgrades
Jul-2003
A review of process flow scheme fundamentals and basic equipment operating and design principles that have improved unit operating profitability through ...
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Expanding FCCU wet gas compressor capacity
Apr-2007
Parametric correlations can predict WGC performance curves at different speeds and molecular weights. However, performance curves in a range of speeds ...
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Optimise control systems with preventive maintenance
Aug-2014
Ensuring equipment integrity by conducting thorough maintenance provides multiple benefits for your operation, from maximising machine uptime and minimising ...
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Control and safety systems for turbomachinery
Dec-2014
All plant workers want to reduce the safety risk associated with turbomachinery operation while avoiding nuisance trips.
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Continuously improving machinery performance (TIA)
Jun-2015
Through regular inspection and selective or continuous monitoring, traditional maintenance measures are intended to uncover damaged valves or signs of ...
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Optimising turbomachinery energy savings with control technologies
Aug-2015
Virtually every plant manager who works in a hydrocarbon processing, power-generation or other industrial facility can relate to the need to optimise energy ...
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Automatic diagnosis of critical rotating equipment: techniques and challenges
Aug-2015
The past 20 years have seen continuous progress in the technological means available for monitoring the condition of Rotating Equipment.
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Modular compressor package for hydrotreating (TIA)
Oct-2015
Fast changes in spot market prices for both crude oil and products have forced refiners to plan investments for higher operational flexibility.
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Using a commercial process historian for full-featured machinery condition monitoring
Nov-2015
Can a commercial process historian be used to replace stand-alone condition monitoring software — including acquisition and display of high-speed vibration ...
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Dec-2015
Why is elevated vibration during surge often absent from the data collected by the online vibration monitoring software?
-
Getting to grips with noise (TIA)
Jul-2016
A particular challenge when designing valves for compressible media and in particular steam is the noise calculation.
-
Aug-2017
An Indian refinery has cut the power consumption of a reciprocating compressor on a hydrocracker by 86 kW and saves approximately €55000/y on energy ...
-
Modular compressor package for refiners (TIA)
Aug-2018
Volatile spot market prices for crude oil and products, as well as growing stringent legislation requirements for environmentally friendly fuels for all ...
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Digital transformation of component repair boosts compressor uptime
Oct-2022
Valves, packing, and other replaceable components have a key influence on the performance and reliability of reciprocating compressors.
-
Compressor review leads upgrade
Jul-2014
A thorough performance review of 40 reciprocating compressors at the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery in Kuwait will form the basis for future upgrades to improve ...
-
Digital comms protect 
compressors better
Nov-2013
Digital communications technologies are aiding condition monitoring of reciprocating compressors by reducing installation costs and increasing reliabi ...
-
Cost-driven natural gas vs hydrogen power for generators (RI 2023)
Nov-2023
Regulatory policies promoting green hydrogen are accelerating, but natural gas (NG) is far more competitive on a per-cost basis.
-
Enhancing environmental sustainability in the oil and gas industry: the REE concept (RI 2023)
Nov-2023
The oil and gas industry stands at a crossroads, facing the urgent need for sustainable practices amid global environmental concerns. Hoerbiger, a global ...
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Optimising compressor dry gas seal line design in FEED stage
May-2024
A proactive approach to engineering excellence is presented by a strategic initiative to enhance the design of compressor dry gas seal lines within FEED ...
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Protecting compressors with dynamic simulation
Apr-2014
Dynamic simulation supports reliable operation of compressor installations to deliver maximum plant availability and productivity
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Enhance processing with capacity control of reciprocating compressors
Apr-2014
Improvements to refinery, petrochemical and gas processing are available from the full-range stepless capacity control of reciprocating compressors
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Enhanced control techniques for cryogenic turboexpander recompressors
Feb-2014
Turboexpander compression trains are commonly used in petrochemical processes for extracting the heavier hydrocarbons from natural gas.
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Digital comms protect 
compressors better
Nov-2013
Digital communications technologies are aiding condition monitoring of reciprocating compressors by reducing installation costs and increasing reliabi ...
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Combating green oil formation in a CCR reformer
Jul-2013
The addition of a chloride adsorber guard bed solved a refiner’s issues with contamination affecting a CCR reformer’s rich gas compressor
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Improving reliability and efficiency in centrifugal pumps
Jul-2013
Conversion of metal pump wear parts to advanced composite materials can lead to substantial annual cost savings
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Recips need dedicated vibration monitoring systems
Mar-2013
Avoiding ‘crater maintenance’ and the ‘doom loop’ Reciprocating compressors have a reputation as bad actors among the rotating equipment fleet; ...
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Bridging the gap between safety protection and condition monitoring
Mar-2013
In the process industry it is still common that users strictly separate safety protection equipment from condition monitoring. Machine operators frequently ...
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Reciprocating compressor suction and discharge valve monitoring
Feb-2013
A decision making guideline evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the most common online monitoring technologies
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Maximising ethane in liquids crackers
Jan-2013
Economics for energy and feedstock supply favour ethane feed cracking, but plant constraints must be examined rigorously before maximum ethane feeds are ...
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Monitoring and diagnostics for reciprocating compressors
Jul-2012
A guide to the purpose and terminology of monitoring systems that ensure effective operation of reciprocating compressors
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Rapid analysis of wear metals in used oils by automated ICP-OES
Jun-2012
Condition monitoring is essential to the efficient operation of large plant and machinery, and is the use of physical and chemical techniques to check ...
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Combating the threat of mercury
Mar-2012
Emerging legally binding action on mercury emissions highlights the importance of monitoring and quantifying emissions from gas operations
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Early failure detection and shutdown of critical compressor due to a crosshead fracture
Aug-2011
Over the last few years it has become more and more apparent that operators of piston compressors use specific monitoring systems particular for their ...
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Cost-effective condition monitoring
Jul-2011
The elemental analysis of used lubricating oil has become an essential part of “condition monitoring”, the use of physical and chemical techniques ...
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Estimating compressor power and condenser duty in a refrigerant system
Oct-2010
A simple-to-use predictive tool calculates compressor power and condenser duty per refrigeration duty in a three-stage propane refrigerant system
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Revamping centrifugal compressors at an ethylene plant
Oct-2010
Technical improvements and increased throughput justify the revamp of a Russian ethylene plant’s compressors
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Condition Monitoring - the analysis of used oil
Jun-2010
The elemental analysis of used lubricating oil has become an essential part of “condition monitoring”, the use of physical and chemical techniques ...
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Hazardous — or harmless? Machinery has not changed, but demands have
Apr-2010
Based on the example of the ”reciprocating compressor” machine, this article will present current state of the art technology as well as explain how ...
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Improving turbocompressor availability
Jul-2009
Modular replacement maintenance can reduce major overhaul downtime by nearly 50%, and time between combustion and major overhauls can also be extended
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Expanding FCCU wet gas compressor capacity
Apr-2007
Parametric correlations can predict WGC performance curves at different speeds and molecular weights. However, performance curves in a range of speeds ...
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Centrifugal compressor operations
Jul-2004
The wet gas compressor is used as an example in this article reviewing compressor performance, operating conditions and basic control philosophy
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Improving FCCUs: bottoms system upgrades
Jul-2003
A review of process flow scheme fundamentals and basic equipment operating and design principles that have improved unit operating profitability through ...
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Understanding centrifugal compressor performance
Apr-2002
In a connected process system, expensive changes to the compressor and driver can be avoided with system debottlenecking modifications
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