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Practical Centrifugal Pumps
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Practical Centrifugal Pumps

by Paresh Girdhar, Octo Moniz
April 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
264 pages
8h 24m
English
Newnes
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9
Centrifugal pump maintenance
9.1 Introduction
The basis of centrifugal pump maintenance is a direct function of its criticality to its
application. For example, an ordinary garden water pump would not require the same kind of
attention as a boiler feed water pump in a major power plant or a firewater pump in a refinery.
The criticality of any pump equipment is based on the following criteria:
Failure can affect plant safety
Essential for plant operation and where a shutdown will curtail the process
throughput
No standby or installed spares
Large horsepower pumps
High capital cost and expensive to repair or longer repair lead ...
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ISBN: 9780080480145