Protection and Condition Monitoring in Hazardous Areas with the SKF Multilog On-line System DMx

Among the many thousands of pieces of rotating equipment found in a typical oil and gas refinery or chemical plant, only a few are instrumented with vibration monitoring systems for machine protection or condition monitoring purposes. The vast majority of machines – most commonly electric motor driven pumps - carry either no such instrumentation, or very simplistic devices of limited use to a plant asset management program.

Two relatively new technologies described in this article are beginning to overcome these installation cost hurdles, and make the return-on-investment of expanding vibration monitoring instrumentation a practical reality.