- 3:35 PM
39a

Rotating Machinery - Equipment Energy & Reliability Enhancements (Roundtable Session)

Gampa Bhat, ExxonMobil Chemical Company, 4500 Bayway Dr., Baytown, TX 77520-9728, Alan S. Pyle, Rotating Equipment Engineering, Shell Global Solutions, 3333 Highway 6 South, Houston, TX 77251-1380, and Charlie Rutan, Lyondell Chemical Company, Chocolate Bayou Chemical Complex, P.O. Box 29117, Alvin, TX 77512.

This session will begin with tutorial sessions covering Compressor Surge and Basic Care of Machinery, followed by a roundtable discussion. Topics of discussion at this roundtable can include but not be limited to the following topics:

* Equipment performance monitoring and trending

* Process impacts on equipment reliability

* Dry gas seals and low leakage interstage seals

* Turboexpanders with magnetic bearings for cold box performance enhancement

* Leading edge groove/direct lubricated bearings

* High speed balancing of rotors

* Proactive equipment maintenance strategies

* Enhanced efficiency compressor impeller and turbine blading

* Impeller blade coatings

* Equipment protection monitoring

* Longer times between turnarounds- operators not experienced/trained for startups

* Length of turnaround set before scope of work known


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