Second edition
by Heinz P. Bloch
A Complete overview of theory, selection, design, operation, and maintenance, Practical Guide to Compressor Technology offers a thorough overview of the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, troubleshooting, and maintenance of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors.
Practical Guide to Compressor Technology 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 day-to-day practical issues and challenges that chemical engineers and plant operation personnel must address.
Practical Guide to Compressor Technology 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
Contents
Positive Displacement Compressor Technology
- Theory
- Reciprocating Process Compressor Design Overview
- Reciprocating Compressor Performance Considerations
- Labyrinth Piston Compressors
- Hyper Compressors
- Metal Diaphragm Compressors
- Lobe-Type and Sliding Vane Compressors
- Liquid Ring Compressors
- Rotary Screw Compressors and Filter-Separators
- Reciprocating Compressor Performance and Sizing Fundamentals
Dynamic Compresor Technology
- Simplified Equations for Determining Performance of Dynamic Compressors
- Design Considerations and Manufacturing Techniques
- Dry Gas Seal and Magnetic Bearing Systems
- Couplings, Torque Transmission, and Torque Sensing
- Lubrication, Sealing, and Control Oil Systems for Turbomachinery
- Compressor Control
- The Head-Flow Curve Shape of Centrifugal Compressors
- Applying Multiple Inlet Compressors
- Predicting Compressor Performance at New Conditions
Appendices
- Properties of Common Gases
- Shortcut Calculations and Graphical Compressor
Selection Procedures
Index
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