| Reliable Pumps and Piping Systems for Power Plants |
Description
This workshop teaches the techniques you'll need to reduce and ultimately eliminate mysterious pump failure and repetitive pump maintenance. Too many power plant pumps are maintenance headaches. Wouldn't it be nice if power plant pumps could operate numerous years with minimal attention? It is possible.
Think about the radiator water pump on your car or the compressor on your refrigerator. When did you last change the mechanical seal or bearings on these pumps? When did these pumps last suffer a catastrophic failure?
The seals, and bearings on your car's radiator pump are not higher tech and quality than a boiler feed water pump at work. The lubrication on the fridge compressor is not better than the lube on the bearings of your condensate recirculation pumps. These pumps in your home and car give better service because they are correctly mated to their systems. It's that simple.
Certainly, a few pumps at work run for years without problems. But too many power plant pumps suffer mysterious failures. These high maintenance pumps stall production and increase the operational costs with their continual seal and bearing failures.
Low maintenance power plant pumps are correctly mated with their system(s). It starts with design and application. This workshop was developed for junior and experienced engineers working in reliability, maintenance, production and process.
Corporate managers often site pumps and runaway maintenance as they strive to reduce operational costs. Come to this workshop and learn how to do something about it. This workshop is taught in plain street English and is geared towards engineers, supervisors and key technical people.
Workshop Outline
Morning: Pump Principles and Curves
- Critical events that lead to pump maintenance
- How the Engineer knows a pump is correctly mated to the system
- Is the pump starved?
- Design modifications to avoid cavitation
- Instrumentation for pump reliability
- Curve Interpretation & operation "off-the-curve"
- Using the curve to predict maintenance problems
Afternoon: Piping Systems
- System curve development and components
- Plotting the system curve with the pump curve
- Pitfalls of resistance formulas and tables
- Measuring actual resistance on the pipes and fittings
- Designing a new pump into a planned (non-existing) system
- Designing a replacement pump into an already existing system
- Optimal system design for variable speed pumps.
- Mating parallel and series pumps into their systems
- How incorrect piping affects pump maintenance
About the Instructor
Larry Bachus - The Pump Guy
Larry Bachus has almost 30-years experience working with industrial pumps. His areas of expertise include diagnosing pump problems and seal failures. Larry is highly regarded for his 'hands on' personalized consulting and actively pursues pump-upgrading projects all over the hemisphere. He has been instrumental in stopping leaks and seal failure and improving the operating time of industrial pumps. He has taught pump and seal improvement courses at many major plants and industries all over the world.
Larry began his work career as a pump mechanic apprentice in a southern steel mill. He continued working on pumps while serving the U-S Navy. After completing his military service, Larry graduated from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He worked selling and installing pumps and ran his own pump rebuild shop.
Larry developed a tool that broke the code on identification of rubber compounds used in o-rings and other seals and gaskets. Today this tool is the standard in the industry. It is exported all over the world and is used by hundreds of thousands of mechanics and technicians to avoid accidents and spills of liquids and gases. This tool is purchased and used by every major industrial pump, seal, hydraulic, pneumatic and instrumentation manufacturer in the world. It is also popular in aviation maintenance.
Larry also developed a product that resolves various operational problems and stresses in pumps. He is an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers-ASME.
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