Forsthoffer's Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Optimize plant asset safety and reliability while minimizing operating costs with this invaluable guide to the engineering, operation and maintenance of rotating equipment

Based upon his multi-volume Rotating Equipment Handbooks, Forsthoffer's Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery summarises, expands and updates the content from these previous books in a convenient all-in-one volume. Offering comprehensive technical coverage and insider information on best practices derived from lessons learned in the engineering, operation and maintenance of a wide array of rotating equipment, this new title presents:

A unique "Best Practice" and "Lessons Learned" chapter framework, providing bite-sized, troubleshooting instruction on complex operation and maintenance issues across a wide array of industrial rotating machinery.

Five chapters of completely new material combined with updated material from earlier volumes, making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date handbook for rotary equipment currently available.

Intended for maintenance, engineering, operation and management, Forsthoffer's Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery is a one-stop resource, packed with a lifetime's rotating machinery experience, to help you improve efficiency, safety, reliability and cost.

A unique "Lessons Learned/Best Practices" component opens and acts as a framework for each chapter. Readers not only become familiar with a wide array of industrial rotating machinery; they learn how to operate and maintain it by adopting the troubleshooting perspective that the book provides
Five chapters of completely new material combined with totally updated material from earlier volumes of Forsthoffer's Handbook make this the most comprehensive and up-to-date handbook for rotary equipment currently
Users of Forsthoffer's multi-volume Rotating Equipment Handbooks now have an updated set, with expanded coverage, all in one convenient, reasonably-priced volume

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-06-01
Mått216 x 276 x 44 mm
Vikt1 840 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor672
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9780080966762

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President of Forsthoffer and Associates USA. Bill has authored 6 successful books at Elsevier, including Machinery Best Practices in 2011. He has 60 years’ experience in the Rotating Machinery Industry as a rotating machinery designer, project leader and trouble-shooter and has visited over 500 Plants Globally. Bill has had the opportunity to be involved with all types of rotating machinery: pumps, compressors, gears, mixers, extruders, melt pumps, steam turbines gas turbines, centrifuges, spin dryers and their associated components (Rotors, Bearings, Seals and Support Systems). His involvement has consisted of total component and system centrifugal compressor design for De Laval (Siemens), specification writing for ExxonMobil, selection of all types of rotating equipment for all major vendors, design audits, shop testing, start-up and troubleshooting for all major gas processing chemical and refining companies world-wide.

Chapter 1 Project Best PracticesChapter 2 Pump Best PracticesChapter 3 Compressor Best PracticesChapter 4 Gear and Coupling Best PracticesChapter 5 Steam Turbine Best PracticesChapter 6 Gas Turbine Best PracticesChapter 7 Lube, Seal & Control Oil System Best PracticesChapter 8 Pump Mechanical Seal Flush Best PracticesChapter 9 Dry Gas Seal Best PracticesChapter 10 The Post Shipment Phase: Installation, Pre- Commissioning, Commissioning & Start-up Best PracticesChapter 11 Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Best PracticesChapter 12 Implementation and Communication Best Practices

"Plant engineers, operators, millwrights, and anyone associated with the safe and reliable operation of rotating machinery in a plant will find this book to be a very useful reference. The listing of best practices, lessons learned, and supporting materials obtained by the author over a 48-year time span during which he worked as a designer, end user, and consultant in the rotating machinery industry will be invaluable to those mentioned above." --IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, March/April