Pumps Selection, Maintenance and Safety-Volume 1 - electronic book

• Comprehensive Pump Coverage: Practical guidance on vacuum pumps, diaphragm pumps, magnetically driven pumps, and more.
• Design & Safety: Insights into plant layout, piping codes, and process safety for reliable and compliant operations.
• Lifecycle Planning: Methods for lifecycle-cost analysis and performance benchmarking to justify upgrades and investments.
• Troubleshooting & Maintenance: Strategies for pump installation, lubrication, and mandatory maintenance programs.
• Operational Optimization: Coverage of variable-frequency drives, off-BEP operation, vortex breakers, and efficiency improvements.
• Process Integration: Engineering considerations for high-shear mixing, vacuum system design, and pressure relief optimization.

• Chemical, process, and mechanical engineers
• Plant managers and operations supervisors
• Maintenance and reliability engineers
• Project and design engineers in CPI facilities
• Engineering consultants and EPC contractors

Articles Include

• Cooling Towers: Estimate Evaporation Loss and Makeup Water Requirements
• Vacuum Pumps
• Chemical Process Plants: Plan for Revamps
• Pump Safety: Flirting with Disaster
• Process Plant Layout – Becoming a Lost Art?
• Recommended Fluid Velocities in Pipelines
• Pump Sizing Parameters
• Lubricating Rotating Machinery
• Use Simplified Lifecycle-Cost Computations to Justify Upgrades
• The Impact of Off-BEP Pump Operation
• High-Shear Mixing
• Cost Engineering: Equipment Purchase Costs
• Avoid Safety Pitfalls During Plant Expansion and Modification
• Vortex Breakers in Practice
• Optimizing Pressure Relief Systems
• The Unrecognized Problems of Relocating Laboratories
• Variable Frequency Drives for Centrifugal Pumps
• Commissioning and Startup: Increase Certainty Through Advanced Planning
• Making Pump Maintenance Mandatory
• Piping Codes: What the CPI Engineer Should Know
• Reduce Risk and Cost with a Lifecycle Approach to Process Safety
• Improving the Operability of Process Plants
• Magnetically Coupled Pumps: Structure, Function and Best Practice
• AODD Pumps in Chemical Processes
• An Overview of Vacuum System Design
• Magnetically Driven Pumps: An Overview

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