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A fine line rests between getting a process on-line and keeping a process on line. While pumps represent the second in population of plant process equipment; only lead by electric motors, it appears as their neglected when it comes to proper application and selection. Getting a pump on-line; and it's ability to remain on-line, are only separated by addressing the cause; not the symptoms, of a pre-mature failure. Following are likes to products and services; which, through continuing education will raise the skills of maintenance and engineering in an effort to increase process efficiency and equipment life. A vast majority of pumps are destined to failure from conception. The keys to application success include good communications between all parties involved in the process, understanding of basic hydraulic principles and various pump designs, and the ability not to include mere assumptions.

Process & Industrial Training Technologies, Inc. DVD based educational packages addressing positive displacement and centrifugal pump principles, viscous behavior characteristics, fluid flow fundamentals, hydraulic phenomena, and the pump application, selection process.

 

Professional, Technical & Engineering Resources: A grouping of books and CD -Rom educational and reference materials relating to chemical, process and maintenance engineering available through "Process Pumps & Filtration On-Line".

 

National Engineering Information Network: The purpose of the National Engineering Information Network is to electronically link all the current and future providers of engineering information so that data can be shared. The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is an active participant in this information initiative.