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Water, Wastewater Pumping Trends and Solutions
Advancements in water treatment and plant modernization drive growth in the water and wastewater pumping industry. While new construction in the municipal water-treatment market has remained relatively...
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Select The Best Seats for Your Butterfly Valves
Butterfly valves owe much of their popularity to their economic cost and efficient designs. Among the butterfly valves available in today’s marketplace, the resilient-seated type (the most basic) is...
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Pump ‘Cavitation’ Might Not Be
The word “cavitation” should be quite familiar to those who work around pumps. As Stan Riddle of VibrAlign Inc. (vibralign.com, Richmond, VA) points out, it’s often used as a catch-all term for any...
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Avoid Common Pump Spec Mistakes
When it comes to keeping food and beverage pumps running efficiently, a pump expert identifies errors you should avoid. For the past 30 years, Jim McCormick has been solving problems for his sanitary-...
View ArticleConvincing Management on Digital Investments
The digital endgame is a bit murky for many manufacturers and there’s no manual for all plants or factories. When starting a digital upgrade project, there’s a good deal of assets to identify in order...
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Be Aware of Wear Before Failure
A chemical-pump expert shows how preventive maintenance can ensure chemical pumping performance. Understanding that flow components such as diaphragms and check valves will start to show wear before...
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Vibration Points to Piston Pump Failure
Research project uses vibration analysis to accurately predict failure of new and rebuilt variable-displacement hydraulic-piston pumps. By Garrett Wolfe, CAT III Vibration Analyst, Vallourec Star...
View ArticleDetermine A Vertical Pump’s Natural Frequency
What’s the best way to determine the natural frequency of your vertical pumps? According to Dave Leach, CRL, CMRT, CMRP, there are two commonly used testing methods. A vibration specialist with Ludeca...
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Legacy Equipment: Upgrade or Replace?
Since there’s no one-size-fits-all answer, you’ll need to run the numbers. The industrial landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade. As a result, advanced technologies are now providing a...
View ArticlePredictive Pump Monitoring in these 3 Areas
Recent Efficient Plant posts on plant investment are showing some of the challenges in getting new equipment or predictive monitoring pilot projects off the ground. With so many new technologies and...
View ArticleManage Pump-System Vibration With Sensors
Fluid-handling pumping systems are deployed everywhere in industry. Unfortunately, these workhorses have always been subject to some degree of vibration during operation. In a recent blog post, John...
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Laser System Assures Pump Efficiency
LevAlign Expert system provides simple accurate measurement of vertical-pump tolerances. For 10 years, 56 vertical utility pumps operated continuously and without incident at one of the world’s largest...
View ArticleMonitoring System Cuts Fire Potential
Online continuous-monitoring system helps prevent critical-pump failures and reduces maintenance costs. A major North American refinery had an issue with their critical balance-of-plant pumps. When the...
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