Select low cost, high quality steam turbines quickly and easily A must for plant engineers looking to stay competitive in today's intense global marketplace., Heinz P. Bloch's Practical Guide to Steam Turbine Technology takes you step-by-step through the art of designing and selecting more reliable, cost-efficient turbomachinery. It includes everything you need to master steam turbine technology--from basic types and controls to the Elliot Shortcut selection method for multivalve, multistage systems. You get fingertip access to critical data on casing design. . .mechanical drive bearings. . .impulse and reaction turbine rotors. . .blade design. . .governors and control systems. . .couplings. . .rotor dynamics. . .reaction vs. impulse steam turbines. . .performance degradation. . .transmission elements. . .shortcut graphical selection methods. . .and more.

A Practical Guide to Steam Turbine Technology

Science & Math

Bloch, Heinz P.

Nature & Ecology

McGraw-Hill Professional

Select, operate, and maintain optimal-cost, high-quality compression equipment that works at peak efficiency with minimum downtime This incredible process gas compressor guide arms you with field-tested techniques for operating, selecting, and maintaining the full range of positive displacement and dynamic compressor operating characteristics, application ranges, efficiencies, reliability, and more. 
 You get complete details on the arrangements, materials composition, and basic laws governing compressor design; expert guidance on operating various types of heavy process industry equipment; tips for selecting optimum compressor configurations, controls, components, and auxiliaries; and much more.

A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology

Chemistry

McGraw=Hill

Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting: Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants

Solve the machinery failure problems costing you time and money with this classic, comprehensive guide to analysis and troubleshooting <ul>
<li>Provides detailed, complete and accurate information on anticipating risk of component failure and avoiding equipment downtime</li>
<li>Includes numerous photographs of failed parts to ensure you are familiar with the visual evidence you need to recognize</li>
<li>Covers proven approaches to failure definition and offers failure identification and analysis methods that can be applied to virtually all problem situations</li>
<li>Demonstrates with examples how the progress and results of failure analysis and troubleshooting efforts can be documented and monitored</li> </ul>
Failures of machinery in a plant setting can have wide-ranging consequences and in order to stay competitive, corporations across all industries must optimize the efficiency and reliability of their machinery. Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting is a trusted, established reference in the field, authored by two well-known authorities on failure and reliability. Structured to teach failure identification and analysis methods that can be applied to almost all problem situations, this eagerly awaited update takes in the wealth of technological advances and changes in approach seen since the last edition published more than a decade ago. Covering both the engineering detail and management theory, Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting provides a robust go-to reference and training resource for all engineers and managers working in manufacturing and process plants.

Business & Money

Geitner, Fred K.

Management & Leadership

Butterworth-Heinemann

This updated edition is an invaluable source of practical cost-effective maintenance, repair, installation, and field verification procedures for machinery engineers. It is filled with step-by-step instructions and quick-reference checklists that describe preventive and predictive maintenance for major process units such as vertical, horizontal, reciprocating, and liquid ring vacuum pumps, fans and blowers, compressors, turboexpanders, turbines, and more. Also included are sections on machinery protection, storage, lubrication, and periodic monitoring. A new section examines centrifugal pumps and explains how and why they continue to fail. More new information focuses on maintenance for aircraft derivative gas turbines. This revised edition gives special attention throughout to maintenance and repair procedures needed to ensure efficiency, performance, and long life.

Practical Machinery Management For Process Plants, Second Edition: Major Process Equipment Maintenance and Repair

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Gulf Professional Publishing

Petrochemical Machinery Insights is a priceless collection of solutions and advice from Heinz Bloch on a broad range of equipment management themes, from wear to warranty issues, organizational problems and oil mist lubrication, and professional growth and pre-purchase of machinery. The author draws on his industry experience to hone in on important problems that do not get addressed in other books, providing actionable details that engineers can use. Mechanical, reliability, and process engineers will find this book the next best thing to having Heinz Bloch on speed dial.
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<li>Focuses on pieces of hard-won experience from the industry that are rarely included in other books</li>
<li>Presents not just a guide to technical problems, but also to crucial themes in management and organization</li>
<li>Includes an informal and honest style, making author Heinz Bloch's 40 years of experience accessible to a broad audience of readers</li>
<li>Contains a uniting theme that successful asset management requires the separation of application and implementation details</li>
</ul>

Petrochemical Machinery Insights

Solve the machinery failure problems costing you time and money with this classic, comprehensive guide to analysis and troubleshooting Provides detailed, complete and accurate information on anticipating risk of component failure and avoiding equipment downtimeIncludes numerous photographs of failed parts to ensure you are familiar with the visual evidence you need to recognizeCovers proven approaches to failure definition and offers failure identification and analysis methods that can be applied to virtually all problem situationsDemonstrates with examples how the progress and results of failure analysis and troubleshooting efforts can be documented and monitored  Failures of machinery in a plant setting can have wide-ranging consequences and in order to stay competitive, corporations across all industries must optimize the efficiency and reliability of their machinery. Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting is a trusted, established reference in the field, authored by two well-known authorities on failure and reliability. Structured to teach failure identification and analysis methods that can be applied to almost all problem situations, this eagerly awaited update takes in the wealth of technological advances and changes in approach seen since the last edition published more than a decade ago. Covering both the engineering detail and management theory, Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting provides a robust go-to reference and training resource for all engineers and managers working in manufacturing and process plants. Provides detailed, complete and accurate information on anticipating risk of component failure and avoiding equipment downtimePresents documented failure case studies and analyzes the procedures employed to define events that led to component or systems failureIncludes numerous photographs of failed parts to ensure readers are familiar with the visual evidence they need to recognize

Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair, Fourth Edition, Volume three in the Practical Machinery Managment for Process Plants series provides the latest research and industry approaches in easy to understand, bite-sized chunks. Extending the life of existing machinery is the name of the game in the process industries, and this classic text is still the best, most practical and comprehensive source for doing just that. This updated edition is completely revised and updated throughout, especially in sections regarding Maintenance Organization and Control for Multi-Plant Corporations, Repair and Maintenance of Rotating Equipment Components, and Protecting Machinery Parts Against Loss of Surface.

Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair (Volume 3) (Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants, Volume 3)

Oil mist lubrication is used on literaily thousands of pumps and electric motors in the U.S. petrochemical industry. This lubrication method has been demonstrated to reduce rolling element bearing failures by as much as 90%, generating significant technical and economic advantages over other lubrication systems. Here is the complete explanatory guide to this modern reliability and profitability improvement approach. The comprehensive text explains how extensive research at Texas A&M University in the late 1980's and early 1990's has solidified our understanding of the underlying reasons why and how oil mist actually works in the safest, most reliable, and cost-effective fashion.

Oil Mist Lubrication: Practical Applications

Shamim, Abdus

Mathematics

PRENTICE/HALL

Process Plant machinery is a unique single-source reference for chemical engineers, managers, and technical personnel who need to acquire an understanding of the machinery used in modern process plants: prime movers and power transmission machiners; pumping equipment; gas compression machinery; and mixing, conveying, and separation equipment. Starting with an overview of each class, the book quickly leads the reader through practical applications and size considerations into profusely illustrated component descriptions. Where necessary, standard theory is expertly explained in shortcut formulas and graphs. Maintainability and vulnerability concerns are dealt with as well.

Process Plant Machinery

Newnes

A modern reference to the principles, operation, and applications of the most important compressor types Thoroughly addressing process-related information and a wider variety of the major compressor types of interest to process plants, Compressors and Modern Process Applications uniquely covers the systematic linkage of fluid processing machinery to the processes they serve. This book is a highly practical resource for professionals responsible for purchasing, servicing, or operating compressors. It describes the main features of over 300 petrochemical and refining schematics and associated process descriptions involving compressors and expanders in modern industry. The organized presentation of this reference covers first the basics of compressors and what they are, and then progresses to important operational and process issues. It then explains the underlying principles, operating modes, selection issues, and major hardware elements for compressors. Topics include double-acting positive displacement compressors, rotary positive displacement compressors, understanding centrifugal process gas compressors, power transmission and advanced bearing technology, centrifugal compressor performance, gas processing and turbo-expander applications, and compressors typically found in petroleum refining and other petrochemical processes. Suitable for plant operation personnel, machinery engineering specialists, process engineers,as well as undergraduate students of this subject, this book's special features include: * Flow schematics of modern process units and processes used in gas transport, gas conditioning, petrochemical manufacture, and petroleum refining * Listings of licensors for each process on the flow schematics * Identification of each process flow schematic of compressors, cryogenic, and hot gas expanders at their respective locations * Important overview of surge control, estimating compressor performance, applications for air separation and gas processing plants, petroleum refinery issues, and important criteria that govern compressor selection and application Placing hundreds of associated process flow schematics at the fingertips of professionals and students, author and industry expert Heinz Bloch facilitates comprehension of the workings of various petrochemical, oil refining, and product upgrading processes that are served by compressors.

Compressors and Modern Process Applications

Godse, Arvind

Wiley-Interscience

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A Practical Guide to Steam Turbine Technology

A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology

Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting: Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants

Practical Machinery Management For Process Plants, Second Edition: Major Process Equipment Maintenance and Repair

Petrochemical Machinery Insights

Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting: Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants

Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair (Volume 3) (Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants, Volume 3)

Oil Mist Lubrication: Practical Applications

Process Plant Machinery

Compressors and Modern Process Applications