Top three ways to improve pump service life

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02.01.2013 | Bloch, H. P., Hydrocarbon Processing Staff,

Experienced reliability professionals know that even the premier equipment standards used in the HPI occasionally fall short of defining the best, most reliable, or safest available technology.

Keywords: [pumps] [bearings] [maintenance] [lubrication oil] [bearing housing]

Experienced reliability professionals know that even the premier equipment standards used in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) occasionally fall short of defining the best, most reliable, or safest available technology. A widely used industry standard begins by stating: “The purchaser may desire to modify, delete or amplify sections of this standard.”

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DESAI J UTKARSH
02.14.2013

As a part of Mechanical Engineering, the subject is very nice. However to have pump reliability, now a days it requires TRAINED personnel-to operate & maintain is also very much essential.Here in India-Asia, the turn-over rate may create problem and Plants handling SUCH hazardous hydrocarbon can affect in larger way.

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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with “drag and drop” capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.

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