Category: #1 – Rotating Equipment

  • 1.4 – Machinery Lubrication (under construction)

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    1.  Sliding motion produces more wear than rolling motion.  Worm gear moves in sliding motion and cause temperature rise. 2.  A lot of wear will occur during startup, shutdown, low speed or high load conditions. During this time, machine is operating in […]

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  • 1.3 – Vibration Analysis (under construction)

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    I. Equipment Vibrations Reliability team in a typical oil refinery will measure the baseline vibration signature of a rotating equipment and interpret its FFT spectral to ascertain if an equipment is correctly installed. These baseline vibration data facilitates the reliability team to […]

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  • 1.2 – Rotor Dynamic Analysis (under construction)

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    My knowledge on rotor dynamic analysis was acquired through interactions with past corporate’s rotating equipment Subject Matter Expert and equipment manufacturer during project execution. i. Predict critical speed of rotor. ii. Predict threshold speeds and vibration frequencies where dynamic instability occurs. iii. […]

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  • 1.1 – Rotodynamic Pumps (under construction)

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    Rotodynamic pump is a generic term to broadly classifies radial-vane, Francis-vane, mixed-flow and axial flow pumps. Very often, rotodynamic pump is often incorrectly interchanged with the word centrifugal pump. Strictly speaking, only radial-vane pumps are classified as centrifugal pumps. – The allowable […]

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