Pump User's Handbook

by Bloch, Heinz P.

• ISBN13: 9780824748142
• ISBN10: 082474814X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Marcel Dekker Inc

Summary

This text explains just how and why the best-of-class pump users are consistently achieving superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability. Written by two practicing engineers whose combined 80-year working career included all conceivable facets of pumping technology, this book conveys, in detail, what facilities must do to rapidly accomplish best-of-class performance and low life cycle cost. Simply put, the text explains what exactly needs to be done if a facility wants to progress from being a one, two or three year pump MTBF plant, and wishes to join the leading money-making facilities that today achieve a demonstrated pump MTBF of 8.6 years. Implementing what this text explains will allow a plant to move from yesterday's demonstrably unprofitable and costly repair focus to tomorrow's absolutely necessary reliability focus. Aimed at operating technicians, maintenance professionals, project engineers, reliability engineers a

Table of Contents

Preface
Pump System Life Cycle Cost Reduction	1	(4)
How to Buy a Better Pump---Initial Cost Issues	5	(28)
Piping---Baseplate---Installation and Foundation Issues	33	(42)
Operating Efficiency Improvement Considerations	75	(16)
Improved Pump Hydraulic Selection Extends Pump Life	91	(12)
Improvements Leading to Mechanical Maintenance Cost Reductions	103	(18)
Bearings in Centrifugal Pumps	121	(38)
Mechanical Seal Selection and Application	159	(36)
Improved Lubrication and Lube Application	195	(42)
Oil Mist Lubrication and Storage Preservation	237	(22)
Coupling Selection Guidelines	259	(10)
Pump Condition Monitoring Guidelines	269	(16)
Pump Types and Materials	285	(34)
Pump Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting	319	(36)
Shop Repair and Spare Parts Availability & Procurement	355	(20)
Appendices	375	(26)
References	401	(6)
Index	407