Monitoring performance in the field has always been a challenge due to an absence of field-mounted instrumentation, the time required for testing, and imprecision from the cumulative uncertainty of all performance variables involved.
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Due to high specific gravity, viscosity and particle size of mining materials, centrifugal pumps are continuously challenged in mining applications. New pump technology was created to efficiently move mining materials with less downtime.
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Pumps & Systems, October 2008
The North American submersible pumps market is a mature market in an uncertain economic climate, especially in the United States. Suppliers face a number of key challenges: general economic malaise, a housing industry downturn that has dramatically affected various markets including construction, and the threat of eroded funding (which affects the largest user industry: water/wastewater) from federal, state and local budgets.
I know that slurries require special attention when being pumped. What characteristics of slurries should be given consideration when specifying a rotodynamic pump?
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Clean Water Services is the sanitary sewer and surface water management utility for more than 500,000 people located mostly in urban Washington County in northwest Oregon. We operate four wastewater treatment plants and 39 pump stations, construct and maintain flood management and water quality projects, and manage flow in the gently meandering Tualatin River to improve water quality and protect fish habitat.
Ampac Fine Chemicals (AFC) is a leading U.S. contract manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients and registered intermediates. Our company, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Pacific Corporation, is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV, with production facilities in Rancho Cordova, CA, twenty miles east of Sacramento.
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Charlie Jackson was unaware of any centrifugal pump manufacturer that knew how to calculate hydraulic axial thrust produced within liquid ends of their pumps.
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The performance of a centrifugal pump with a trimmed impeller will follow the affinity laws as long as that trim is relatively small.
Standards for repair will begin with a standard for vertical turbine pumps.The pump industry is undergoing renewed interest in the technical aspects and quality of repairs.
Charlie Jackson was unaware of any centrifugal pump manufacturer that knew how to calculate hydraulic axial thrust produced within liquid ends of their pumps.
