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.
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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)
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)
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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.
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Indispensable for the reliability professional!,
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This review is from: Improving Machinery Reliability (Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants, 1) (v. 1) (Hardcover)
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!
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The most practical text available on the subject,
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This review is from: Improving Machinery Reliability (Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants, 1) (v. 1) (Hardcover)
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.
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Long before machinery specifications can be prepared, the plant designers perform scoping studies encompassing a large number of options. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turnaround scope, modern sealing technology, disc pack couplings, gas seal technology, precision alignment program, critical speed map, eliminating cooling water, grouting effects, dimensional outline drawing, carbon bushings, lost gross margin, pressurized barrier fluid, bid conditioning, coupling unbalance, face temperature rise, scheduled lubrication, seal chamber pressure, critical speed analysis, dosing modules, reliability audits, seal vendor, barrier fluid pressure, improving machinery reliability, modern process plants, sneak conditions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Turbomachinery Symposium, Monte Carlo, Lubrication Services, Lubrication Engineering, Courtesy American Petroleum Institute, International Conference, Courtesy of Prueftechnik, Gulf Publishing Company, Net Income, Preliminary Review, Tax Provision, United States, Courtesy of Safematic, Englewood Cliffs, Evans Associates, Gulf Coast, John Wiley, Mechanical Procedures Manual, Vickers Avenue, Annual Meeting, Annual Total Cost, Chemical Engineering, Cumulative Total Cost, Final Copy New!
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Long before machinery specifications can be prepared, the plant designers perform scoping studies encompassing a large number of options. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turnaround scope, modern sealing technology, disc pack couplings, gas seal technology, precision alignment program, critical speed map, eliminating cooling water, grouting effects, dimensional outline drawing, carbon bushings, lost gross margin, pressurized barrier fluid, bid conditioning, coupling unbalance, face temperature rise, scheduled lubrication, seal chamber pressure, critical speed analysis, dosing modules, reliability audits, seal vendor, barrier fluid pressure, improving machinery reliability, modern process plants, sneak conditions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Turbomachinery Symposium, Monte Carlo, Lubrication Services, Lubrication Engineering, Courtesy American Petroleum Institute, International Conference, Courtesy of Prueftechnik, Gulf Publishing Company, Net Income, Preliminary Review, Tax Provision, United States, Courtesy of Safematic, Englewood Cliffs, Evans Associates, Gulf Coast, John Wiley, Mechanical Procedures Manual, Vickers Avenue, Annual Meeting, Annual Total Cost, Chemical Engineering, Cumulative Total Cost, Final Copy New!
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- Machinery Management by John Deere in Front Matter, and page 432
- Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations by Tyler Hicks on page 311
- Introduction to Machinery Reliability Assessment (Vnr Plant Engineering Series) by Heinz P. Bloch in Front Matter
- Systems Engineering and Analysis (4th Edition) by Benjamin S. Blanchard on page 310
- An Introduction to Machinery Analysis and Monitoring by John S. Mitchell on page 483
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- Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants: Volume 2, Third Edition: Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting by Heinz P. Bloch on 4 pages
- Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension by Heinz P. Bloch on page 403, page 404, and page 406
- Maximizing Machinery Uptime, Volume 5 (Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants) by Heinz P. Bloch on page 26, page 228, and page 323
- Centrifugal Pumps: Design and Application, Second Edition by Val S. Lobanoff on page 492, and page 555
- Major Process Equipment Maintenance and Repair (Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants, 4) (v. 4) by Heinz P. Bloch on page 447, and Back Matter
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