Compressors: How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability

great reference book for process industry professionals.

Masters of machinery reliability and available, Bloch and Geitner, have succeeded again with their new, well-presented, short book, Compressors! Anyone with a 9th grade education can read and understand their details and their math is easy. Successful rotating equipment is all about implementing the many important details outlined in their terse presentation of Compressors. Rotating equipment specialist must consistently know and implement these details for success.Bloch and Geitner point out several times that often used API and other standards represent bare minimum requirements. Bloch and Geitner present additional requirements plus the logic for their tougher standards, which must be achieved for long life and failure free compression equipment.Aspiring rotating equipment engineers and battle hardened rotating equipment veterans can benefit from the well written and carefully presented format of Compressors. Details from this book will quickly get the maintenance and reliability staff to the "Ah Ha" state for both education and training.Maintenance Managers, Reliability Managers, Production Managers, and Plant Managers can benefit from a careful study of details in this short book. With information from Compressors, these key leaders can ask the correct questions to stimulate their engineering staffs to pay attention to the very important details for long life and failure free equipment. Key technical questions by these managers from the book Compressors will set the proper culture for profitable survival in a competitive business area. After all, you cannot live long enough to learn all these details by yourself! With help from the experts Bloch and Geitner, you can stand on their shoulders to see into a successful future.Paul Barringer, PEBarringer & Associates, Inc.Reliability, Manufacturing, and Engineering ConsultantsJuly 8, 2012

pretty good book for the stated purpose. I also have Bloch's other book "Reciprocating Compressors." They make a good set for the student or instructor.

I just finished reading Heinz Bloch and Fred Geitner's new book "Compressors, How to Achieve High Reliability & Availability", and consider it a must read book for technical folks. Even if you have a wealth of books and papers on compressors, this extremely practical book places all the critical items within the 257 pages. This is a book I wish I had at the start of my career, as it would have eliminated the need to learn many lessons the hard way. An excellent book for those wishing to learn about compressors as well as the seasoned veteran who requires a review on the most common types of compressors and their components.

Good read and contains information as advertised.