Asset Performance Management
Bently Nevada™

3500 Reciprocating Compressors Monitoring & Protection

3500 Reciprocating Compressors Monitoring & Protection


Overview

Course Description

Bently Nevada™ 3500 Reciprocating Compressors Monitoring & Protection

This 1-day course equips your instrumentation and control (I&C) personnel with the skills they need to maintain machine monitoring instrumentation on your reciprocating compressors. As a result, you will have more reliable asset monitoring and increase machine availability for optimal safe production.


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Who should attend
  • 3500 monitoring system users
  • Engineers involved in maintenance and troubleshooting of instrumentation connected to BN3500 rack(s) monitoring reciprocating compressors
  • Instrument technicians
Objectives

 List the basic components of an API-618 reciprocating compressor

  • Explain the value of monitoring reciprocating compressors and describe a typical monitoring strategy in line with API-618 and API-670 guidelines
  • Explain the importance of crank angle reference measurement in recip monitoring and diagnostics
  • Configure RECIP-specific 3500 monitoring modules
  • Identify rod drop and rod position measurements
  • Calibrate, set up, and maintain rod drop and rod position measurements


Summary
1 day / 7 hrs
Classroom

Program Outline
Program:

Basic elements of a reciprocating compressors

•    Monitoring and protection of reciprocating compressors

•    Crankshaft timing

•    3500/25 configuration

•    3500/70M configuration

•   Rod drop and rod position

•   3500/72M configuration

•   Probe calibration workshop

•   3500/77M configuration



Upcoming Sessions
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