By Michael Volk
This hands-on reference bargains a realistic advent to pumps and offers the instruments essential to pick out, measurement, function, and keep pumps thoroughly. It highlights the interrelatedness of pump engineering from method and piping layout to deploy and startup.
This up to date moment version expands on many matters brought within the first version and likewise offers new in-depth dialogue of pump couplings, o-rings, vehicles, variable frequency drives, pump life-cycle rate, corrosion, and pump minimal flow.
Written via an acclaimed specialist within the box, Pump features and purposes, moment version is a useful day by day reference for mechanical, civil, chemical, commercial, layout, plant, undertaking, and platforms engineers; engineering supervisors; upkeep technicians; and plant operators. it's also an exceptional textual content for upper-level undergraduate and graduate scholars in departments of mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering expertise, or engineering technology.
About the Author
Michael W. Volk, P.E., is President of Volk & affiliates, Inc., Oakland, California (www.volkassociates.com), a consulting corporation focusing on pumps and pump structures. Volk's prone comprise pump education seminars; pump apparatus overview, troubleshooting, and box checking out; professional witness for pump litigation; witnessing of pump store exams; pump marketplace examine; and acquisition and divestiture session and brokerage. A member of the yank Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a registered expert engineer, Volk acquired the B.S. measure (1973) in mechanical engineering from the collage of Illinois, Urbana, and the M.S. measure (1976) in mechanical engineering and the M.S. measure (1980) in administration technological know-how from the collage of Southern California, la.
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IV. CLASSIFICATION OF PUMPS There are many ways to classify pumps: according to their function, their conditions of service, materials of construction, etc. 3. This classification divides pumps as follows: A. Principle of Energy Addition The first classification is according to the principle by which energy is added to the liquid. There are two broad classes of pumps, defined below. 1. Kinetic In a kinetic pump, energy is continuously added to the liquid to increase its velocity. When the liquid velocity is subsequently reduced, this produces a pressure increase.
It is necessary to increase the pressure of a liquid to move the liquid through a piping system and overcome frictional losses. Liquid moving through a system of pipes, valves, and fittings experiences frictional losses along the way. These losses vary with the geometry and material of the pipe, valves, and fittings, with the viscosity and density of the liquid, and with the flow rate. © 2005 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Introduction to Pumps 3 3. Pressure. In some systems it is necessary to increase the pressure of the liquid for process reasons.
Friction. It is necessary to increase the pressure of a liquid to move the liquid through a piping system and overcome frictional losses. Liquid moving through a system of pipes, valves, and fittings experiences frictional losses along the way. These losses vary with the geometry and material of the pipe, valves, and fittings, with the viscosity and density of the liquid, and with the flow rate. © 2005 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Introduction to Pumps 3 3. Pressure. In some systems it is necessary to increase the pressure of the liquid for process reasons.
