Description
This Chemical Engineering guidebook contains dozens of practical, how-to engineering articles. The detailed engineering content featured in this volume provides guidance for the selection of many types of commonly used pumps, including positive-displacement pumps, centrifugal pumps, reciprocating pumps, vacuum pumps, sealless magnetic-drive pumps, low-flow pumps, peristaltic pumps, and more.
Additional engineering articles include tips for implementing variable-frequency drives, sizing pumps, and evaluating sealing options.
This PDF guidebook provides practical, actionable recommendations for proper selection, installation, operation, and troubleshooting — with an emphasis on minimizing maintenance costs and unexpected downtime while ensuring optimum pump performance.
Features & Benefits
- Comprehensive coverage of pump technologies and design principles, from centrifugal to positive-displacement pumps
- Guidelines for improving energy efficiency using variable-frequency drives
- Practical advice for proper pump sizing, selection, and sealing solutions
- Maintenance strategies to reduce operational downtime and extend equipment life
- Case-based insights for implementing cost-effective condition monitoring and leak detection programs
- Guidance on materials selection, lubrication practices, and process safety improvements
- Includes multiple “Facts at Your Fingertips” reference cards for quick engineering decision support
Audience
- Chemical process engineers responsible for rotating equipment and fluid-handling systems
- Maintenance and reliability engineers seeking to improve uptime and reduce lifecycle costs
- Plant operations and asset managers in chemical and process industries
- Design and project engineers specifying pumps and associated systems
- Technical professionals focused on process optimization, safety, and cost reduction
Articles and Topics Include
- Principles of P&ID Development – Streamline efforts to develop piping and instrumentation diagrams
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Positive Displacement Pumps
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Measurement Guide for Replacement Seals
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Tubing for Peristaltic Dosing Pumps
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Flow Profile for Reciprocating Pumps
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Construction-Cost Indices
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Vacuum Pumps
- Optimizing Reciprocating Compressors for CPI Plants – Improve design, performance, and reliability of compressors
- Gear Units in CPI Plants – Improve the selection and operation of gear units in CPI plants
- Fire-Water Pumps for CPI Facilities – Enhance selection, design, and operation of firefighting pump systems
- Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamps – Maximize upgrades designed to improve plant operations or throughput
- Variable Frequency Drives – Algorithmic selection of VFDs for centrifugal pumps
- Sizing, Specifying and Selecting Centrifugal Pumps – Guidelines for preliminary sizing and cost estimation
- Lubricating Rotating Machinery – Improve lubricant selection and asset reliability
- Use Simplified Lifecycle-Cost Computations to Justify Upgrades – Methods for benchmarking and performance comparisons
- Remote Thermal Sensing – Use of infrared technology for predictive maintenance
- Pressurized Piping: Sampling Steam and Water – Ensuring accurate chemistry analysis and sampling
- Plot Plan Design: Process Requirements – Optimal layout and geographical equipment positioning
- Facts at Your Fingertips: The Impact of Off-BEP Pump Operation
- Lifecycle Costs for Capital Equipment in the CPI – Long-term cost considerations for capital investments
- A Primer on Reverse Osmosis Technology – Industrial and potable water treatment applications
- Materials Selection in the CPI – Key factors in materials of construction decisions
- Rotating Machinery: Operational Problems – Improve reliability, safety, and operation of rotating machinery
- Condition Monitoring for Rotating Machinery – Insights into pump and compressor performance
- Inline Viscosity Measurements – Maintain process control and product quality
- Piping-System Leak Detection and Monitoring – Minimize leaks through proactive design
- Oil-Mist Systems – Comparison of open and closed-loop lubrication designs
- Making Pump Maintenance Mandatory – Ensuring reliable operation in harsh process conditions
- Improving the Operability of Process Plants – The impact of turndown and rangeability
- Facts at Your Fingertips: Variable Frequency Drives
- Calculate NPSH with Confidence – Avoid pitfalls in determining net positive suction head
- The Benefits of Seal-less Pumps for Full Product Containment – Safety and operational benefits for hazardous chemicals
- Condition Monitoring Methods for Pumps – Optimize overhaul scheduling and maintenance cost savings
- Magnetically Driven Pumps: An Overview – Understanding sealless technologies and applications
- Mechanical Seals Update – Proper seal selection for pharmaceutical and food applications
Details
Format: PDF
Pages: 161
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