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Expanders for oil and gas operations : design, applications, and troubleshooting /
"Expanders for Oil and Gas Operations offers in-depth details on different types of expanders, addressing the background, mechanical design features, design and operating requirements, operational processes, and potential problems for each class of expander. The book also discusses rotor dynami...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2014]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A. About the authors
- B. Preface
- C. Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ccu hot gas expanders
- Historical background
- Process unit descriptions and applications
- Expander applications
- Expander performance
- 3. Dirty gas and particle separation
- Dirty gas
- Particle separation
- Expander erosion
- Ccu expander catalyst deposition
- Ccu expander corrosion
- 4. Ccu expander auxiliary systems
- Expander piping
- Structural design considerations
- Piping pressure/"blow-off" load
- Allowable force and moments
- Flange design
- Fasteners
- Flange gaskets
- Expansion joints
- Lube oil system
- Expander cooling system
- Expander sealing system
- Bearing housing seal system
- Expander start-up steam
- Expander casing and duct drains
- Online expander flow-path cleaning
- Abrasive cleaning system
- Thermal cleaning
- Online blade photography
- Supervisory instrumentation
- Expander alarm and shutdowns
- 5. Common operational problems and failure case studies
- Plugging of critical flow orifice
- Inlet and piping flange failures
- Nose cone failures
- Expander rotor disc failure?corrosion
- Rotor rubbing
- Expander casing drains
- Expander online cleaning
- Catalyst deposition and plugging
- Exhaust diffuser failure
- Expander support: unit vibration
- Air-blower failures
- 6. Nitric acid expanders for chemical applications
- Introduction
- Nitric acid process
- Machinery selection
- Expander selection and design considerations
- Nitric acid expander design considerations
- Expander construction
- Expander component design
- Auxiliary equipment
- Operational considerations
- Maintenance
- Nitric acid expander common operational problems
- 7. Turboexpanders/cryogenic turboexpanders
- Introduction
- Historical background
- Machinery design and configuration
- Process descriptions and applications
- 8. Rotor dynamics
- Introduction
- Introduction to dynamics
- Procedural steps in the analysis
- 9. Bladed disc vibration and reliability
- Brief description of analytical methods
- Vibration behavior of bladed disc system
- Evaluation concepts for blade resonant vibration
- Effect of mistuning of a bladed disc system on vibration response
- Special topics related to reliability of the expander blade
- Reliability evaluation of blade design
- Mathematical expression of work done by mistuned force on a mistuned system
- 10. Damage in material and life analysis
- Behavior of material under static load
- Behavior of material under cyclic loading
- Definition of force
- Damage mechanisms in material
- Estimation of component life
- Life evaluation during creep fatigue interaction
- Linear elastic fracture mechanics
- Failure of cracked components fracture mechanics approach
- Crack growth during thermal cycle
- Creep crack growth
- Cumulative damage
- Evaluation of damage after service
- Summary
- 11. Probabilistic concept and risk assessment
- Brief probabilistic theory applied in the design process
- Probabilistic aspect leading to estimation of likelihood of failure
- Basic probabilistic theory using limit function
- Examples pertaining to expander design
- Estimation of business risk
- Summary
- A. Bibliography
- B. References.