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 Plant Engineering Services Section
The Plant Engineering Services Section in the Mechanical
and Materials Engineering Division provides quick response field services for solving
machinery and piping system problems. The staff has extensive experience in compressor and
pipeline pulsation control, unsteady and pulsating flow measurement, and machinery
diagnostics.
The staff combines custom consultations, extensive field
studies, and comprehensive laboratory, analytical and computer-modeling capabilities to
rapidly and economically:
- Characterize machinery problems
- Diagnose the cause
- Predict the consequences
- Assess alternate designs
- Recommend solutions
A wide variety of field-portable sensors, data acquisition
systems, analyzers, and measurement systems of various types are maintained to support
work in the field. The staff maintains a "ready to travel" status to support
overnight response to critical need situations world-wide for the gas pipeline, paper, and
process industries.
The section develops:
- Remote machinery monitoring systems
- Sensors for special applications
- Diagnostic software tools
The section also conducts the annual research program for the
Gas Machinery Research Council (GMRC) of the Southern Gas Association. This
research program is designed to address developing needs in the gas pipeline and process
industries.
To learn more about gas turbine technology at SwRI, visit
gasturbines.swri.org or visit
turbinasdegas.swri.org.
Robert McKee,
Manager
Fluids
Engineering Department
Mechanical and Materials Engineering Division
SwRI Technical Divisions
 SwRI Home
July 03, 2008
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