One of the key aspects of a hydronic mechanical system is the pump. If the pump isn’t designed or selected correctly, the entire system will not function. Using general principles and rules of thumb ...

Pump and Abrasion Technologies® (PAT) unveiled their new CURVE™ range of pumps in September 2016. A prominent South African Ferrochrome plant was among the first companies to adopt this new technology ...

Boiler feed pumps (BFPs) play a major role in the capacity and heat rate of a power-generating unit. As such, they merit routine performance testing to assess their condition and trend deficiencies to ...

Typically, when talk turns to power plant pumps, boiler feed and cooling water pumps immediately dominate the discussion. And that’s as it should be: these pumps are critical to a plant’s thermal ...

A German power plant experienced premature wear and excessive seal corrosion in its boiler feed circuit and flue gas desulfurization slurry pumps. By upgrading the performance of the pump seals and ...

Based on a presentation to the 57th Southwestern Petroleum Short Course, Lubbock, Tex., Apr. 26-29, 2010. As shown with a nodal analysis, the use of wellhead chokes on electrical submersible-pumped ...

If your facility has recently seen an upsurge in bearing failures on boiler feedwater (BFW) pumps, you are not the only plant experiencing these unnecessary and costly failures. The failure causes are ...