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• Gas Turbines

  China orders for Rolls-Royce gas turbines

  Rolls-Royce recently got a contract from PetroChina, the largest oil and gas producer in China. The West-East Pipeline Project (WEPP) is the world’s longest natural gas pipeline and this ...

  On April 20, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Using aeroderivatives in LNG production

  The Darwin LNG Facility is the world’s first liquefaction facility to use aeroderivative gas turbines for its refrigeration compressors. The application of aeroderivative engines allows a significantly lower CO2 footprint of 20-30% compared ...

  On April 20, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Compressors

  Differentiating Between Fluid Induced Instability (Oil Whirl and Oil Whip) and a Rub

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  On April 19, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Validating the 7FA

  GE has employed an incremental approach for the 7FA.05 gas turbine, which is the latest evolution of its F class. The gas turbine produces over 180 MW in ...

  On April 4, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Applying Alstom Sequential Combustion to IGCC

  A patent has been awarded to Adnan Eroglu, Jaan Hellat Felix Guethe and Peter Flohr (Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.) for a method to operate a gas turbine with ...

  On April 1, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Compressors

  Shaft Average Centerline and DC Orbit Data Plots

  Metrix SETPOINT Contition Monitoring Group; Minden, NV   Most vibration data plots, including: Timebase, Orbit, Polar, and Bode, present dynamic vibration data.  For seismic transducers, this dynamic data ...

  On March 9, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Using microturbines to burn diluted concentrations of methane

  FlexEnergy’s Powerstation technology, which uses microturbines formerly of Ingersoll-Rand, will allow the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Fort Benning, Ga. base to convert its landfill gas, an unconventional energy source, into ...

  On February 28, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  How reliable are reliability figures?

  How reliable are the Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) figures that are touted by gas turbine OEMs — as proofs of how well their machines are performing?   RAM statistics are ...

  On February 22, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Compressors

  Do you know where your bolts came from?

  I am writing this blog after the Steelers defeated the Jets for the AFC Championship and a place in the 2011 Superbowl. The Steelers have won 6 Superbowls, ...

  On February 4, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Compressors

  Vibration: The pulse of rotating machinery

  Metrix SETPOINT Contition Monitoring Group; Minden, NV   The root cause analysis of vibration problems related to critical turbomachinery is an engineering science based on what is often referred to as the ...

  On February 1, 2011 / By TMI Staff & Contributors