Fluke 810 Application Note Vibration Er Helps Keep The Oil Flowing

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Application Note

From the Fluke Digital Library @ www.fluke.com/library

“We went to our number eight

pump, and it said ‘motor-pump

misalignment.’ The coupling

has a shim pack—it’s kind of

a flex coupling. That was on a

400 horsepower. We thought

we might have a misalignment

on the motor but it turned out

we had a broken shim pack.

We fixed it and it’s still running

today, with no problem. It really

surprised me how it picked that

one up. I don’t know how it did

that.”

Ease of use is another advan-

tage. “You can give this thing

to just about anybody, and they

can learn how to use it in a

matter of a few minutes. You can

log all your equipment, you can

pair it up with Fluke’s infrared

camera and it will give you a full

picture.”

Today the Fluke 810 deliv-

ers results fundamental to the

company maintenance program.

“With the big motors, we do

the vibration analysis, we look

everything over on an annual

basis with the Fluke imager so

we can see if there’s any heat

rise, and we use it on all the

switch gear. I call it shoot—fix—

move on.

Applications: Diagnose issues in

large pumps, blowers and motors

Customer: Level II vibration expert,

pipeline logistics manager

Tools: 810 Vibration Tester

Fluke 810 Vibration

Tester helps keep

the oil flowing

That task is now easier for one

35-year industry veteran, the

area logistics manager for a

major oil company. For the past

year he’s been using the Fluke

810 Vibration Tester to diagnose

issues in pumps, blowers and

motors up to 3,500 horsepower

that pump 8,000 barrels an hour.

It’s a slick solution.

“This is something I’ve been

waiting on for quite some time,”

he said. “The ones we’ve used in

the past give you the vibration

signature, but you had to inter-

pret the signature. The problem

with that is you need to get that

in the hands of a technician who

knows how to read your signa-

ture. The neat thing about it is

the Fluke will give you its idea

of what it thinks is wrong.” he

said. “But it also gives you that

signature you can give to the

engineers.

“We went down to our

transport station—we’ve got

eight mainline units there—and

were able to find some bearing

problems on one of our units,”

he said. The Fluke 810 “called

out for a bearing problem. Once

we got the pump into the shop

we found out the shaft was

out of round, which took the

bearing out.

Testing Functions

Case Study The task: keep 40 electric motors on the job,

pumping crude oil, propane and other finished

petroleum products down the pipeline.

2 Fluke Corporation Fluke 810 Vibration Tester helps keep the oil flowing

“A lot of companies like to

bring people in who actually

do the vibration analysis and

thermal imaging for ‘em,” he

said. “The problem is they’ll

send you a report but it’s three

months down the road, and here

you’ve been running this piece

of equipment that’s had an issue

for over three months.” But with

the Fluke 810, “once you’ve got

your technicians trained you just

shoot, fix, and move on.”

With a typical vibration pro-

gram before the Fluke 810, he

added, “I was spending prob-

ably $16,000 just to do the first

pass. I can put this $8,000 piece

of equipment in their hands and

get the same performance.” No

wonder another company site

has adopted the Fluke 810, and

it’s being considered for use

company-wide.

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