Compressors and Pumps: Selection, Sizing, Applications, Operation, Diagnostic Testing and Troubleshooting
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Compressors and Pumps: Selection, Sizing, Applications, Operation, Diagnostic Testing and Troubleshooting Course
Introduction:
Since pumps and compressors are typically essential machinery in any industrial process, it is imperative that these devices receive the best possible maintenance.The goal of this course is to give participants a thorough understanding of how to apply a combined predictive and preventive maintenance strategy to achieve maximum reliability and the best possible comprehension of any potential deterioration.
Course Objectives:
· The program assumes familiarity with the design and construction of pumps and compressors. From this starting point, it adopts an analytical approach to understanding the failure of all types of pumps and compressors.
· From a component-by-component perspective, the program investigates the root causes of failure and relates these to operating conditions and process parameters. Design, installation, lubrication and wear-related failure mechanisms are identified and a detailed understanding of the troubleshooting and diagnostic methods needed to detect and identify these are developed.
· The program provides participants with the knowledge needed to be effective in the inspection, monitoring, and diagnostics of pumps and compressors, with emphasis placed upon the importance of a combined condition monitoring and strip-down inspection approach to maintenance.
Who Should Attend?
Engineers, supervisory and technical staff involved in the monitoring, predictive maintenance and diagnostics of pumps and compressors.
Course Outlines:
- Friction, lubrication and wear mechanisms.
- Adhesive wear, abrasive wear, fatigue and fretting
- Machinery life cycles
- Mechanical issues, balancing, and alignment
- Statistical reliability analysis
- Reliability models
- The root cause of, symptoms and detection mechanisms for imbalance
- Looseness
- Misalignment
- Gear problems
- Bearing problems
- Cavitation, causes, and prevention
- Anti-friction bearings: types, lifetime, mounting, applications, related problems
- Plain and pad bearings, thrust bearings: operation, maintenance, incidents
- Mechanical seals, types, operation, related problems
- Other seals for positive displacement pumps and reciprocating compressors
- Performing a balance
- Vibration monitoring
- Overall and spectral measurements
- Vibration limits
- Introduction to spectrum analysis
- Lubricant monitoring
- Shape, size, amount, the chemical composition of debris
- Analytical techniques
- The role of condition monitoring in pump and compressor maintenance Diagnostic methods
- Capabilities and limitations of condition monitoring, and the need for a combined approach
- The importance of plant inspection
- Measurement devices, and what to monitor and where