A pump is an expensive piece of any water system. Maybe not the most expensive, but certainly not the least. However, only a small fraction of a pump’s lifetime costs […]
Selecting the Right Bearings to Improve Vertical Turbine Pump Reliability Vertical Turbine Pumps (VTPs) are available in a variety of configurations and are used for a number of different applications, […]
Why properly understanding and differentiating between overload and overrange helps to maintain the accuracy and longevity of the torque meter. Two easily overlooked, yet extremely critical, parameters when evaluating and […]
Business and operations systems are becoming increasingly integrated in the digital era. With accessible data and information, enhancing the business value of plants that utilize equipment for production has become […]
A digital twin represents a physical asset and its function; it contains intelligence to evaluate static and real-time data. Chemical refining plants are asset intensive and employ a wide range […]
A double-inlet, double-outlet rotary pump was designed to augment Fontan flow through the total cavopulmonary connection. Pump power is supplied by a systemic arterial shunt and radial turbine, with a […]
The study shows the design and optimization of a LOX centrifugal pump with CFturbo/CFturbo BLADERUNNER 2025.R1 for a fictional rocket engine powered by LOX/RP-1, which delivers around 250 kN thrust […]
Ishwar Dhere, Process Engineer with Stantec Resourcenet India was tasked with analyzing estimated pump head, normal operating line velocities, and pressure analysis for a new canola oil processing system. The […]
CFturbo, the conceptual Turbomachinery design code, enables engineers to design high-efficiency centrifugal pumps straightforwardly from scratch, or based on a given reference geometry. The all-new CFturbo BLADERUNNER uses Computational Fluid […]
Hydro’s software has allowed CFTurbo to improve the optimize the performance of equipment and its fit to its system to make dramatic efficiency and reliability improvements for their customers. Pumps […]
Corrective Maintenance This is performed only after a failure occurs in the equipment, which can lead to unexpected downtime and costly repairs. Although it is a less expensive approach initially, […]