P Series Pumps Exceed API 675 Performance Standards In 1994, the American Petroleum Institute (API) adapted its Standard 675 to stipulate performance characteristics for controlled-volume, positive displacement pumps. Although revised […]
The Push to Make Airports Green Spurred on by the promise of energy savings and reduced operating costs, America’s airports are taking a hard look at their equipment and procedures […]
Reduced Pulsations Improve Operation Pulsing, surging flow from traditional metering pumps can produce greater strain on the system and more wear and tear on the pump. Hydra-Cell features a multiple-diaphragm […]
Manufacturers of variable frequency drives (VFDs) recommend that you perform something called an Auto-tune. Why is that? What is that? It isn’t anything scary or complicated. It simply helps the […]
The Greening of America’s Buildings The growing green movement has led to a flood of new standards including the US Greens Building Councils Building Performance Initiative, the Green Building Initiative, […]
Centrifugal and axial compressors are some of the most critical components used within a process plant to handle gases. These machines impart energy to the process fluid, helping to create […]
Dan Biby learned it all the hard way. An ordeal concerning several inverter-controlled pump motors with bearing damage made him a believer in the need for shaft grounding. Killer Shaft […]
Take Action Today To Improve Your Pump System Are you properly tracking in-feeds, flows, pressure and viscosity, process efficiency and changes to the pumping subsystem over time? Early fault detection […]
Pumping System Reliability is Critical Pumps and pumping systems account for 25% of the energy consumed by electric motors in the United States. In pumping intensive industries, this number is […]
Reducing energy consumption, costs and emissions in the iron and steel industry The iron and steel industry emits 2.3 Gt of CO2 per year, which amounts to 7% of total […]
Variable frequency drives (VFDs) have advanced in capability and function, providing more system control to help eliminate external devices and integrate with programmable logic controllers (PLCs). In most cases, the […]