Fluid machinery is essential for the movement of oil and gas in the extraction and hydrocarbon processing industries. Improvements and innovations in fluid machinery result in improved reliability, and increased efficiency, as well as totally new approaches to business itself.
These latest IMechE conference transactions showcase the latest in technology and provide an excellent forum for sharing valuable experiences.
Topics covered in this indispensable edition include:
Fluid Machinery Design
Turbo-process Machinery
Developments in Pumps and Drivers
Multiphase Pressure Boosting
Safety and Environment
Operations and Maintenance
Retrofits and Upgrades
This volume will be of great interest to engineering managers, chief engineers, academics, and all those involved in the rotating equipment companies.
Fluid Machinery Design Optimization of screw compressor design N Stosic, I K Smith, and A Kovacevic 3 CFD modelling and design optimization of a gerotor pump F Iudicello 15 Industrial centrifugal compressors - physical background and practice of modern gas dynamic design Y Galerkin, V Mitrofanov, K Danilov, and E Popova 27 Turbo-process Machinery Exducer turbines, the optimized solution for liquefied gas expanders H E Hylton and E H Kimmel 39 Design of large-scale air separation turbomachinery units H Voss 53 The MS 5002E - a new two-shaft, high-efficiency, heavy-duty, gas turbine for Oil & Gas applications L Aurelio, L Tognarelli, and P Pecchi 65 Developments in Pumps and Drivers Ultra-high pressure seawater injection pumps B Germaine 79 Ultra-high pressure water injection pumping design N Muntz and G Stead 89 Multiphase Pressure Boosting Field operation and performance of a downhole hydraulic submersible multiphase pump W G Harden 105 Wet gas compression with twin-screw multiphase pumps D Muller-Link, J-U Brandt, M Reichwage, and G Schroder 117 Safety and Environment Development of machinery and rotating equipment integrity - safety inspection guidance notes J J Lewis and B Stark 129 Improving safety at gas turbine plant - preparation for ATEX I R Cowan, S Gilham, E S Kaufman, R L Brooks, and L M Danner 141 MagMax[trademark] - the development of a revolutionary sealless pump K Black 153 Application of a diagnostic system for mechanical seals C Schmidthals 177 Operations and Maintenance Unstable operation of a synthesis gas compressor J P M Smeulers and Ir O van Wolfswinkel 189 Maintenance strategy development for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities N Arthur 197 Operational difficulties on an ethylene plant cracked gas compressor train A D R Chapman, G M Corrigan, and B R Gamblin 209 Water injection system to maintain the performance of cracked gas compressors in ethylene plants T Loscha, H Magdalinski, and M Grafe 221 Retrofits and Upgrades Major rerate of a process air compressor during a plant shutdown G Kerr and F G Cataldo 233 Technical specification of turbomachinery rerates S A Rodgers, C J Robinson, and J O'Connor 243 Uprate applied to turbomachinery in olefin plants from MAN Turbo's point of view G Hinrichs 255 Radical upgrading of ethylene plant turbo-machinery control and protective systems N H Wells 263 Additional Papers Design consideration for helico-axial multiphase pumps M Cordner and J de Salis 277 Enhanced mechanical face seal performance using modified face surface topography L Young, E Roosch, and R Hill 293 Authors' Index 305
PEP - Professional Engineering Publishers - is the author of Fluid Machinery for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry: IMechE Conference Transactions 2003-1, published by Wiley.
