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    A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology
    A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology
    A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology
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    A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology

    By Heinz P. Bloch

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    A Complete overview of theory, selection, design, operation, and maintenance

    This text offers a thorough overview of the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, troubleshooting, and maintenance of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors. The author examines a wide spectrum of compressors used in heavy process industries, with an emphasis on improving reliability and avoiding failure. Readers learn both the theory underlying compressors as well as the myriad day-to-day practical issues and challenges that chemical engineers and plant operation personnel must address.

    The text features:

    • Latest design and manufacturing details of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors
    • Examination of the full range of machines available for the heavy process industries
    • Thorough presentation of the arrangements, material composition, and basic laws governing the design of all important process gas compressors
    • Guidance on selecting optimum compressor configurations, controls, components, and auxiliaries to maximize reliability
    • Monitoring and performance analysis for optimal machinery condition
    • Systematic methods to avoid failure through the application of field-tested reliability enhancement concepts
    • Fluid instability and externally pressurized bearings
    • Reliability-driven asset management strategies for compressors
    • Upstream separator and filter issues

    The text's structure is carefully designed to build knowledge and skills by starting with key principles and then moving to more advanced material. Hundreds of photos depicting various types of compressors, components, and processes are provided throughout.

    Compressors often represent a multi-million dollar investment for such applications as petrochemical processing and refining, refrigeration, pipeline transport, and turbochargers and superchargers for internal combustion engines. This text enables the broad range of engineers and plant managers who work with these compressors to make the most of the investment by leading them to the best decisions for selecting, operating, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley-Interscience
    Release dateSep 18, 2006
    ISBN9780471929529
    A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology
    Author

    Heinz P. Bloch

    A consulting engineer residing in Montgomery, texas, Heinz. P. Bloch has held machinery-oriented staff and line positions with Exxon affiliates in the United States, Italy, Spain, England, The Netherlands, and Japan. His career spanned several decades prior to his 1986 retirement as Exxon Chemical's regional machinery specialist for the USA. Since his retirement from Exxon, he has been in demand throughout the world as a consultant and trainer in the areas of failure avoidance, root cause failure identification, and reliability improvement. Mr. Bloch is the author/co-author of thirteen books and over 200 other publications on subjects related to machinery reliability and failure avoidance. He is the Reliability and Equipment Editor of Hydrocarbon Processing magazine and has served as chair of the annual conference program for Hydrocarbon Processing's Process Plant Reliability Conference for a number of years.

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