Large centrifugal impeller compressors are commonplace throughout the petrochemical sector, where they usually operate on a continuous duty basis. When a scheduled maintenance task at a refinery in ...

Compressor hard-start devices are a luxury item for service technicians to use in rectifying a myriad of compressor start problems. It is true that the majority of hard-start device applications ...

22 September 2016 JEDDAH -- Siemens has manufactured the largest geared compressor rotor in the world, and testing conducted at its facility in Duisburg, Germany. The first-stage impeller has a ...

Why does the rapid cycling of a compressor on and off cause it to fail? Rapid cycling can cause a compressor to fail in several different ways. Perhaps one lesser known cause is worn bearings due to ...