The course will feature:

• Positive displacement pumps
• Centrifugal pumps
• Cavitation
• Pump components
• Pump installation & selection
• Pipe connections & systems
• Pipe stresses
• Fluid flow in pipes
• Pump & pipe condition monitoring
• Maintenance of pumps & pipe systems

The course will feature:

• Positive displacement pumps
• Centrifugal pumps
• Cavitation
• Pump components
• Pump installation & selection
• Pipe connections & systems
• Pipe stresses
• Fluid flow in pipes
• Pump & pipe condition monitoring
• Maintenance of pumps & pipe systems

Mechanical Engineers, General Supervisors, Consulting Engineers, Design Engineers, Foremen, Supervisors, Technicians, Maintenance Personnel, Engineers of all disciplines, Supervisors, Team Leaders and Professionals in Maintenance, Engineering and Production Managers, Maintenance Personnel, Heads of Maintenance and Operation, Chemical Engineers, Equipment Specialists, Technical Engineers, Operation Engineers, Planning Engineers, Process Engineers, Reliability Specialists, Boiler Plant Construction Managers, Consulting Engineers, Design Engineers, Insurance Company Inspectors, Operation, Maintenance, Inspection and Repair Managers, Supervisors and Engineers, Plant Engineers, Senior Boiler Plant Operators, Repairers and Installers, Project Engineers and Technologists, Facility Engineers, Consultants, Mechanical Engineers and Technologists, Maintenance and Operation Personnel, Plant/Facility Engineers, Technicians, Maintainers, Operators, Chemical Engineers & Technologists, Process Engineers & Technologists, Project Engineers & Technologists, Technicians & Supervisors who need to be familiar with the fundamentals associated with pumps and pipe systems, Plant & Facilities Operations Personnel Technicians & Supervisors responsible for plants and facilities, Stationary Engineers, Consultants & Contractors, Personnel in the food, chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, water utility and energy industries will find this course of particular interest

Introduction & General Information

• Fluid characteristics
• Inertia pressure and jet force
• Fluid flow in pipes
• Fluid pressure & velocity relationships
• Valves - types and valve actuators
• Filters and strainers
• Properties of materials
• Welding practices & processes
• Lubrication - oils & greases, viscosity

Regulations, Codes and Standards

Positive Displacement Pumps

• Reciprocating: piston, plunger & diaphragm pumps
• Rotating: gear, lobe, screw, vane, progressive cavity & peristaltic pumps

Centrifugal Pumps

• Pressure & velocity relationships
• Impellers
• Performance curves
• System head
• Efficiency

Affinity Laws

• Series and parallel operation
• Flow control

Cavitation

• Vaporization, internal recirculation and air ingestion
• Net positive suction head

Pump Components

• Seals
• Ball and journal bearings
• Motors
• Pump/motor couplings
• Variable speed drives
• Belt drives
• Magnetic drive pumps

Pump Condition Monitoring

• Flow
• Pressure
• Temperature
• Level
• Vibration
• Oil analysis

General Operating Considerations

• Potential pump problems

Pump Preventive Maintenance Program

• Pump operating and maintenance costs
• Economic decision making

Pump Installation

• Supply tank suction
• Suction piping
• Discharge piping
• Foundations

Pump Selection

• Positive displacement versus centrifugal pumps
• Centrifugal pump types
• Selection considerations
• API pump codes

Piping: General Overview of Industrial Piping

• Pipe uses and designations
• Pipe sizes
• Pipe weights             
• Pipe manufacture
• Pipe supply                

Pipe Connections

• Fittings
• Joints – welded, bolted and threaded
• Gaskets

Pipes as Structures

• Theory of simple bending    
• Basis of pipe stress code formulas

Common Pipe Regulations, Codes and Standards: Pipe Stresses & Code Formulas

• Sustained loads
• Occasional loads - wind, snow, ice, earthquake, vibration, water hammer, impact loads
• Thermal effects
• Pipe flexibility

Piping Systems

• Pipe supports 
• Insulation and heat tracing

Piping Systems Design Layouts

• P & I D’s
• Pipe flexibility
• Layout considerations

Fluid Flow in Pipes

• Types of flow
• Losses in pipes
• Transition losses
• Pipes in series and parallel
• Two phase flow

Inspection and Maintenance of Pipe Systems

• Erosion & corrosion
• Thermography
• Non-destructive examination
• Ice plugs
• Development of preventive maintenance program

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.

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