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Increasing Pump Life In Abrasive Service Through State-Of-The-Art Surface Protection
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2000)
In hydrocarbon processing and oil and gas industries, many pumps are required to transport fluids containing some level of abrasive solids. If not properly designed and equipped with wear resisting materials, the pump ...
Improving Tribological Performance Of Mechanical Seals By Laser Surface Texturing
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2000)
Significant improvement in load capacity, wear resistance, friction coefficient, etc., of mechanical seals can be obtained by forming regular microsurface structure in the form of micropores on their surfaces. A feasibility ...
Pump Rerates - When And How
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2001)
During the life of a plant, there often arises a need to change a pump’s rating to match a new plant operating condition or raise the mean time between repair (MTBR) of an unreliable pump. In these cases, rerating the pump ...
Best Practices In Selecting And Applying Positive Displacement Pumps
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2001)
Selecting a positive displacement pump is many times a confusing process. Unlike centrifugal pumps were pumping technology is familiar, positive displacement pumps operate differently than centrifugal and there is a wide ...
Pumps - 2000 And Beyond
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2001)
New Development In Centrifugal Pumps For Optimum Cavitation Performance
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2000)
During the past three decades, there have been notable advances in the design of pumps. In a number of projects, the designers of process plants had, during optimization of their layouts, established a requirement for pumps ...
Numerical Prediction Of Cavitation In Pumps
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2001)
With the increase in power per unit of volume for modern pumps, driven by manufacturing costs reduction, cavitation becomes more and more the main limiting factor in pump design. The classical one-dimensional design rules ...
Temperature Measurement At Low Flow On Typical ANSI Chemical Process Pumps
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2000)
Chemical process pumps can be required to handle highly temperature sensitive liquids. Improper operation of such a centrifugal pump can lead to potentially dangerous liquid temperatures within the pump casing. Determination ...
Rolling Element Bearing Status Using Frequency Analysis
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2000)
It has been said that if one has perfect information, then one can make perfect decision. In the daily operation of a production facility, many decisions are made each day concerning the mechanical condition of production ...
Challenges For Pumps Handling Hot Refinery Residuum
(Texas A&M University. Turbomachinery Laboratories, 2008)