Improving Machinery Reliability

by Heinz P. Bloch

Overview

This totally revised, updated and expanded edition provides proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance costs, and achieve optimum machinery reliability. This essential text clearly describes the reliability improvement and failure avoidance steps practiced by best-of-class process plants in the U.S. and Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080508542
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/18/1998
Series:	ISSN , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	680
File size:	38 MB
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About the Author

A consulting engineer residing in Montgomery, texas, Heinz. P. Bloch has held machinery-oriented staff and line positions with Exxon affiliates in the United States, Italy, Spain, England, The Netherlands, and Japan. His career spanned several decades prior to his 1986 retirement as Exxon Chemical's regional machinery specialist for the USA. Since his retirement from Exxon, he has been in demand throughout the world as a consultant and trainer in the areas of failure avoidance, root cause failure identification, and reliability improvement. Mr. Bloch is the author/co-author of thirteen books and over 200 other publications on subjects related to machinery reliability and failure avoidance. He is the Reliability and Equipment Editor of Hydrocarbon Processing magazine and has served as chair of the annual conference program for Hydrocarbon Processing's Process Plant Reliability Conference for a number of years.

Table of Contents

Requirements specifications. Vendor selection and bid conditioning. Machinery reliability audits and reviews. Maintenance and benchmarking reliability. Life cycle cost studies. Extending motor life in the process plant environment. Equipment reliability improvement through reduced pipe stress. Spare parts and their effect on service factor. Startup responsibilities. Maintenance for continued reliability. Maintenance cost reduction. Lubrication and reliability. Providing safety and reliability through modern sealing technology. Appendix. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Sets out proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance cots, and achieve optimum machinery reliability in the petroleum processing industry. Draws from the Best Practices in the US and Europe, and compares them with Good and Better Practices. Earlier editions were published in 1982 and 1988; the new material here includes availability and reliability statistics for major machinery, benchmarking data, guidance for relevant life-cycle cost studies, electric motor reliability, modern sealing technology, and synthetic lubricants. Well illustrated with line drawings and graphs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

The book begins with advice on writing a proper equipment specification, stressing the importance of getting and keeping complete installation, operation, and maintenance instructions. (Electrical Apparatus)

Sets out proven techniques and procedures that extend machinery life, reduce maintenance costs, and achieve optimum machinery reliability in the petroleum processing industry. (SciTech Book News)

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