PREDITEC - IRM, Your partner in reliabilityGood vibrations?
Oliver Franz and Alexander Harenkamp, PRGONSOT Systems, Germany, question whether frame vibration offers effective machinery protection for reciprocating compressors.
For decades, reciprocating compresor was not a high priority, centrifugal machines were always the focus of operators and monitoring equipment investments. The reasons hor this are partially based on the high number of centrifugal compressors, in comparison to reciprocating compressors. Secondly, operators simply did not fear severe damages due to the low kinetic energy of there comparably slow running machines.
