Reciprocating Compressors:: Operation and Maintenance

by Heinz P. Bloch and John J. Hoefner

For anyone responsible for purchasing, servicing, or operating reciprocating compressors, this book discusses the theory of operation and explains how to install, troubleshoot, overhaul, and repair all types of compressors.This broad comprehensive text offers practical details on how to purchase, service, operate, and maintain compressors used in any of the process industries such as pulp and paper, mining, food processing, pharmaceuticals.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884155250
• ISBN13: 9780884155256
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Practical Reference to Reciprocating Compressors - Must have for the Industrial Practitioner

The starting point to select, install, operate or control specific Machinery is to learn and understand about its principles and technology. I am an Electronics Engineer, but I have been working for the last 16 years as an Instrumentation, Automation and Process Safety and Control Engineer for the Oil and Gas Industries. As a result I have been involved with Chemical and Mechanical Engineering issues related with both Reciprocating and Centrifugal Compressors in a day to day basic. This handy reference has proven most useful and time saving when in need of information or a shortcut to solve problems. This "quick-reference" guide offers you authoritative information on the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, reliability, and maintenance of Reciprocating Compressors. Absolutely a must have if you work with Reciprocating Compressors.

Outstanding Book on Reciprocating Compressors!

I am a rotating equipment specialist, and consider this a very thorough book on all aspects of reciprocating compressors, from the general design, installation, and maintenance point of view. What sets this book apart from others is that the author is a reliability specialist, and many of the hidden details that can lead to failures are pointed out. In addition, the book is extremely well illustrated with large clear pictures and drawings.