Early failure detection and analysis on today’s complex machine systems could mean cost savings in the long run for companies. Rochester Institute of Technology engineering students built a dynamic ...

Emerson Process Management’s Smart Machinery Health portfolio now provides an integrated protection and prediction solution for critical reciprocating compressors. Common compressor issues can be ...

Reciprocating machines are diesel engines, gas engines, and reciprocating compressors, Fig. 15.1. The alignment procedure for these machines is similar to the reverse-indicator or face-and-rim methods ...

One of the most common ways that industries adapt and advance is to find new uses for an established technology. Many OEMs have used the proven technology of reciprocating compressors for new uses, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — One area in which CO2 is getting an early wave of attention is mobile A/C and transport refrigeration. Researchers from the Thermodynamic Institute in Germany looked at ...

Takao Koga, Kobelco EDTI Compressors Inc. A fuel gas boosting compressor is the “blood pump” for gas turbine power plants because if the fuel gas compressor fails, the gas turbine power plant stops ...

The compressor is the heart of any air conditioning or refrigeration system, so when it starts showing signs of not working correctly, technicians must act quickly in order to find out what is wrong.

Gas compression can be accomplished by many different techniques. Positive displacement compressors include reciprocating compressors and rotary compressors. Reciprocating compressors utilize the ...

Compressors throughout the natural gas industry are started and stopped as required to move gas from producing wells through the entire natural gas system to the gas distribution sector. Reciprocating ...