For mechanical design of a fluid film bearing, the bearing designer must not only consider the proper sizing of the bearing to handle the...

As mentioned in part 1 of this series, the solution to the shortcomings of centrifugal pumps can be positive displacement (PD) screw pumps. The...

Read Part 1 Here! In last month’s start to this article, we explained how, for several different applications, medium voltage VFDs are typically superior to...

Medium range voltage motors serve a broad range of industries and applications, including oil and gas, petrochemical processing, mining, pumping systems, and compression equipment....

Conventional centrifugal water pumps are unable to be significantly improved; however the Stelth “Solid Body Vortex” principle, employed as a pump, approaches the problem...

By Heinz P. Bloch As a reliability professional since 1962, the author had many occasions to evaluate industry experience and feedback (see reference 1). He...

Since its introduction as a plant-wide lubrication method in the United States, oil mist lubrication has been extended to over 100,000 process pumps and...

Big Data, Cloud, Internet of Things, and Smart Factory: This is just a selection of the buzzwords currently dominating the discussions in many industry...

Although bearings, gears, rollers, and other precision components are generally made of hardened steel or metal alloys, those utilized in high load applications still...

By Del Williams For many applications, industrial gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, CO2, and others are delivered in steel cylinders at pressures of 2,000-2,600...