Pump Selection


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Process Pump Selection


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This fully revised and up-dated Second Edition of the highly successful Process Pump Selection eases the daunting task that faces a process industries' engineer employed in the process industries and responsible for the specification, selection, and purchase of process equipment. This volume provides essential guidelines, based on the operational experience of large numbers of plumbing installations over many years on a diverse range of duties and process plants. Process Pump Selection: A Systems Approach will be an invaluable source of information for engineers and others working for user organizations in the process and service sector industries. It will not only be of great assistance to engineers faced with the specification, selection, and procurement of pumps, but will also provide pump manufacturers with a great insight into the problems facing pump users and plant designers. COMPLETE CONTENTS: Pump specification and selection Positive displacement pumps: reciprocating metering Positive displacement pumps: reciprocating special purpose Positive displacement pumps: rotary Centrifugal pumps Centrifugal pumps: special purpose and multistage Common points Sealing considerations Pump and system combined Appendices Index







Handbook of Pumps and Pumping


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Written by an experienced engineer, this book contains practical information on all aspects of pumps including classifications, materials, seals, installation, commissioning and maintenance. In addition you will find essential information on units, manufacturers and suppliers worldwide, providing a unique reference for your desk, R&D lab, maintenance shop or library.* Includes maintenance techniques, helping you get the optimal performance out of your pump and reducing maintenance costs * Will help you to understand seals, couplings and ancillary equipment, ensuring systems are set up properly to save time and money * Provides useful contacts for manufacturers and suppliers who specialise in pumps, pumping and ancillary equipment




How to Select the Right Centrifugal Pump


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Choosing a centrifugal pump from the countless options available can be daunting, but someone has to make the decision. Many factors -such as the required flow, differential pressure, suction conditions, etc.- must be weighed against the capital costs and cost of energy for the pumps considered. To determine the right pump, you must consider the overall cost of ownership, which includes capital cost, operating costs, and maintenance cost. What good is a low cost pump if it is inefficient or if is costly to maintain? The selection methodology offered in this book focuses mainly on hydraulic design considerations, but it also touches on mechanical design details. Analyzing basic pump hydraulic parameters allows you to quickly determine if a centrifugal pump makes sense for your particular application. If you do decide a centrifugal pump will work for your application, then you need to be able to evaluate the various bids returned by pump manufacturers. A complete chapter is devoted to tabulating quotes from pump manufacturers in order to properly evaluate their bids and select the best overall option.










Pump User's Handbook


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Simply put, this book explains what exactly needs to be done if a facility wants to progress from being a one, two or three year pump MTBF plant, and wishes to join the leading money-making facilities that today achieve a demonstrated pump MTBF of 8.6 years.




Cavitation And The Centrifugal Pump


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This practical reference describes the occurrence of cavitation in a centrifugal pump, and how unacceptable cavitation can be avoided. It explains cavitation problems such as hydraulic performance loss, hydrodynamically or thermodynamically induced surging, and cavitation erosion. General guidelines for acceptable operation conditions, such as, net positive suction head (NPSH) margins and minimum flowrates, are presented along with evidence and logic for these proposed guidelines.




Centrifugal Pump Clinic, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded


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Maintaining the excellent coverage of centrifugal pumps begun in the First Edition -- called ``useful'' and ``indispensable'' by reviewers -- the Second Edition continues to serve as the most complete and up-to-date working guide yet written for plant and design engineers involved with centrifugal pumps.