A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology

✍ Scribed by Heinz P. Bloch

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 574
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Complete overview of theory, selection, design, operation, and maintenanceThis 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 compressorsExamination of the full range of machines available for the heavy process industriesThorough presentation of the arrangements, material composition, and basic laws governing the design of all important process gas compressorsGuidance on selecting optimum compressor configurations, controls, components, and auxiliaries to maximize reliabilityMonitoring and performance analysis for optimal machinery conditionSystematic methods to avoid failure through the application of field-tested reliability enhancement conceptsFluid instability and externally pressurized bearingsReliability-driven asset management strategies for compressorsUpstream separator and filter issuesThe 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.

✦ Table of Contents

A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology, 2nd Edition......Page 1
Front matter......Page 2
Introduction Part 1......Page 18
ch01......Page 20
ch02......Page 45
ch03......Page 79
ch04......Page 114
ch05......Page 123
ch06......Page 135
ch07......Page 143
ch08......Page 149
ch09......Page 154
ch10......Page 183
Introduction Part 2......Page 209
ch11......Page 216
ch12......Page 225
ch13......Page 308
ch14......Page 347
ch15......Page 364
ch16......Page 369
ch17......Page 387
ch18......Page 400
ch19......Page 413
ch20......Page 446
ch21......Page 480
Appendix A......Page 501
Appendix B......Page 509
Appendix C......Page 552
Index......Page 557