Mark R. Sandberg, P.E. Principal Consulting Engineer

Mark R. Sandberg is the principal of Sandberg Turbomachinery Consulting, LLC. Before forming this consulting practice in 2016, he was a Consulting Machinery Engineer with Chevron Energy Technology Company in Houston, Texas for more than fifteen years. Prior to joining Chevron, he was employed by ARCO, Petro-Marine Engineering, and The Dow Chemical Company. During his sixteen years at ARCO, he was involved with a number of gas turbine driven compressors, both internationally and on the North Slope of Alaska. Throughout the majority of his career, he has been involved in providing technical assistance and services associated with the selection, design, specification, procurement, and testing of new rotating equipment along with failure analysis and troubleshooting issues with existing equipment, primarily in upstream oil and gas production and LNG processing operations. Mark has more than 40 years of varied experience in the process industries and has been involved with the design, manufacture, testing, and installation of several small to large gas turbine driven centrifugal compressor trains worldwide. Mr. Sandberg has B.S.M.E. and M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, an Emeritus Member of the Texas A&M Turbomachinery Advisory Committee, a member of AIAA and a Life Fellow Member of ASME.

Publications

Publications and Links:

A More Detailed Explanation of the Sandberg-Colby Method for the Evaluation of Centrifugal Compressor Thermodynamic Performance

March, 2020, ResearchGate.

Link: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15841.66401

Compressor Selection for LNG Liquefaction Plants

September, 2019, Proceedings of the 48th Turbomachinery Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188625

A More Comprehensive Evaluation of Equation of State Influences on Compressor Performance Determination

December, 2017, Proceedings of the 46th Turbomachinery Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Link: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/166804

Centrifugal Compressor Configuration, Selection and Arrangement: A User’s Perspective

September, 2016, Proceedings of the 45th Turbomachinery Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Link: https://doi.org/10.21423/R1QP46

Limitations of ASME PTC 10 in Accurately Evaluating Centrifugal Compressor Thermodynamic Performance

October, 2013, Proceedings of the 42nd Turbomachinery Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Link: https://doi.org/10.21423/R1505Q

Equation of State Influences on Compressor Performance Determination

September, 2005, Proceedings of the 34th Turbomachinery Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Link: https://doi.org/10.21423/R1QD4F

Recent Experiences In Full Load Full Pressure Shop Testing Of A High Pressure Gas Injection Centrifugal Compressor

September, 1994, Proceedings of the 23rd Turbomachinery Symposium, Turbomachinery Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.

Link: https://doi.org/10.21423/R1GH2J