Pump User's Handbook explains just how and why the best-of-class pump users consistently achieve superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability.

Features:

• Conveys in detail what facilities must do to rapidly accomplish best-of-class performance and low life cycle cost
• Explains what exactly needs to be done if a facility wants to progress from being a one, two or three-year pump MTBF plant and join the leading money-making facilities that achieve a demonstrated pump MTBF of 8.6 years
• Allows a plant to move from yesterday's demonstrably unprofitable and costly repair focus to tomorrow's absolutely necessary reliability focus
• Aimed at operating technicians, maintenance professionals, project engineers, reliability engineers and managers

Contents

1. Pump System Life Cycle Cost Reduction
2. How to Buy Better a Pump—Initial Cost Issues
3. Piping—Baseplate—Installation and Foundation Issues
4. Operating Efficiency Improvement Considerations
5. Improved Pump Hydraulic Selection Extends Pump Life
6. Improvements Leading to Mechanical Maintenance Cost Reductions
7. Bearings in Centrifugal Pumps
8. Mechanical Seal Selection and Application
9. Improved Lubrication and Lube Application
10. Oil Mist Lubrication and Storage Preservation
11. Coupling Selection Guidelines
12. Pump Condition Monitoring Guidelines
13. Pump Types and Materials
14. Pump Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting
15. Shop Repair and Spare Parts Availability and Procurement
16. Failure Statistics and Component Uptime

Index

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