A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology (PDF)

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.