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Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension, Third Edition
Heinz P. Bloch and Allan R. Budris

 

 

Price: $158.95

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Fairmont Press
Publish Date: March 2010
Pages: 500

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This practical guide explains how you can achieve consistently superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability in all of your pump applications. Written by two practicing engineers whose combined 80-year working careers included all conceivable facets of pumping technology, this handbook details what facilities must do to rapidly accomplish superior performance and low life-cycle cost for pumps of all types and sizes.

Aimed at operating technicians, maintenance professionals, project engineers, reliability engineers and managers, the book is intended for every job function that comes in contact with process pumps. Utilities, power generation facilities, pulp and paper plants, consumer product manufacturers, pharmaceutical plants, mining operations, chemical and petrochemical plants, municipal works, oil and gas pipelines, and oil refineries are among those that can significantly profit from implementing the guidelines described in this unique, experience-based text.

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Table of Contents

  • Pump System Life Cycle Cost Reduction

  • How to a Better Pump: Initial Cost Issues

  • Piping, Baseplate, Installation & Foundation Issues

  • Operating Efficiency Improvement Considerations

  • Improved Pump Hydraulic Selection Extends Pump Life

  • Improvements Leading to Mechanical Maintenance Cost Reductions

  • Bearings in Centrifugal Pumps

  • Mechanical Seal Selection & Application

  • Improved Lubrication and Lube Application

  • Oil Mist Lubrication & Storage Preservation

  • Coupling Selection Guidelines

  • Pump Condition Monitoring Guidelines

  • Pump Types & Materials

  • Pump Failure Analysis & Troubleshooting

  • Shop Repair & Spare Parts Availability & Procurement

  • Failure Statistics & Component Uptime Improvement Summary

  • Appendices

  • References

  • Index


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