Design Services
Overview

Build-in vibration solutions, reliability, and performance right at the start to avoid costly problems later on. 

The BETA Advantage

  • Responsive Customer Service
  • Trust and Experience (over 40 years of success with the world’s leading oil companies, EPCs, OEMs and Packagers)
  • Superior analytical tools
  • Global support
  • Research and development to find new approaches to improve machinery performance and reliability 
We test and improve our designs
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Reciprocating Compressors

  • API 618 requirements and application support
  • Design Approach 1: Rapid Bottle Sizing
  • Design Approach 2: Pulsation (Acoustical) Analysis
  • Design Approach 3: Pulsation + Mechanical Analysis
  • Torsional Studies
  • Piping system stress and flexibility (thermal) analysis - piping vibration and diagnostics
  • Other performance or vibration studies (see also Compressor Design Optimization, below)
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Reciprocating (Plunger) Pumps

  • Pulsation (Acoustical Analysis (per API 674)
  • Mechanical Analysis
  • Torsional Studies
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Rotating Equipment

  • Flow-induced studies
  • Pulsation control (screw compressor systems)
  • High-frequency piping pulsation/vibration
  • Torsional Studies
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Compressor Design Optimization

  • Evaluate different design alternatives using a System Performance Model™ (SPM™) program.
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Skid Design

  • Dynamic Vibration Analysis
  • Lifting, transportation and environmental loading

 

 

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Structural Design (Platforms/FPSOs)

  • Dynamic vibration analysis of offshore production facilities
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AIV, FIV, Small Bore Piping, Transient Event, Water Hammer

  • Acoustic Induced Vibration (AIV) studies
  • Flow Induced Vibration (FIV) studies, also called Vortex Shedding studies
  • Small bore (branch connection) piping design and field engineering to avoid fatigue failure in process piping
  • Transient event studies for compressor or pump systems, including water hammer, bypass systems, start-up and emergency shut-down events
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Foundation Design

  • Geotechnical, dynamics and machinery expertise combined
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FEA and CFD Capabilities

  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Torsional Vibration Analysis

  • Modal Analysis
  • Forced Response Analysis
  • For reciprocating gas compressors, screw compressors, plunger and centrifugal pumps, centrifugal compressors, and engines