Are you a professional who wants to boost your career prospects? Perhaps you need a better way to bring new hires up to speed. Or maybe you want to teach your team to apply a consistent set of best practices to pump system assessment and optimization.
Assessing pump systems periodically may well be one of the most important investments facilities managers can make. That’s because this strategy can provide a substantial return on investment.
Michael Michaud, executive director of North America’s Hydraulic Institute (HI), talks standards, training, energy efficiency, the challenge of recruiting technical talent, and the importance of pumps.
When it comes to optimizing pumping systems, the piping and additional end-use equipment are just as important as the pump itself. Here are eight ways you can assess your piping system’s configuration to minimize life-cycle costs.
For Rafiq Qutub pumps were love at first sight. Both his parents were civil engineers and so were his uncles. Qutub enjoyed math and science at school, but what really got him hooked on pumps was seeing them in action.
When most people think of agriculture, they do not think of pumps. Yet upgrading the nation’s irrigation system’s 600,000 pumps to more energy efficient models and using underground pipes could slash energy use in half.
There are several reasons why engineers typically oversize pumps when designing hydraulic systems. First, they want to build in a margin of error to accommodate uncertainties or changes in design or as facilities evolve. Second, engineers know that fouling, rust, sediment, and increased internal running clearances will reduce performance over time.
The Hydraulic Institute and Europump collaborated on the publication of Application Guideline for Variable Speed Pumping, which assists VSP end users and system integrators in the proper selection, specification, installation, control and operation of VSP equipment.
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