Forsthoffer's Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery

Optimize plant asset safety and reliability while minimizing operating costs with this invaluable guide to the engineering, operation and maintenance of rotating equipment. Based upon his multi-volume "Rotating Equipment Handbooks", "Forsthoffer's Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery" summarises, expands and updates the content from these previous books in a convenient all-in-one volume. Offering comprehensive technical coverage and insider information on best practices derived from lessons learned in the engineering, operation and maintenance of a wide array of rotating equipment, this new title presents: a unique 'Best Practice' and 'Lessons Learned' chapter framework, providing bite-sized, troubleshooting instruction on complex operation and maintenance issues across a wide array of industrial rotating machinery; five chapters of completely new material combined with updated material from earlier volumes, making this the most comprehensive and up-to-date handbook for rotary equipment currently available. Intended for maintenance, engineering, operation and management, "Forsthoffer's Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery" is a one-stop resource, packed with a lifetime's rotating machinery experience, to help you improve efficiency, safety, reliability and cost. This title includes a unique 'Lessons Learned/Best Practices' component opens and acts as a framework for each chapter. Readers not only become familiar with a wide array of industrial rotating machinery; they learn how to operate and maintain it by adopting the troubleshooting perspective that the book provides. Five chapters of completely new material combined with totally updated material from earlier volumes of Forsthoffer's Handbook make this the most comprehensive and up-to-date handbook for rotary equipment currently. Users of "Forsthoffer's multi-volume Rotating Equipment Handbooks" now have an updated set, with expanded coverage, all in one convenient, reasonably-priced volume.