The 15 page Executive Summary of  Variable Speed Pumping: A Guide to Successful Applications  is the result of a collaboration between the Hydraulic Institute (HI), Europump and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Executive Summary provides useful highlights that are explained in great detail in the 150 page Guide.

Executive Summary Table of Contents: 

• Introduction to Variable Speed Pumping
• Pumping Systems Overview
• Selection Process — New Systems
• Selection Process — Retrofitting to Existing Equipment
• Benefits of VSDs
• Potential Drawbacks of VSDs
• Estimating Pumping Energy Costs
• Capital Cost Savings
• Financial Justification
• Examples: Variable Speed Drives Fitted on a PrimaryFeed Pump and Product Transfer Pump in a Refinery

The Executive Summary is also available in hard copy in minimum copies of ten (10) each. These can be useful for inexpensively conveying the important key messages about variable speed pumping to groups of individuals or larger audiences.

The complete Variable Speed Pumping: A Guide to Successful Applications brings together all you need to know to design, specify and operate successful variable-speed pumping systems - all in one amazingly comprehensive volume. It shows you, step-by-step, how to take a system approach to incorporating VSDs into applications.