The former headquarters of the international oil corporation that everyone knows today as British Petroleum (BP) were located in the historic Britannic House, Finsbury Circus, in London. The building has a notable history, ...

A labourer driving a tractor pulling oilfield equipment while others look on. There are pipes stacked on the side of the road in a neat pile. Postcard number S3-2.

The technique of oil analysis is a type of predictive maintenance, it can be made collecting the oil of an equipment and analyzing it. The analysis of oils through the analytical ferrografia allows identifying the first ...

Rotating machines are used in numerous applications such as in oil, paper, power generation industries, among others. The usage of these machines, that are more and more compact, in harsh environments, in critical positions ...

Time domain, also named lowfield nuclear magnetic resonance is used to monitor oil degradation by measuring relaxation and diffusion. As quality control of oils is indispensable to optimize oil change intervals while ...

From a historical perspective, the massive consumption of vegetable oils is a relativelyrecent phenomenon that began in the twentieth century due to the development oflarge-scale production of machinery and supplies after ...

The purpose of this study is to evidence the improvement of a fixed displacement pump hydraulic system energy efficiency using a frequency inverter. A didactic experiment was implemented under determined load condition, ...

It has been known for many years that rotating machinery with hydrodynamic oil-film bearings can exhibit oil-whirl instability, where the unidirectional oil-film force acts on the rotor causing it to vibrate at a natural ...