By Geof Brazier, BS&B Safety Systems For more than eighty-five years, rupture disks have served as an effective passive safety mechanism to protect against overpressure...

By David Steil, Camfil Air Pollution Control Effectively controlling toxic and combustible dust generated in chemical processing facilities is essential to protecting employee health, maintaining...

Miss part 1? Read it here. The first part of this series explored international and industry standards—namely ANSI, API, ASME, and ISO—and now we turn...

One of the major pump OEMs had invited Mechanical Solutions, Inc. to resolve an occurrence of multiple pump driveshaft failures for one of their...

see Part 1 here The benefits of simulating early as a part of the design process have been documented extensively. The cost of each engineering...

The growing demand for water for industrial applications, power production and water supply has resulted in an increasing need for water treatment. The water...

By Lin Liu, Zhuang Li, and Suri Ganeriwala, SpectraQuest, Inc. A shaft crack is a slowly growing fracture of the rotor. If undetected in an operating...

By Rachel Gold, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Virginia has recently made a major leap forward on energy efficiency and can serve as a...

In part 1 of this article, we discussed that a rotating machine begins to diminish in life immediately upon its first use. Although this...

A trend has been gaining steam. Electric modulating pressure-reducing valves (PRV) are increasingly replacing traditional self-piloted regulators in steam systems.  The adoption of this “smart” technology...