Jaime Cazares

Remove piping, bolts, and prep to remove caps on a horizontal single split centrifugal compressor, as well as setting up rigging to remove Hp and Lp thrust bearings. After that removal of shaft and impellers along with the seals. Once complete clean all components and prepare for reinstall. Inspect all bolts and case surfaces for any high points

This job consisted of working on stack fans on the heaters, it consisted of removal of turbine and shaft with fan for replacement. Then right after inspection of bases and pedestals and honning down and high spots. Once equipments arrived back begin to reinstall starting with the fan and shaft starting with realignment, and once complete work our way down to the steam turbine and gear box and begin realignment.

Work on Fin fans which included full removal of shaft bearing and fins. removed old bearing housing and installed new bearing housing along with new fin blades. Once complete we installed fin fans set the belt and made sure it cracked and stayed aligned and set pitch to fan blades.

Removal of valves, psv's, open manways, and read isos in order to be able to find equipment. Also wearing fresh air equipment for certain valves and blind removals and reinstalling valves and spools with correct bolts and gaskets. once complete go back and torque all bolts to specs.

Grout work in order to level and align new Turbines for cooling tower. Also pump removal and reinstall and once installed, we would first get an as found before removal and once ready to install utilize the rotalign in order to get .002 of alignment (+ or -) and either add or remove shims. After this process we would receive help from the pipping department to do a pipe strain and make up each bolt as well to keep strain withing 2 thousands of an inch

Exchanger work would consist of removing dollar plate, floating head and channel head depending on the exchanger. Once we would remove these items send them for cleaning and reinstalling for hydro static testing for the tubes and then right after the shell side.