Shown above is cover of:
Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants: Volume 1, Third Edition : Improving Machinery Reliability
This book is just one of several titles in the category Machinery. More titles like this book may be found here.
by: Heinz P. Bloch
Topics include: modern sealing technology, turnaround scope, precision alignment program, secondary sealing device, pack couplings, eliminating cooling water, critical speed map, carbon bushings, dosing modules, improving machinery reliability, thermal cushion, face temperature rise, scheduled lubrication, seal vendor, barrier fluid pressure, seal chamber pressure, sneak conditions, reliability audits, modern process plants, stationary seal face, coupling unbalance, sneak analysis, pedestal stiffnesses, bearing housing seals, electric motor bearings
CLICK HERE for more information and price
This totally revised 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. The book deals extensively with best practices hardware, work process, specification and procurement procedures implemented by the most profitable process plants.
Reviews:
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)
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!