Beyond the wheel, the most important mechanical equipment serving humanity is the centrifugal pump. Centrifugal pumps make modern quality of life possible. Turn on a faucet and a centrifugal turbine ...

Pump systems must be designed to meet the needs of specific processes, including preventing cross-contamination and damage due to shear forces. In a biopharmaceutical process, pumps are needed to move ...

Your new apparatus committee has spent a lot of time sorting through details to come up with a good specification for a proposed new engine. This includes a requirement for a midship-mounted fire pump ...

Centrifugal pumps are the most common pumps in a process plant. Despite their pivotal role in operations, however, they are often the plant's least understood and most inefficiently operated equipment ...

Today’s most common biopharmaceutical manufacturing systems require the handling, transferring, processing, and purification of large-molecule drugs produced in living cells—cultured animal cells, ...

As addressed in an earlier article of this series, centrifugal pumps are the most common pumps in a process plant, and an operator’s understanding of how these systems work often will impact how much ...

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group has launched MSPP 210, a new multistage process pump designed to enhance safety and reduce downtime on air separation equipment.

Danfoss Power Solutions has released its most advanced Vickers by Danfoss medium-pressure axial piston pump. Initially ...

Learning the basics can ease loop tuning frustration and ensure stability. During plant operations, it seems that tuning control loops is an ongoing task, which can be a continual frustration to ...