Thanks all for your replies. I have about 20 projects going and an outage scheduled for the first week of December. I haven't had much time to read through all of this but I will as soon as I can get some loose ends tied up.
The contractor fabricating these items won't be ready for several...
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We'll need to know more about your I-beam (S for standard beam geometry) before anyone can help you. The I-beam will have a weight per lineal foot as a function of the web thickness and flange width, .ie. 4x9.5 is a 4" standard I-beam with the web @ .326" thick and the...
I have a large fabrication that I call out for thermal stress relieve. It is fabricated from W10 X 100 ASTM A572 grade 50 steel. It's approximate overall size is 14W X 14L X 6H and has several wear plate bosses machined on it after stress releive. One of the vendors has taken an exception to...
Sorry about the late come back on this but I've been asigned to another area and function and will not be following this problem any loger. I do have some results from an independant lab on the bowl errosion issue. It is "quoted" as follows:
"1. The Brinnel hardness of the bowl...
We are sending the bowl out for analysis this week and I will post any viable information from it to this thread. Thanks everyone for your interest and support. I do not have the complete water analysis information yet. I will include it also with bowl information.
I do have several photos that...
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I have worked at this plant for 25 years but just recently was asked to look into this problem. My primary job has been mechanical equipment design, hydraulic servo systems and standard hydraulic controls. Water wells will be new to me.
There have been water samples taken but I do...
HI,
We have 9 deep well vertical turbine pumps near the local river that supply water to our process. Since the installation of pump #8 we've had reduced life of pump bowl components. At this time we also upgraded to VFD drive packages to reduce shock loading on pumps. We do not use VFD to...
