Piping Vibration due to Pressure Pulsations: Review

Abstract:

Excessive piping vibrations are a major cause of machinery downtime, leaks, fatigue failure, high noise, fires and explosions in refineries and petrochemical plants. In piping system, vibration excitation sources may come from mechanical sources, hydraulics sources or can be the combination of both. Low level vibration amplitude can be amplified when acoustic natural frequency of piping system coincide with the mechanical natural frequency of the piping system of which could lead to piping failure. To address these issues, several condition monitoring techniques to assess and detect excessive piping vibration is discussed in this paper.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 845)
• Pages: 350-354
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.845.350
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: M. Haryzul Ghazali*, Lim Meng Hee, M. Salman Leong
• Keywords: Acoustic, Condition Monitoring, Piping, Pressure Pulsations, Vibration

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