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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Identifying very small equipment leaks
Jan-2008
Very small leaks in feed/effluent exchangers can be identified using chemical tracing. This online technique can detect leaks as low as 5.0 ppm, avoiding ...
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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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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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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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Dec-2015
Why is elevated vibration during surge often absent from the data collected by the online vibration monitoring software?
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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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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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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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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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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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Identifying very small equipment leaks
Jan-2008
Very small leaks in feed/effluent exchangers can be identified using chemical tracing. This online technique can detect leaks as low as 5.0 ppm, avoiding ...
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Oil/water interface control for desalters
Oct-2007
Profiling instrument provides vertical real-time phase density measurement in desalter vessels. Benefits include reduced process upsets from interface ...
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Jan-2007
Gamma scanning is a powerful tool that can be used to determine the cause of flooding and regain column efficiency. Debutaniser capacity and performance ...