by BurningStick Creative | May 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Overview: This article is the first installment of a new metallurgical series in Engineer’s Dialogue. Metallurgical failures can be extremely costly, resulting in replacement costs, down time, and in the worst case, injury or loss of life. Thus, preventing as many of... 
by BurningStick Creative | May 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Background: Many times, designing static and rotating equipment starts with a specifications sheet that lists performance expectations and requirements. Frequently, startup or shutdown requirements are not listed. For static equipment, this could be heat-up rates or... 
by BurningStick Creative | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Background: Transfer Line Exchangers (TLE’s) are applied widely in industry in the process of ethylene production. Its function is to rapidly quench the effluent gas from the radiant coils of ethylene cracking furnaces. The equipment, referring to Figure 1, are... 
by BurningStick Creative | Apr 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Background: Crushers and Slag grinders are often applied in Materials Handling and Gasification plants to reduce the size of quenched slag from the gasifier’s tap-hole or break clinkers from slow moving bed reactors. These clinkers are typically brittle and relatively... 
by BurningStick Creative | Apr 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Background: It’s your first job as a rotating equipment engineer in a big production facility. They left you a gift: a huge noisy machine that keeps you awake at night. It has been running for years. But recently you noticed that the humming noise is turning into...
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