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• Compressors

  Causes of axial compressor fouling

  Experience has shown that axial compressors will foul in most operating environments; be they industrial, rural or marine. There are a wide range of industrial pollutants and a ...

  On May 26, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Auxiliaries

  Additive Manufacturing: An Oil and Gas perspective

  Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing refer to a manufacturing process that creates a three-dimensional object through a series of “addition-material” operations, following the dimensions of a digital 3D ...

  On May 22, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Auxiliaries

  Fouling in heat exchangers

  Fouling is commonly known as the accumulation of unwanted material on surfaces as, for example, tubes and pipes. Fouling phenomena are common in different industrial environments, ranging from ...

  On May 17, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Causes of water hammer in pipelines

  Water hammer is a term used to describe fluid transients, when banging sounds are sometimes heard as check valves slam shut or piping strikes adjacent structures. The terms ...

  On May 15, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
• Gas Turbines

  Anti-icing systems for gas turbines

  Gas turbines that are installed in areas where icing conditions could exist shall be equipped with an anti-icing system. In general, ambient temperature dropping below 4ºC (39 ºF) ...

  On May 10, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Gas Turbines

  Siemens to spin off its power and gas division, focus on digital and infrastructure

  Siemens is planning to spin off its power and gas turbine division into a new company with a business volume of €30 billion and over 80,000 employees. Siemens ...

  On May 8, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Energy News

  In April, renewables projected to beat coal in US power generation

  This month, for the first time ever, the renewable energy sector (hydro, biomass, wind, solar and geothermal) is projected to generate more electricity than coal-fired plants, which totals ...

  On April 30, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Essential facts about online water washing

  Spraying cleaning fluid into a flowing air stream is a viable means of cleaning a compressor blade. Each of the fluids was able to clean the test blade ...

  On April 29, 2019 / By Klaus Brun & Rainer Kurz
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  Using predictive analytics in anomaly detection and fault recognition

  Predictive analysis is an advanced branch of data engineering which generally predicts some occurrence or probability. The process involves an analysis of historic data and based on that ...

  On April 27, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Component and cartridge seals

  A component seal is a seal design where many of the components are provided as loose, individual parts. These seals are often supplied by the seal OEM with ...

  On April 25, 2019 / By TMI Staff & Contributors