Facilities to Be Available in the Plant

It is advisable to have instruments and devices for detecting conditions detrimental to equipment life and for carrying out preventive maintenance. Some of these are as follows  

Ultrasonic thickness testers for checking shells of storage tanks and process units  

Vibration analysers for blowers, compressors, crushers and agitators or if abnormal vibrations and abnormal rubbing noise are noticed  

Dial gauges for checking alignments of machines (specially high speed) coupled to gearboxes and motors  

Tong testers for checking actual current drawn by a motor if ammeter is not provided or if the motor is tripping often  

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