Process Pump Selection
A Systems Approach
2. Edition October 1999
226 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This fully revised and up-dated Second Edition of the highly
successful Process Pump Selection eases the daunting task
that faces a process industries' engineer employed in the process
industries and responsible for the specification, selection, and
purchase of process equipment. This volume provides essential
guidelines, based on the operational experience of large numbers of
plumbing installations over many years on a diverse range of duties
and process plants.
Process Pump Selection: A Systems Approach will be an
invaluable source of information for engineers and others working
for user organizations in the process and service sector
industries. It will not only be of great assistance to engineers
faced with the specification, selection, and procurement of pumps,
but will also provide pump manufacturers with a great insight into
the problems facing pump users and plant designers.
COMPLETE CONTENTS:
* Pump specification and selection
* Positive displacement pumps: reciprocating metering
* Positive displacement pumps: reciprocating special purpose
* Positive displacement pumps: rotary
* Centrifugal pumps
* Centrifugal pumps: special purpose and multistage
* Common points
* Sealing considerations
* Pump and system combined
* Appendices
* Index
Preface.
Notation.
Chapter 1. Pump specification and selection.
Chapter 2. Positive displacement pumps: reciprocating
metering.
Chapter 3. Positive displacement pumps: reciprocating special
purpose.
Chapter 4. Positive displacement pumps: rotary.
Chapter 5. Centrifugal pumps.
Chapter 6. Centrifugal pumps: special purpose and
multistage.
Chapter 7. Common points.
Chapter 8. Sealing considerations.
Addendum. Pump and system combined.
Appendices.
Appendix I. Symbols and preferred units.
Appendix II. Reliability classification.
Appendix III. Rheology definitions.
Appendix IV. Data sheets.
Index.
spent three years studying in the United States, first at the
University of Kansas and then at Massachusettes Institute of
Technology, where he was awarded a Masters Degree in Industrial
Management. He was commissioned in REME on his return to the UK and
spent two years in Germany.
Otto von Bertele graduated as an Electrical Engineer
before joining ICI Agricultural Division as an Instrument Engineer.
He had various appointments on the plant and in design, including
the leadership of the vibration section, before specializing on
large compressors, their drivers, and their lubrication
systems.
