Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension, 3rd Edition

Aimed at operating technicians, maintenance professionals, project engineers, reliability engineers and managers, with focus on how you can achieve consistently superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability in all of your pump applications. The third edition includes updates on straight-pipe requirements upstream of pump suction nozzles, details on temporary suction strainers, control strategies, detailed explanations and fully illustrated coverage of all API seal plans in use today, and case studies in mechanical seal upgrading. The demonstrated vulnerability of traditional oil slinger rings is contrasted against the sound rationale of solid oil flinger discs widely used in Europe. Small-scale oil mist lubrication units are highlighted and new field-installed pump vibration limits tabulated. A large segment of the text gives details on combining pump maintenance with systematic upgrading.