Surface Production Operations: Volume IV: Pumps and Compressors
Surface Production Operations: Volume IV: Pumps and Compressors

Author: Maurice Stewart

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13: 0128099224

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For over thirty years, the Surface Production Operations Series has taken the guess work out of the design, selection, installation, operation, testing, and troubleshooting of surface production equipment. The fourth volume in this series, Pumps and Compressors is directed to both entry-level personnel and practicing professionals looking for an up-to-date reference book on managing, evaluating, sizing, selecting, installing, operating and maintaining pump and compressor systems. Packed with examples drawn from years of design and field experience, this reference features many charts, tables, equations, diagrams, and photographs to illustrate the basic applications including pump hydraulics, centrifugal and reciprocating compressor applications, compressor performance maps, pump performance curves, pump and compressor testing and installation, and many more critical topics. Packed with practical solutions Surface Production Operations: Pumps and Compressors delivers an essential design and specification reference for today's engineers. - Covers application and performance considerations for all types of pumps and compressors - Delivers hands-on manual for applying mechanical and physical principles to select and design pump and compressor systems, supported by many tables and diagrams - Gives expert advice on how to apply design codes and standards such as API 610, API 674, ANSI B78.1, API 617, API 11P, API RP 14C and the Hydraulic Institute

Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories
Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories

Author: Seid Mahdi Jafari

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing

Published: 2022-08-26

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0128197056

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Transporting Operations of Food Materials within Food Factories, a volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for storage and transportation of food materials within food production factories. Divided into four sections, Receiving and storage facilities, Liquid food transportation, Solid and semi- solid transportation and General material handling machines in food plants, all sections emphasize basic content relating to experimental, theoretical, computational and/or applications of food engineering principles and relevant processing equipment. Written by experts in the field of food engineering in a simple and dynamic way, the book targets all who are engaged in worldwide food processing operations, giving readers comprehensive knowledge and an understanding of different transporting facilities and equipments. - Thoroughly explores alternatives in food processing through innovative transporting operations - Brings novel applications of pumping and conveying operations in food industries - Covers how to improve the quality and safety of food products with good transporting operations

Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook
Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook

Author: M.J. Kaiser

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2022-09-02

Total Pages: 1222

ISBN-13: 0128227893

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Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook: A Manual of Quick, Accurate Solutions to Everyday Pipeline Engineering Problems, Ninth Edition, the latest release in the series, serves as the "go-to" source for all pipeline engineering answers. Updated with new data, graphs and chapters devoted to economics and the environment, this new edition delivers on new topics, including emissions, decommissioning, cost curves, and more while still maintaining the quick answer standard display of content and data that engineers have utilized throughout their careers. Glossaries are added per chapter for better learning tactics, along with additional storage tank and LNG fundamentals. This book continues to be the high-quality, classic reference to help pipeline engineers solve their day-to-day problems. - Contains new chapters that highlight costs, safety and environmental topics, including discussions on emissions - Helps readers learn terminology, with updated glossaries in every chapter - Includes renovated graphs and data tables throughout

Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks
Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks

Author: Maurice Stewart

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2021-07-22

Total Pages: 1114

ISBN-13: 012803744X

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Covering both upstream and downstream oil and gas facilities, Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks delivers a must-have reference guide to maximize efficiency, increase performance, prevent failures, and reduce costs. Every engineer and equipment manager in oil and gas must have complete knowledge of the systems and equipment involved for each project and facility, especially the checklist to keep up with maintenance and inspection--a topic just as critical as design and performance. Taking the guesswork out of searching through a variety of generalized standards and codes, Surface Production Operations: Volume 5: Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, and Aboveground Storage Tanks furnishes all the critical regulatory information needed for oil and gas specific projects, saving time and money on maintaining the lifecycle of mechanical integrity of the oil and gas facility. Including troubleshooting techniques, calculations with examples, and several significant illustrations, this critical volume within the Surface Production Operations series is crucial on every oil and gas engineer's bookshelf to solve day-to-day problems with common sense solutions. - Provides practical checklists and case studies for selection, installation, and maintenance on pressure vessels, heat transfer equipment, and storage tanks for all types of oil and gas facilities - Explains restoration techniques with detailed inspection and testing procedures, ensuring the equipment is revitalized to maximum life extension - Supplies comprehensive coverage on oil and gas specific American and European standards, codes and recommended practices, saving the engineer time searching for various publications

Surface Production Operations: Volume III: Facility Piping and Pipeline Systems
Surface Production Operations: Volume III: Facility Piping and Pipeline Systems

Author: Maurice Stewart

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 1124

ISBN-13: 0080964214

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Surface Production Operations: Facility Piping and Pipeline Systems, Volume III is a hands-on manual for applying mechanical and physical principles to all phases of facility piping and pipeline system design, construction, and operation. For over twenty years this now classic series has taken the guesswork out of the design, selection, specification, installation, operation, testing, and trouble-shooting of surface production equipment. The third volume presents readers with a "hands-on" manual for applying mechanical and physical principles to all phases of facility piping and pipeline system design, construction, and operation. Packed with charts, tables, and diagrams, this authoritative book provides practicing engineer and senior field personnel with a quick but rigorous exposition of piping and pipeline theory, fundamentals, and application. Included is expert advice for determining phase states and their impact on the operating conditions of facility piping and pipeline systems; determining pressure drop and wall thickness; and optimizing line size for gas, liquid, and two-phase lines. Also included are a guide to applying international design codes and standards, and guidance on how to select the appropriate ANSI/API pressure-temperature ratings for pipe flanges, valves, and fittings. - Covers new and existing piping systems including concepts for expansion, supports, manifolds, pigging, and insulation requirements - Presents design principles for a pipeline pigging system - Teaches how to detect, monitor, and control pipeline corrosion - Reviews onshore and offshore safety and environmental practices - Discusses how to evaluate mechanical integrity

Troubleshooting Centrifugal Pumps and their systems
Troubleshooting Centrifugal Pumps and their systems

Author: Ron Palgrave

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2003-12-02

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0080519695

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This book is intended for those new to the use and abuse of centrifugal pumps. It is also for those whose involvement with pumps is so occasional, that they need a reminder of the basics.

Handbook of Electrical Engineering
Handbook of Electrical Engineering

Author: Alan L. Sheldrake

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 650

ISBN-13: 0470864788

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A practical treatment of power system design within the oil, gas, petrochemical and offshore industries. These have significantly different characteristics to large-scale power generation and long distance public utility industries. Developed from a series of lectures on electrical power systems given to oil company staff and university students, Sheldrake's work provides a careful balance between sufficient mathematical theory and comprehensive practical application knowledge. Features of the text include: Comprehensive handbook detailing the application of electrical engineering to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries Practical guidance to the electrical systems equipment used on off-shore production platforms, drilling rigs, pipelines, refineries and chemical plants Summaries of the necessary theories behind the design together with practical guidance on selecting the correct electrical equipment and systems required Presents numerous 'rule of thumb' examples enabling quick and accurate estimates to be made Provides worked examples to demonstrate the topic with practical parameters and data Each chapter contains initial revision and reference sections prior to concentrating on the practical aspects of power engineering including the use of computer modelling Offers numerous references to other texts, published papers and international standards for guidance and as sources of further reading material Presents over 35 years of experience in one self-contained reference Comprehensive appendices include lists of abbreviations in common use, relevant international standards and conversion factors for units of measure An essential reference for electrical engineering designers, operations and maintenance engineers and technicians.

Pump User's Handbook
Pump User's Handbook

Author: Heinz P. Bloch

Publisher: The Fairmont Press, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0881734535

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Simply put, this book explains what exactly needs to be done if a facility wants to progress from being a one, two or three year pump MTBF plant, and wishes to join the leading money-making facilities that today achieve a demonstrated pump MTBF of 8.6 years.