Rotating to the Future - Relevance Today and a Revolutionary Tomorrow

摘要

The year is 1952. The Today show premieres on NBC, Elizabeth Ⅱ becomes Queen of England, Mr. Potato Head makes his debut and Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democratic Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois in the election. Also that year, the Pulsation Research Council, later known as the Gas Machinery Research Council (GMRC), is established to remedy the pulsation and resulting vibration challenges inherent in the rapid expansion of natural gas pipeline facilities in the United States. The Pulsation Research Council was the brainchild of the Transmission Section of the Southern Gas Association. The Section recommended the creation of the council to further the development of technology and devices designed to eliminate or lessen pulsation problems encountered in gas pipeline compressor stations without loss of compressor efficiency. Procedures existing at that time for minimizing vibration substantially decreased the operating efficiency of the compressor station engines and compressors.