Design and construction of a cost effective test facility for testing large rotating machines to API 541 and 546 standards

Author

Hensler, K.V. ; Mathewson, B.J.

Author_Institution

Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

13-15 Sep 1993

Firstpage

211

Lastpage

219

Abstract

The modern test facility must be user friendly, versatile, and cost effective to build and operate. The design philosophy of integrating used equipment into a computer controlled system, is discussed. This includes discussions on safety, technical, economic and data reliability concerns. The thought process and design philosophies of the modern rotating machine manufacturer when designing and building test facilities to test API and IEEE standards are discussed. Care has been taken to keep the subject matter as informative as possible for the potential user of such facilities without emphasizing theoretical technical details of interest only to the electrical machine designer

Keywords

electric machines; machine testing; reliability; safety; standards; test facilities; API 541; API 546; IEEE; construction; cost effective; design; large rotating machines; machine testing; reliability; safety; standards; test facility; Assembly; Control systems; Costs; Manufacturing; Power generation economics; Process design; Rotating machines; Safety; Test facilities; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference, 1993, Record of Conference Papers. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Incorporated. Industry Applications Society 40th Annual

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCICON.1993.337400

Filename

337400