A Complete overview of theory, selection, design, operation, and maintenance This text offers a thorough overview of the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, troubleshooting, and maintenance of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors. The author examines a wide spectrum of compressors used in heavy process industries, with an emphasis on improving reliability and avoiding failure. Readers learn both the theory underlying compressors as well as the myriad day-to-day practical issues and challenges that chemical engineers and plant operation personnel must address. The text features: Latest design and manufacturing details of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors Examination of the full range of machines available for the heavy process industries Thorough presentation of the arrangements, material composition, and basic laws governing the design of all important process gas compressors Guidance on selecting optimum compressor configurations, controls, components, and auxiliaries to maximize reliability Monitoring and performance analysis for optimal machinery condition Systematic methods to avoid failure through the application of field-tested reliability enhancement concepts Fluid instability and externally pressurized bearings Reliability-driven asset management strategies for compressors Upstream separator and filter issues The text's structure is carefully designed to build knowledge and skills by starting with key principles and then moving to more advanced material. Hundreds of photos depicting various types of compressors, components, and processes are provided throughout. Compressors often represent a multi-million dollar investment for such applications as petrochemical processing and refining, refrigeration, pipeline transport, and turbochargers and superchargers for internal combustion engines. This text enables the broad range of engineers and plant managers who work with these compressors to make the most of the investment by leading them to the best decisions for selecting, operating, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting.

This straightforward guide to compressors seeks to unveil a lot of myths surrounding compressors. In this book, we will be looking at most types of compressors, including the centrifugal compressors, the air compressors, and of course the most troublesome of all compressors, the reciprocating compressors. Having a compressor with minimal operating problems does not only depend on the selection of the right type and size for your job. Detailed specifications of all auxiliary equipment and operating conditions, as well as keeping constant vigilance over the engineering and installation is imperative. The Simple Guide will explain in a simple yet definitive manner which compressor type is best used for which job and what it can produce.

A step-by-step guide to rebuilding, restoring, and modifying the famous Mopar 'Six-Pack' engines that appeared in all of Chrysler's muscle cars from 1969 through 1971, as well as the late- model small-blocks and crate performance motors currently offered by Chrysler.

'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Auto Repair Illustrated' covers everything readers need to know about their automobiles, from the tires up. Tailor-made for true novices, it shows them how to make some of the most basic repairs themselves, and teaches them enough to feel confident that they'll never be taken for a ride by a mechanic again. More than 300 easy-to-understand illustrations and a 50-page self-diagnosis guide organized for quick identification of what's wrong. New- and used-car warranty information. Step-by-step illustrated instructions on how to conduct routine maintenance. An overview of how each system (steering and suspension, cooling, electrical) works.

The second edition of a bestseller, this comprehensive reference provides the fundamental information required to understand both the operation and proper application of all types of gas turbines. The completely updated second edition adds a new section on use of inlet cooling for power augmentation and NOx control. It explores the full spectrum of gas turbines hardware, typical application scenarios, and operating parameters, controls, inlet treatments, inspection, trouble-shooting, and more. The author discusses strategies that can help readers avoid problems before they occur and provides tips that enable diagnosis of problems in their early stages and analysis of failures to prevent their recurrence.

This book is written as a companion to my book on Gas Engines, (ISBN: 978-1-7345214-0-5). However it can also serve as a stand-alone text. There is nothing magical about reciprocating compressors, how they work or about maintaining them, but they do command respect since they are often compressing highly explosive or toxic gases. As do most authors of text books I will begin with theory. To know how something works is a prerequisite to knowing how to fix it. Many people consider theory a dull topic, but it goes hand in hand with operation and maintenance. So I will begin this book with theory and connect all of the systems in between. Some of the images used herein are sourced from various gas engine/compressor manufacturers including Cooper-Bessemer, Dresser-Clark, Worthington, and Ingersoll-Rand. I took most of the actual photographs while employed by an O.E.M. for over thirty-seven years. While a solid knowledge of compressor theory is critical to understanding how a compressor works, I cannot teach theory without the reader being familiar with the basic Gas Laws and the basic components. Each one of the components and systems illustrated here will be examined in detail by the end of the book. But for now, the basic parts are described very briefly in the introduction. Study the drawing and fix in your mind the names and locations of these major components. Reciprocating Compressors of every size and make are comparable in design and the parts similarly named. Where there are significant differences they will be pointed out.The first time specialized words or terms are used they will be underlined and in this font. Their definitions will be found in a glossary at the back of the book. The numbers of personnel qualified to operate and repair these compressors is facing a shortfall due the retirement of an aging workforce. This has created a need for people in the oil and Gas industry who are formally educated in the maintenance of this equipment. This book provides a good introduction for those seeking employment in the industry.

Written by one of the field's most well known experts, the Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook has long been the standard for engineers involved in the design, selection, maintenance and operation of gas turbines. With far reaching, comprehensive coverage across a range of topics from design specifications to maintenance troubleshooting, this one-stop resource provides newcomers to the industry with all the essentials to learn and fill knowledge gaps, and established practicing gas turbine engineers with a reliable go-to reference. This new edition brings the Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook right up to date with new legislation and emerging topics to help the next generation of gas turbine professionals understand the underlying principles of gas turbine operation, the economic considerations and implications of operating these machines, and how they fit in with alternative methods of power generation. - The most comprehensive one-stop source of information on industrial gas turbines, with vital background, maintenance information, legislative details and calculations combined in an essential all-in-one reference - Written by an industry-leading consultant and trainer and suitable for use as a training companion or a reliable dip-in guide - Includes hard-won information from industry experts in the form of case histories that offer practical trouble-shooting guidance and solutions