Engineering Maintenance: Improving Plant Reliability Volume 1 - electronic book

• Guidance for overall maintenance programs and turnaround optimization
• Maintenance recommendations for boiler-water-treatment systems, agitators, sealing systems, burner systems, boilers, steam-handling units, and distillation systems
• Strategies for maintaining rotating machinery and flow-measurement accuracy
• Cost engineering and lifecycle analysis for capital equipment
• Practical engineering tips for predictive maintenance and equipment reliability
• Commissioning and startup best practices

• Process operators
• Plant maintenance engineers
• Reliability engineers
• Operations managers
• Project and turnaround managers

Articles

• Effective Agitator Operation and Maintenance
• Maintaining Heat-Transfer-Fluid Quality
• Steam Concepts
• Heat Exchanger Standards for Shell-and-Tube Equipment
• Special Flange Joints Used in Floating-Head Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers
• Plant Revamps and Turnarounds: Some Lessons Learned
• Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamp
• Flow Measurement in Large Lines, Ducts and Stacks
• Operating Strategies for Gas Dehydration Units
• Pump Sizing and Selection Made Easy
• An Investigation of Premature Flooding in a Distillation Column
• Cost Engineering: Equipment Purchase Costs
• Lifecycle Costs for Capital Equipment in the CPI
• Liquid-Gas Coalescers: The Effects of Retrograde Condensation
• Seal Material Properties
• Performance Prediction for Industrial Boilers
• Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers: The Design Cycle
• Rotating Machines: Digital Technologies to Enable Predictive Maintenance
• Connecting Operations Personnel to Reliability Efforts
• Precision Grouting: Setting the Foundation for Equipment Reliability
• Torque Limiter Technologies for Rotating Machinery
• The Unrecognized Problems of Relocating Laboratories
• Heat Transfer in Wiped Film Evaporators
• Filter Aids
• Best Practices in Capital Equipment Commissioning
• Commissioning and Startup: Increase Certainty Through Advanced Planning
• Experimental Methodologies to Verify Distillation Simulations
• Avoid Common Mistakes When Specifying Burner Management Systems
• Heat-Transfer Fluid Selection
• Treating Boiler Feedwater for Reliable Operation
• Protecting Sensor Data Transmitted Wirelessly: A Grounds-Up Approach

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