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by: Heinz P. Bloch
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Topics include: turnaround scope, pack couplings, lube oil purification, allowable piping load, bearing identification code, precision alignment program, critical speed map, secondary sealing device, strategic level measurements, face temperature rise, critical speed analysis, coupling unbalance, work process documentation, regreasable bearings, seal oil supply, machinery distress, end face mechanical seals, pressurized barrier fluid, dimensional outline drawing, eliminating cooling water, scheduled lubrication, carbon bushings, flexible stator, tangential driving load, seal stiffness
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Long before machinery specifications can be prepared, the plant designers perform scoping studies encompassing a large number of options. From Book News, Inc. Sets out proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance cots, and achieve optimum machinery reliability in the petroleum processing industry. Draws from the Best Practices in the US and Europe, and compares them with Good and Better Practices. Earlier editions were published in 1982 and 1988; the new material here includes availability and reliability statistics for major machinery, benchmarking data, guidance for relevant life-cycle cost studies, electric motor reliability, modern sealing technology, and synthetic lubricants. Well illustrated with line drawings and graphs. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Review The book begins with advice on writing a proper equipment specification, stressing the importance of getting and keeping complete installation, operation, and maintenance instructions. (Electrical Apparatus) Sets out proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance costs, and achieve optimum machinery reliability in the petroleum processing industry. (SciTech Book News)
Book Description This totally revised, updated and expanded edition provides proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance costs, and achieve optimum machinery reliability. This essential text clearly describes the reliability improvement and failure avoidance steps practiced by best-of-class process plants in the U.S. and Europe. Book Info Provides proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance costs, and achieve optimum machinery reliability. DLC: Machinery - Reliability. About the Author 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.
Reviews:
The most practical text available on the subject: There's a profusion of books that explain the philosophy of equipment reliability improvement, but only this totally up-to-date text will show the reader how to specify, evaluate, buy, properly install, maintain and upgrade critically important pumps, compressors, and other machinery. This third edition is almost entirely new and has nearly twice as many pages as the earlier editions. The guidance on turnaround planning alone is of immense value, as are the chapters on benchmarking and life cycle costing. Many readers will find the appendix especially helpful for determining the life cycle cost impact of intelligent purchase and installation decisions for centrifugal pumps.
Indispensable for the reliability professional! The author has really outdone himself with this completely revised, updated third edition! I will be able to apply his newly included guidelines on what equipment should be included in turnarounds. I found the electric motor procurement guidelines immensely helpful: Bloch "demistifies" the hype about high efficiency motors. His material on the reliability impact of state-of-art, centralized greasing systems is superb. He has added to his wealth of information a number of "zero cost" tips on pump upgrading which, after implementation on a single pump, will have paid for the book a hundred times. We plan to make extensive use of the informative chapter on gas seals for compressors and centrifugal pumps and will pay close attention to John Mitchell's 26-page introduction to this profusely illustrated 650-page book. What a great teaching tool for the next generation of reliability technicians!