Pump Monitoring - SKF Multilog On-line Protection System DMx Hazardous Area Installations

Amongst the many thousands of pieces of rotating equipment found in a typical oil and gas refinery or chemicals 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 at all, or very simplistic devices of limited use to a plant asset management program.

Plants would like to provide on-line monitoring and protection similar to API-670 standards on the more important (semi-critical) pumps, but in the past have been unable to justify installation costs of traditional 19” rack architecture systems.

This short application note illustrates how this sizeable retrofit market can be cost-effectively addressed with the SKF Multilog On-line System DMx.