Practical Machinery Management for Process Plants: Volume 2: Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting - Hardcover

Bloch, Heinz P.; Geitner, Fred K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884156621 ISBN 13: 9780884156628

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

This newly expanded edition discusses proven approaches to defining causes of machinery failure as well as methods for analyzing and troubleshooting failures.

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About the Authors

A consulting engineer residing in Montgomery, texas, Heinz. P. Bloch has held machinery-oriented staff and line positions with Exxon affiliates in the United States, Italy, Spain, England, The Netherlands, and Japan. His career spanned several decades prior to his 1986 retirement as Exxon Chemical's regional machinery specialist for the USA. Since his retirement from Exxon, he has been in demand throughout the world as a consultant and trainer in the areas of failure avoidance, root cause failure identification, and reliability improvement. Mr. Bloch is the author/co-author of thirteen books and over 200 other publications on subjects related to machinery reliability and failure avoidance. He is the Reliability and Equipment Editor of Hydrocarbon Processing magazine and has served as chair of the annual conference program for Hydrocarbon Processing's Process Plant Reliability Conference for a number of years.

Fred K. Geitner is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada, engaged in process machinery consulting. He retired from Imperial Oil with 20 years of service as an engineer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884156621
• ISBN 13: 9780884156628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 680