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  1. bkarim55

    Centrifugal Compressor life expectancy?

    Dear Johnny; Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your experience… The centrifugal compressors I’m talking about are used to compress Natural Gas. Some of them are installed on reinjection station to pressurize the field and enhance oil recovery and some others are used on...
  2. bkarim55

    Compressor High Vibration

    Hi dear GAL02; Did you find out what was leading your abnormal vibrations? Regards Karim
  3. bkarim55

    Centrifugal Compressor life expectancy?

    Dear All ; Gas and Steam turbines designed to Oil & Gas Applications are commonly used to drive CCs (Centrifugal Compressors). My question is about life expectancy of these CCs. I would like to know your experience and how much time do you take to overhaul your CCs ? and what is the real MTBM...
  4. bkarim55

    IR EPE450 2 Stages screw compressor Repair Manual

    Dear georgeverghes; Local IR man will be here next week. I got a very experimented mechanical team on rotating equipments (pumps, compressors, gas turbines, etc..) but I never touched a screw compressor. I would like to make bearings remplacement of the 3rd screw compresseur as they haven't...
  5. bkarim55

    IR EPE450 2 Stages screw compressor Repair Manual

    Hi Dears; I'm looking for the workshop or repair manual of the IngersollRand EPE450-2S. If someone kindly could send it to me [blush]?!! We lost 2 heavy Air compressors in very short time (one month) and I have no idea about what happened?!.. I'm an oilfield plant mechanical and the Air...
  6. bkarim55

    High unbalance rotor but very low machine vibration! Why ?

    Dear All, The talk is about GE HDGT (Heavy Duty Gas Turbine) double shaft driving Centrifugal Compressors. Right now a MI (Major Inspection) is ongoing on this machine. Because this machine is running over 90.000 fired hours and following OEM Instructions, the HP rotor has been sent to the...
  7. bkarim55

    Loss of Excitation on 10 MW Turbo Power Generator: Generator Main Breaker opened due to issue on ex

    Dear Mikel; Thanks a lot for sharing your experience.. And sorry to be so long to reply [blush] Yes! It’s a similar problem to what you had… And the PMG rotor went in contact with its stator when failed. After PMG replacement, the unit was put back online and run about 2 days and tripped on loss...
  8. bkarim55

    Loss of Excitation on 10 MW Turbo Power Generator: Generator Main Breaker opened due to issue on ex

    Dear All We have 3 Power GT PGT10 driving a JEUMONT Generator. Usually 2 generators are running in parallel mode and the 3rd one is on Standby. We lost the PMG (Permanent magnet generator) on one of those GENs and the root cause of the damage was due to the PMG Bearings failure. A new genuine...

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