Mark Hullinger, an experienced rotating engineer at Williams, worries about the aging legacy monitoring systems for his 15 compressor stations. If just one of his gas-fired engines or reciprocating compressors goes down unexpectedly, there will be severe consequences for delivering gas. Therefore, Mark’s team made an important decision to replace the obsolete systems with a […]
By Michael Hastings, Senior Applications Engineer Brüel & Kjær Vibro’s machine condition monitoring solutions are involved in a lot of green industrial environment projects. For example, renewable energy, green ethylene production, combined cycle energy production, and refining clean-burning fuel. It is the latter where our VC-8000 SETPOINT CMS has recently been implemented in a large […]
Monitoring The World’s Largest Green Ethylene Plant High profile project requires effective monitoring Compass 6000™ was selected for monitoring this state-of-the-art plant when it was commissioned in 2010. Braskem, the largest petrochemical producer in the Americas and the fifth largest in the world by production capacity, built the green ethylene plant in the existing Triunfo [...]
How to extend a protection system with condition monitoring? GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR MACHINE DATA: No matter what kind of machine protection system you are using, be it a GE Bently Nevada 3500 Monitoring System, a GE Bently Nevada 3300 Monitoring System or any other brand complying to the API standard, an extension […]
SETPOINT VC-8000 installation at Kazakhstan’s Pavlodar Refinery results in official customer satisfaction letter Brüel & Kjær Vibro (BKV) was selected in 2018 to replace an ageing Bently Nevada® machinery protection system at the Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery (POCR) in Kazakhstan. BKV’s VC-8000 SETPOINT® machinery protection system was chosen due to its compatibility with the existing installation and […]
May 2019 SETPOINT VC-8000 installation at Kazakhstan’s Pavlodar Refinery results in an official customer satisfaction letter. Brüel & Kjær Vibro (BKV) was selected in 2018 to replace an aging Bently Nevada® machinery protection system at the Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery (POCR) in Kazakhstan. BKV’s VC-8000 SETPOINT® machinery protection system was chosen due to its compatibility [...]
Brüel & Kjær Vibro announced that it had received an order for the supply of VC-8000 SETPOINT® systems and services for the Huntly power station. Huntly is owned by Genesis Energy, the third largest generating company in New Zealand in terms of production capacity. Brüel & Kjær Vibro (B&K Vibro) announced that it had received […]
05/16/2017 , Company Brüel & Kjær Vibro (BKV) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the SETPOINT™ technology platform from Metrix Instrument Company, L.P. of Houston, Texas. SETPOINT’s ® technology is widely considered to be among the most innovative in the industry and gives BKV a modern, leading-edge solution for applications that require […]
Condition monitoring for hydroelectric power plants All the Aconcagua river basin hydro plants in Chile will now be monitored by B&K Vibro CHILEAN HYDROPOWER PROJECT WON! Colbún has awarded a contract to Brüel & Kjær Vibro for retrofitting four cascade hydropower stations on the Aconcagua river basin for protection and condition monitoring. Colbún, the second […]
SETPOINT system: Metrix Instrument Company today announced that its SETPOINT® Machinery Protection System now supports multiple frequency passbands and acceleration enveloping, commonly used to monitor rolling element bearing condition. Rolling element bearing (REB) support is the most recent in a long succession of completed and planned system upgrades. SETPOINT® was launched in 2011 with functionality […]
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