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Meet the Panel: Lifecycle Optimization for Centrifugal Air Compressors
Key Takeaways
- Learn why the purchase price of a centrifugal compressor is only the opening chapter of its total lifecycle cost.
- Discover the most expensive lessons three rotating equipment experts have learned the hard way.
Moderator Rainer Kurz sits down with FS-Elliott's Shady Saeed, rotating equipment specialist, ADNOC, Wael Al Mandarawi, and Saudi Aramco's Omar Al-Essa to share the costliest lessons they've learned keeping centrifugal compressors running.
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This Turbomachinery International Peer Exchange® opens with moderator Rainer Kurz framing the conversation around centrifugal compressor lifecycle cost: the purchase price, he notes, is just the opening chapter, while what happens after installation determines whether an asset delivers value for five, fifteen, or thirty years.
Kurz then introduces the panel: Shady Saeed, Director of Aftermarket at FS-Elliott; Wael Al Mandarawi, a rotating equipment specialist, ADNOC, with more than 30 years of experience; and Omar Al-Essa, Producing Inspection Manager at Saudi Aramco, and asks each to share the most expensive lesson they've seen a plant learn the hard way. Their answers point to a common thread: treating symptoms instead of root causes, letting small degradations continue under production pressure, and running critical equipment to failure simply because it's still running.
Plant managers, reliability engineers, and rotating equipment engineers will come away with a clear framing for the series: why centrifugal compressor lifecycle decisions are rarely about the equipment alone.
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