Books in the Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants series

This volume sets out proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance cots, and achieve optimum machinery reliability in the petroleum processing industry. It draws from the Best Practices in the US and Europe, and compares them with Good and Better Practices.

This updated edition describes preventive and predictive maintenance for major process units, such as vertical, horizontal, reciprocating and liquid-ring vacuum pumps, fans and blowers, compressors, turboexpanders and turbines.

Explores reliability assessment techniques such as Failure Mode, Effect Analysis, and Fault Tree Analysis of commonly encountered rotating machinery. This text provides the tools to drastically improve machinery productivity and performance. It is a reference for maximizing the uptime of process equipment.