Five Minute Facts
What CBM Looks Like at the World’s Largest Integrated Water and Power Facility
Marafiq IWPP is the world's largest integrated water and power facility. We generate 2743 megawatts of electricity and produce 177 million gallons of water per day. On the power side, we currently have four blocks...
- Adnan Aslam
- Jubail O&M Company Limited
Visualizing Vibration
We're so used to measuring the heartbeat of the machine (the frequency), and the amplitude and severity of vibration. Here, we're going to use a technology called motion amplification to analyze how the machine moves visually...
- Dean Whittle
- Reliability Maintenance Solutions Ltd
What’s the Best Color Palette?
What is the best color palette to use for your infrared camera and program? There are several factors to contemplate when selecting a palette for use in the field and additional considerations when selecting a palette for analysis and reporting. This tip will briefly describe some options to scrutinize when deciding what the best palette is for you.
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
Rotor Bar Fault Progression with Load
Rotor bar anomalies are difficult to identify and when they are identified the available data can be confusing and misinterpreted. This instructional presentation describes what effects load will have on spectral data associated with rotor bar anomalies.
- Don Donofrio
- The Snell Group
A Dog’s Sense of Hearing or Smell Teaches Man a Valuable Lesson
Workers at a hydrofracking pad had a dog routinely visit the site, and one day the dog alerted them to a leak. The workers did not smell the leak or hear the leak; the dog’s hearing and smell was the reason the leak was detected. Should all sites use trained dogs to detect leaks? Watch this five-minute fact to find out...
- Drew Walts
- IRISS
Facts Identified During an Oil Coking Investigation
A heater was burning the oil, and that residual burnt oil was contaminating the system and choking up the filter within just a few hours. Here are some facts we identified when we investigated...
- Ghulam Jillani
- Dubai Natural Gas Company Limited
You Can See It, but Can You Measure It?
Just because you can see an anomaly does not mean you can radio-metrically measure it using an infrared camera. The concept of spatial and measurement resolution is one of several reasons and will be briefly described in this 5-minute fact...
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
The Wind Power Industry and Vibration Monitoring
This 5-minute fact explains how predictive maintenance based on vibration monitoring can raise the efficiency of wind turbines...
- Chris Hansford
- Hansford Sensors
Use HD Technology to Detect Bearing Damage
Loss of production is a problem for any site, but the cause can be detected and corrected early with HD technology. In this case study, bearing damage in a pump of a cooling system was detected and corrected before...
- Ettore Di Pasquale
- SPM Instrument Srl