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  Compressors

  Engineered residual stresses can be used to lessen turbomachinery failures

  When failures occur in turbomachinery, they typically result from one or more mechanisms. This may include fatigue, environmentally assisted or stress corrosion cracking, creep rupture, erosion and foreign ...

  On June 2, 2020 / By James Pineault
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  MYTH: DATA CORRECTION: ALL I NEED ARE THE CURVES

  Testing turbomachinery requires corrections between actual test conditions and those originally specified as the acceptance, operating or design conditions. The factory or field test will usually be performed ...

  On April 9, 2020 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  HOW TO USE TURBOEXPANDERS IN ENERGY RECOVERY

  NEW DESIGN FOR NATURAL GAS PRESSURE LETDOWN STATIONS BY FREDDIE SARHAN Caption: Cutaway model of the Calnetix FreeSpin Inline Turboexpander Natural gas from producing wells and storage facilities ...

  On February 2, 2020 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  COMPRESSOR FAILURES

  ROOT CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS FOR GE GAS TURBINE COMPRESSOR FAILURES BY RODGER ANDERSON & ROBERT TRAVER   Most gas turbines have axial flow compressors with multiple rows of ...

  On December 7, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  OUR EVOLVING GRID

  Red and blue may be the dominant colors on a political map of the U.S. But green and light blue are the only two shades that matter in ...

  On October 22, 2019 / By Drew Robb
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  ATPS INDUSTRY SUMMIT

  BIG DATA, DIGITALIZATION AND THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS BY KALYAN KALYANARAMAN The biennial Asia Turbomachinery & Pump Symposium (ATPS) grew out of Texas A&M Turbomachinery Laboratories’ (TAMU) ...

  On October 16, 2019 / By Kalyan
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  Turbo Expo 2019

  ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE MANUFACTURING, CLEAN POWER, LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS, WET GAS COMPRESSION AND SPACE TRAVEL DREW ROBB The 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Turbo Expo took ...

  On October 6, 2019 / By Drew Robb
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  MYTH: YOU CAN OPERATE IN SURGE

  We have previously written about surge in our Myth Buster column. It is a violent physical phenomenon that occurs in centrifugal compressor systems with the potential to cause ...

  On September 27, 2019 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  ROTATING MACHINERY MAINTENANCE

  Rotating equipment lies at the heart of most oil & gas processes. Wells, pipelines, refineries and liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants rely on turbomachinery to perform daily operations ...

  On September 27, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  COMPRESSOR CHOKE

  THE CATASTROPHIC EFFECT OF CHOKE IN AXIAL COMPRESSORS AND PREVENTION MEASURES BY LEYDEN LOPEZ Axial compressors are used in large-scale processes where a significant amount of gas is ...

  On August 27, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors