Machinery component maintenance and repair

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors Bloch, Heinz P., 1933- (Author), Geitner, Fred K. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, MA : Gulf Professional Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier, [2019]
EditionFourth edition.
SeriesBloch, Heinz P., 1933- Practical machinery management for process plants ; v. 3.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780128187302
0128187301
9780128187296
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Machinery Component Maintenance and Repair
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • About the authors
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Background to process machinery maintenance programming
  • Chapter 1: Machinery maintenance: An overview
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2: Maintenance organization and control for multiplant corporations
  • Type of operation
  • Manager's role
  • Maintenance
  • Central control system
  • Principal applications areas for the maintenance computer
  • Incentives for computer systems
  • Justification of systems
  • Setting up an effective system
  • Manuals prepared
  • Performance reports
  • Breakdowns reduced
  • Central parts depot
  • Plant engineering
  • Summary
  • Machinery maintenance on the plant level
  • Assignment of qualified personnel
  • Timing and basic definition of critical preturnaround tasks
  • Senior machinery specialist
  • Turbotrain turnaround engineers
  • Mechanical supervisors/planners
  • Specific preparation and planning
  • Safety
  • Planning
  • Spare parts
  • The spare rotor
  • Diagrams
  • Miscellaneous items
  • The factory serviceperson
  • The overhaul
  • Opening the machine
  • Inspection
  • Cleaning
  • Reassembly
  • Documenting what youve done
  • Nonstandard parts
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Machinery foundations and grouting
  • What's an epoxy?
  • Epoxy grouts
  • Proper grout mixing is important
  • Job planning
  • Conventional grouting
  • Concrete characteristics
  • Methods of installing machinery
  • Anchor bolts: Overview
  • Original anchor bolt installations
  • Anchor bolt replacement
  • Outdoor installations
  • Expansion joints
  • Postponement of regrouting is risky
  • Preparation of concrete surfaces prior to grouting
  • Repairing failures between block and mat
  • Grouting skid-mounted equipment
  • Grouting of oil-degraded concrete.
  • Pressure-injection regrouting
  • Shoulder removal method
  • Through-the-case method
  • Pressure grouting sole plates
  • Prefilled equipment baseplates: How to get a superior equipment installation for less money
  • Why be concerned
  • Conventional grouting methods
  • Field installation problems explained
  • Voids and bonding issues
  • Distortion of mounting surfaces
  • Hidden budget busters
  • Pregrouted baseplates
  • Proper surface preparation
  • Void-free grout installation
  • Postcuring of the grout
  • Mounting surfaces
  • Field installation methods for pregrouted baseplates
  • Field leveling
  • Conventional grouting method
  • Hydraulic lift of a pregrouted baseplate
  • Baseplate stress versus anchor bolt torque
  • New field grouting method for pregrouted baseplates
  • Concrete foundation preparation
  • New grout-forming technique
  • Field installation cost comparison
  • Consider prefilled baseplates
  • Appendix 3-A. Detailed checklist for rotating equipment: Horizontal pump baseplate checklist
  • Appendix 3-B. Specification for Portland cement grouting of rotating equipment
  • Appendix 3-C. Detailed checklist for rotating equipment: Baseplate Grouting
  • Appendix 3-D. Specifications for epoxy grouting of rotating equipment
  • Appendix 3-E. Specification and installation of pregrouted pump baseplates
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4: Process machinery piping
  • Fundamentals of piping design criteria
  • Piping design procedure
  • Design considerations
  • Design pressure loads
  • Weight loads
  • Dynamic loads
  • Thermal expansion/contraction effects
  • Effects of support, anchor, and terminal movements
  • The when, who, what, and how of removing spring hanger stops associated with machinery
  • Initial tasks prior to machinery commissioning
  • Final check, immediately prior to machinery operation
  • Flange jointing practices.
  • Primary causes of flange leakage
  • The importance of proper gasket selection
  • Gasket width
  • Gasket thickness
  • Flange types and flange bolt-up
  • Factors affecting gasket performance
  • Spiral wound gaskets manufactured in accordance with American society of mechanical engineers (ASME) B16.20
  • Torque tables
  • Gasket installation
  • Bolting procedures
  • Hydrostatic testing precautions
  • Prestressing bolts for thermal expansion
  • Calculating load requirements
  • General installation and inspection procedure
  • Prior to gasket insertion
  • Controlled torque bolt-up of flanged connections
  • Preparation
  • Equipment
  • Hot bolting and leakage control
  • Hot bolting procedure
  • Using bolt tensioners
  • Using hammer and wrench or torque wrench
  • If hot bolting does not stop leak
  • Torqueing in machinery assemblies
  • Example
  • Background evaluation
  • Recommendations for the installation, fabrication, testing, and cleaning of air, gas or steam piping
  • Pickling procedure for reciprocating compressor suction piping: method I
  • General recommendations
  • Preliminary work
  • Pretreatment
  • Acid treatment
  • Neutralization
  • Passivation
  • Cleaning of large compressor piping: method II
  • Temporary line filters
  • Appendix 4-A. Detailed checklist for rotating equipment: Machinery piping
  • Appendix 4-B. Specifications for cleaning mechanical seal pots and piping for centrifugal pumps
  • Appendix 4-C. Detailed checklist for rotating equipment: Pump piping
  • Reference
  • Part II: Alignment and balancing
  • Chapter 5: Machinery alignment
  • Prealignment requirements
  • Alignment tolerances
  • Choosing an alignment measurement setup
  • Reverse-indicator method
  • Face-and-rim method
  • Face-face-distance method
  • State-of-the-art alignment
  • Checking for bracket sag
  • Bracket sag effect on face measurements
  • Face sag effect-examples.
  • Example 1
  • Example 2
  • Example 3
  • Leveling curved surfaces
  • Jig posts
  • Interpretation and data recording
  • Calculating the corrective movements
  • The graphical procedure for reverse alignment
  • What is reverse alignment?
  • Learning how to graph plot
  • Sag check
  • Making the moves
  • Summary of graphical procedure
  • The ``optimum move´´ alignment method
  • Thermal growth-Twelve ways to correct for it
  • Laser measurements
  • Thermal growth estimation by rules of thumb
  • Alignment choices have consequences
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Balancing of machinery components
  • Definition of terms
  • Purpose of balancing
  • The balancing machine as a measuring tool
  • Causes of unbalance
  • Units of unbalance
  • Types of unbalance
  • Static unbalance
  • Couple unbalance
  • Quasi-static unbalance
  • Dynamic unbalance
  • Motions of unbalanced rotors
  • Effects of unbalance and rotational speed
  • Correlating CG displacement with unbalance
  • Balancing machines
  • Gravity balancing machines
  • Centrifugal balancing machines
  • Soft-bearing balancing machines
  • Hard-bearing balancing machines
  • Measurement of amount and angle of unbalance
  • Plane separation
  • Classification of centrifugal balancing machines
  • Maintenance and production balancing machines
  • Universal balancing machines
  • Semi-automatic balancing machines
  • Fully-automatic balancing machines
  • Establishing a purchase specification
  • Rotor description
  • Supporting the rotor in the balancing machine
  • Means of journal support
  • Rotors with more than two journals
  • Rotors with rolling element bearings
  • Driving the rotor
  • Drive system limitation
  • Weight-speed limitation (Wn2)
  • Determining the right balancing speed
  • Is the rotor ``rigid´´?
  • Flexibility test
  • Direction of rotation
  • End-drive adapters
  • Design considerations.
  • Balancing keyed end-drive adapters
  • Half-key method
  • Balancing arbors
  • Definition
  • Basic design criteria
  • Error analysis
  • Statistical evaluation of errors
  • Balancing the arbor
  • Special design features
  • Biasing an arbor
  • The double compensator
  • Unbalance correction methods
  • Addition of mass
  • Removal of mass
  • Mass centering
  • Testing balancing machines
  • Tests for production machines
  • Basic test concepts
  • Inboard proving rotors for horizontal machines
  • Test masses
  • Test procedures
  • Umar (or traverse) test
  • Unbalance reduction test
  • Balance tolerances
  • Balance quality grades
  • Special conditions to achieve quality grades G1 and G0.4
  • Applying tolerances to single-plane rotors
  • Applying tolerances to two-plane rotors
  • Experimental determination of tolerances
  • Applying tolerances to rotor assembly components
  • Testing a rotor for tolerance compliance
  • Balance errors due to drive elements
  • Balance errors due to rotor support elements
  • Index-balancing procedure
  • Recommended margins between balance and inspection tolerances
  • Computer-aided balancing
  • Features
  • Prompting guides, storage, and retrieval
  • Multiple machine control and programs
  • Field balancing overview
  • Field balancing equipment
  • Field balancing examples
  • First problem: Unbalance vibration in blowers
  • Solution: Field balancing in one plane
  • Second problem: Unbalance vibration in centrifuges
  • Solution: Field balancing in two planes
  • Explanation of schedule and of calculator program
  • Third problem: Unbalance vibration in twisting and stranding machine
  • Solution: Field balancing in several planes
  • The vector diagram
  • Appendix 6-A. Balancing terminology
  • Appendix 6-B. Balancing machine nomenclature
  • Appendix 6-C. Balancing and vibration standards.