Description
This Chemical Engineering Guidebook provides useful engineering recommendations for selecting, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting pumps to ensure safe, cost-effective operation. Several articles focus on reciprocating pumps and positive-displacement pumps, while others focus on selection and fabrication of pumps for hygienic applications in biopharmaceutical, food-and-beverage, and other pristine-processing applications.
Features & Benefits
- Guidance on sizing, specifying, and selecting pumps for a wide range of process conditions
- Recommendations for calculating net positive suction head (NPSH) to optimize pump operation
- Insights into sealless pumps and hygienic equipment fabrication for safe, contained operations
- Engineering tips for condition monitoring of pumps and other rotating machinery
- Foundational guidance on equipment installation, vibration mitigation, and P&ID development
- Best practices in commissioning capital equipment and using corrosion data to monitor aging assets
- Published between 2012 and 2019, providing practical, time-tested engineering advice
Audience
- Process, chemical, and mechanical engineers
- Plant operations and maintenance engineers
- Design engineers responsible for pump selection and system integration
- Reliability and maintenance specialists
- Technical managers in chemical, pharmaceutical, food-and-beverage, and biotech industries
Articles Include
- Principles of P&ID Development
- Mixing: Impeller Performance in Stirred Tanks
- Integrity of Aging Assets: Using Corrosion Data to Stave Off Extinction
- Continuous Monitoring of Corrosion Can Prevent Process Equipment Failures
- Crossflow Membrane Filtration Essentials
- Positive Displacement Pumps
- Flow Profile for Reciprocating Pumps
- Fire-Water Pumps for CPI Facilities
- Considerations for Estimating the Costs of Pilot-Scale Facilities
- Engineering & Construction (E&C): Modeling Integration Enables Optimized Execution
- Sizing, Specifying and Selecting Centrifugal Pumps
- Pump Sizing and Selection Made Easy
- Lifecycle Costs for Capital Equipment in the CPI
- Field Troubleshooting 101 and How to Get the Job Done
- Using Corrosion as a Process Variable
- Hygienic Process Equipment Fabrication
- Condition Monitoring for Rotating Machinery
- Storage Tanks: Heating and Cooling System Design
- Precision Grouting: Setting the Foundation for Equipment Reliability
- Safety in Sulfuric Acid Storage Tanks
- Best Practices in Capital Equipment Commissioning
- Coupler Technologies for Secure Chemical Handling
- Variable Frequency Drives
- Calculate NPSH with Confidence
- The Benefits of Seal-less Pumps for Full Product Containment
- Addressing Pumping Issues in Biopharmaceutical Operation
- Condition Monitoring Methods for Pumps
Details
Type: PDF
Pages: 156
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