If equipment fails at a petrochemical plant or refinery, that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per day in lost production. To maintain machinery reliability, EDI helps plants & refineries develop practical solutions for successful and safe operation. By conducting complete design audits, EDI provides solutions for torsional vibration and rotordynamic problems in a wide range of refinery equipment. EDI also performs field measurements to trouble shoot existing problems. EDI can help ensure machinery operates free from high vibration and away from critical speeds.
Services
- Torsional Vibration Analyses
- Rotordynamic, Lateral Critical Speed & Stability
- Diagnostic Field Investigations
- Engine, Compressor & Skid Vibration
- Flow-Induced Vibration
- Foundation & Soil Dynamics
- Reciprocating Machinery Analyses
- Strain Gauging
- Structural Analysis
Equipment
- Centrifugal Compressors
- Electric Motors
- Engine Crankshafts
- Gearboxes
- Liquid Ring Compressors
- Pulsation Bottles
- Reciprocating Compressors
- Refinery Piping Systems
Expertise
Previous projects at refineries include solving rotordynamic problems such as compressor stability by redesigning bearings, to field balancing centrifugal compressors and large fans, to designing pulsation bottles for reciprocating compressors to prevent piping vibration, evaluating liquid ring compressor, to correcting torsional vibration problems with VFD motors, etc.
At major chemical plants around the world, EDI has worked on large vessels, structural vibration problems, centrifuges for caustic, high-pressure polyethylene reactor, etc.
For plastic plants, EDI has solved problems with mixers, drive trains, gearboxes, structural stiffness of skids, vertical reciprocating compressor with broken cylinder bolts, etc. Accelerometers along with strain gages can be used to determine if proper preload is being maintained in the studs between the compressor frame, crosshead, and cylinder pieces.
At major chemical plants around the world, EDI has worked on large vessels, structural vibration problems, centrifuges for caustic, high pressure polyethylene reactor, etc.
For plastics plants, EDI has solved problems with mixers, drive trains, gearboxes, structural stiffness of skids, vertical reciprocating compressor with broken cylinder bolts, etc. Accelerometers along with strain gages can be used to determine if proper preload in being maintained in the studs between the compressor frame, crosshead, and cylinder pieces.
