Centrifugal Pumps

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Course Times: 8:00am - 4:30pm

Number of Days: 2

Continuing Education Units (CEU): 1.4

Course Description:

• Learn the inside information on why and how pumps are designed.
• Examines all of the elements of centrifugal pumps.
• Topics will cover how pumps work and how to calculate energy costs for your pump.
• The real design differences between major pump types.
• Plus how to properly install, care for, and troubleshoot a pump.

Course Benefits:

• Increase operating efficiency.
• Lower your energy costs.
• Reduce unscheduled downtime.
• Minimizes losses in production.

What You Will Learn:

• How pumps perform .
• How to read pump curves.
• How specific speed governs pump designs.
• What suction specific speed is.
• The real design differences between major pump types.
• How to read pump curves and understand the real importance of system curves.
• What recirculation is.
• How important shaft deflection is .
• How to calculate energy costs for your pumps .
• Exactly what makes up a pump’s total discharge head requirement.
• Pump terminology .
• How to properly install pumps .
• How to care for bearings.
• How to start up a new pump.
• How to troubleshoot mechanical seal failures.
• What causes wear.
• How to deal with air entrainment.
• The difference between closed and open pumping systems.

Continuing Education Credit

This course is authorized to grant 1.4 Continuing Education Units. CEU award certificates, personalized with each registrant's name, will be provided to those attending at the end of each seminar.

Sponsor Background:

National Technology Transfer, Inc. (NTT) is the nation's leading industrial technical training company. Since 1984, we have trained more than half a million people in numerous industries. Many of our clients are Fortune 500 companies who receive enterprise-wide training, but we also provide training options for small to medium-sized businesses and individuals.

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