Pumps are employed in numerous applications due to
its efficient design and increased lifespan. However, frequent
maintenance is required to maintain the performance and lifespan of the
pumps. There are different types of pumps available that varies mainly
in its working principle.
For high pressure applications, there are a
variety of pumps that are used and installed to manage the work for
different set of industries. The pumps are widely used around the world
and they are manufactured with unique skills of designing and
engineering.
With state-of-the-art techniques and advanced
mechanism, numerous kinds of pumps have revolutionized the functioning
of specific industries. With the best of raw materials and
methodologies, the pumps facilitate effective performance and production
of products.
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of
five articles based on the Hydraulic Institute's new Positive
Displacement (PD) Pumps: Fundamentals, Design and Applications
e-Learning course.
Positive displacement (PD) pumps are used in a myriad of applications
across multiple industries. Users have found them to be the solution to
many specific pumping challenges; however, due to their size, simplicity
and ruggedness, they often are not as well understood as other pump
types.
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of five articles based on the Hydraulic Institute's new Positive Displacement (PD) Pumps: Fundamentals, Design and Applications e-Learning course.
Use of bearing sleeve material helps the long shaft run true.
Chemical attack is a destructive force in any high-tech manufacturing process. For TIMET’s Las Vegas, Nev., plant, the force was presenting itself during the high temperature mixing of titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4), known in the industry as TiCL.
Advanced motor protective relays provide superior protection for motors and pumps.
For years, motor overload relays have been used to protect pumping systems. Traditionally, they monitored current to protect the motor and relied on separate electromechanical sensors, such as flow meters or pressure gauges to protect the pump.
The North American submersible pumps market is a mature market in an uncertain economic climate, especially in the United States. Suppliers face a number of key challenges: general economic malaise, a housing industry downturn that has dramatically affected various markets including construction, and the threat of eroded funding (which affects the largest user industry: water/wastewater) from federal, state and local budgets.
The Hydraulic Institute published a standard to account for the effects of viscosity of centrifugal pump performance. Effects of Liquid Viscosity on Rotodynamic Centrifugal and Vertical Pump Performance—available at www.estore.pumps.org—was revised in 2010. Before this publication, viscosity corrections were done using viscosity correction charts.
The performance curves generated by many pump manufacturers are based on results obtained in their test facilities under tightly controlled conditions. The testing techniques used in the field can vary substantially and may or may not provide accurate results.
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For the maintenance of the system's pressure level, vacuum pumps are a real need. There are different types of the vacuum pumps that are available in the market. This can be easily applied for a number of applications in case of the industries.
Even though it is typically a home in a cold climate that we think of as needing a reliable heating system, the fact is that all houses are going to have to have a form of heat and cooling in order to keep them comfortable enough for people to live in them.
The pumps which can produce fluid flow with a minimum pressure of 800 psi are generally referred to as high pressure pumps. The high pressure pump can be broadly categorized into three types depending on the pressure levels.
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