Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension, Third Edition

by Bloch; Heinz P.

• ISBN13: 9781439837405
• ISBN10: 1439837406
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: Fairmont Press

Summary

Now available in its fully revised third edition, this practical guide explains how you can achieve consistently superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability in all of your pump applications. Written by two practicing engineers whose combined 80-year working careers included all conceivable facets of pumping technology, this handbook details what facilities must do to rapidly accomplish superior performance and low life-cycle cost for pumps of all types and sizes. Aimed at operating technicians, maintenance professionals, project engineers, reliability engineers and managers, the book is intended for every job function that comes in contact with process pumps. Utilities, power generation facilities, pulp and paper plants, consumer product manufacturers, pharmaceutical plants, mining operations, chemical and petrochemical plants, municipal works, oil and gas pipelines, and oil refineries are among those that can significantly profit from implementing the guidelines described in this unique, experience-based text.