(click
to see photos from PumpTec-2011)
Location:
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Hotel Name |
Holiday
Inn Atlanta (Perimeter/Dunwoody) |
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Address |
4386
Chamblee Dunwoody Road |
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Phone:
770-457-6363 |
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Room Rate |
$99 single / $99 double |
8th Annual Pumps Theory-and-Hands-on Maintenance
and Reliability Conference
PumpTec-8: Atlanta, GA, September 21-22,
2011
(followed by the Vibration Institute Learning Session on
September 23) 
Sponsored
and Organized by
in consortium with
leading pumps and pump-related equipment manufacturers and suppliers
(click here to view photos from PumpTec-2011-Atlanta)
(click here to view photos from
PumpTec-2010-Atlanta)
(click here to view photos from
PumpTec-2010-May-Chicago)
(click here to view photos from
PumpTec-2009-Atlanta)
(click here to view
photos from PumpTec-2008-Atlanta)
(click here to view photos from
PumpTec-2007-Atlanta)
(click here to view photos from
PumpTec-2006-Atlanta)
(click here to view photos from
PumpTec-2005-Atlanta)
Conferen
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW 
PUMPS
· Training
on a variety of pump types, styles and makes
· Technical,
lots of hands-on, and busy
· See the
pumps at the internals, attend hands-on training sessions
· Assemble
pumps, learn pumps troubleshooting methods
· Equipment
reliability improvement techniques and life extension
· Efficiency
improvements and energy savings methods
· Gain new
skills, and leave having gained real knowledge, ready to implement at your
facility and in your career
Each attendee will receive a Certificate of Attendance and
Graduation with 1.6 Continuing Education
Units (CEU) to qualify for 16
Professional Development Hours (PDH) needed to fulfill Professional Engineers continuing education requirements in
many states.
Program training is also certified by several agencies, including
Georgia Secretary of State Board of
Examiners for Certification of Water and
Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators with an official Continuing Education Course Number
CE-12-0610-NELIK-013112-0001 (12 points); Energy
and Environment Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Department of
Environmental Protection, Course ID #7113 (12 Continuing Education
Hours), and other agencies.
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Wednesday, September 21
8:15 8:45 Opening Address:
John Eaves, CEO, Fulton County Energy, Efficiency, and Reliability: Challenges for Our Communities
Hiram L. Tanner, District of Columbias Water and Sewer
Authority (WASA, Washington DC) - Keeping It Flowing
8:45 9:30 Session #1 End-Suction Centrifugal Pumps: (Lev Nelik, Pumping Machinery, LLC)
o Theory and hands-on,
re-assembly of single-stage end suction ANSI
9:30 10:30 Session #2 Submersible
(wet and dry) Pumps: (John Ondrejack, Flowserve,
Municipal Group, and Glenn House, Carter & Verplanck )
o Hands-on re-assembly
of a submersible pump. Rotor assembly, design variations and effects on
reliability
o wet versus dry types
o installation
pointers and application examples
10:30 11:30 Session #3 High
Pressure Pumps: Centrifugal (multi-stage) versus Reciprocating Considerations: (Ron Hayes, Torishima Pumps and Bob Guiney, ClydeUnion Pumps)
o Application and
system considerations of selecting centrifugal versus positive displacement
pump. Design variations and effects on reliability and energy
o Horizontally-split,
vertically-split multi-stage centrifugals
o Minimum flow by-pass
requirements
o Boiler Feed
applications at power generation plants, refinery and pipeline applications
11:30 1:30 Luncheon with a Tour: a tour of Fulton County large Wastewater
Plant and neighboring DeKalb County Municipality Raw Water Intake Pump
Stations. Attendees will enjoy a tour to see the pumps, motors, controls and
operation. Fulton and DeKalb new stations are brand new (300 MGD), and the old
DeKalb station (190 MGD) provides a good comparison between old and new
technologies. These stations are not far from the Conference Site and are on
Holcomb Bridge Road and the Chattahoochee River. The original DeKalb pump
station was constructed in 1942 to allow DeKalb County to pump raw water from
the Chattahoochee River to Scott Candler water plant. This station originally
had 3 DeLaval Split case horizontal pumps; later in
the early 1970s three Peerless vertical turbine two stage 1750 HP pumps were
added. The new station has many innovations including an automatic sand removal
system, dual flow traveling screens and six 2750 HP Goulds
Vertical Turbine 60 MGD pumps.
Organized by the
Advisory Committee member, Mr. Merat Zareii, DeKalb County
Watershed Management, and Kevin Miller, Fulton County Watershed Management.
1:30 3:15 Session #4 Bearings
and Lubrications (Steve Young, MRC / SKF Bearings and Roy Forson, Imerys Minerals and Michael
Litke, Timken Bearings)
- Bearing failure modes
(skidding, preload, overheating)
- Lubrication methods (grease,
oil, mist)
- Fits and Clearances:
shaft-to-ID, OD-to-housing, balls versus rollers
- Anti-friction versus
hydrodynamic lubrication
- Fundamentals of Lubrication
- How lubricants work
- Additives and what they do
- Oil Analysis and Interpretation
- EHL (Elasto-hydrodynamic Lubrication)
and why it is important to bearings and gears
- Synthetic Lubrication
- Proper lubrication of bearings and couplings
- Storage and Handling of lubricants
3:15 5:00 Sessions #5 Alignment
and Vibrations Fundamentals (Mike Keohane, VibrAlign, and John Visotsky, Chairman of
Vibration Institute, Atlanta Chapter)
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Fundamentals of alignment: straight edge, dial indicators, laser
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Pumping-to-pump alignment
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Motor-to-pump alignment
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Overall vibration level limits versus FFT spectral analysis; interpretation
of amplitude-frequency versus amplitude-time wave form
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Field case examples
5:00 6:30 Reception
Thursday, September 22
8:00 12:00: Session #6 Positive Displacement Rotary Pumps (Jim Brennan, IMO (multiple screw pumps), Colfax
Pump Group; Todd Kierstead, Allweiler (Progressing Cavity pumps), Colfax Pump Group); Chad Wunderlich and John Petersen, Viking (Gear pumps) (IDEX Pump Group); Gerald DaBoub, Boerger, LLC (Lobe pumps)
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3-screw pumps
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progressing cavity pumps,
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gear pumps: applications
·
lobe pumps: standard and specialty applications
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design feature comparison and hands-on assembly work; viscous versus
thin-fluid pumping; reliability and troubleshooting pro
Luncheon Presentation by
Sponsors and Vendors (12:00 1:00): (5 minutes each)
1:00 2:00 Session #7 "Computational
(steady state and transient) Flow Solutions for Complex Real Pumping Systems Tom Hill, Foster Wheeler
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Numerical approximation of pump head versus flow
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Numerical approximation of pump efficiency versus flow
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Numerical approximation of pump head versus flow for
different specific speeds
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Numerical approximation of drooping head curve
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Numerical solution of operating point on monotonically
decreasing pump head curve
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Numerical solution of operating point on drooping pump
head curve
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Numerical solution of pump speed to achieve desired
operating condition
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Changes to pump operating point following power failure
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Changes to pump operating point following downstream valve
closure
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Comparison of features of hydraulic transient analysis
software
2:00 4:00 Session #8 Mechanical
Seals versus Seal-Less Pumps Frank Huntington, John Crane Inc., and Bob Courtwright, Eagle Burgmann
Industries,
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Overview of mechanical seals and packings; actual
hands-on exercise of setting
of a component seal and comparing with a cartridge seal assembly procedures
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
(Frank Huntington, John Crane Inc.) Overview of mechanical
seals and packings; actual hands-on exercise of
setting of a component seal and comparing with a cartridge seal assembly
procedures. Pros and cons versus seal-less: Mag-drive
pumps and Canned-motor pumps
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Break
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm (Bob
Courtwright, EagleBurgmann) Troubleshooting seal
failures, double seals and supply systems, new technologies to avoid dry start
failures, proper seal selection including pH and Chlorides, metallurgy, elastomers and face materials, split seal applications.
To register and for more
information: Registration Form
For technical information, or questions to the Advisory
Committee, contact Dr. L.
Phone: 770-310-0866
PumpTec-2011 Advisory Committee:
Dr.
Gerald DaBoub, Boerger, LLC Rotary Pumps section
Lori Ditoro, Pumps
& Systems Magazine Media
section
Rasmus Dorrington, Colonial
Pipeline End User
Perspectives
John Dunlap, Colonial
Pipeline End User
Perspectives
Joe Evans, PumpTech, Inc. Systems Perspective
Roy Forson, Imerys Performance Minerals Bearings & Lubrication
Brian Geegan, RuhrPumpen Vertical and
Bob Guiney, Clyde Union
Pumps High Pressure
Centrifugal and Resiprocating Pumps section
Ron Hayes, Torishima Pumps Large High Energy Centrifugal Pumps section
Tom Hill, Foster Wheeler - Computational Flow Solutions for
Complex Real Pumping Systems
Frank Huntington, John Crane
Inc. - Mechanical Seals
Todd Kierstead, Allweiler (Colfax Pump Group) Progressing Cavity Pumps section
Jim Langley, Nikkiso Pumps Seal-less (canned motor)
Pumps section
John Ondrejack, Flowserve
- Municipal Pump Applications section
Rich Owens, Vogelsang - Rotary Pumps
section
Dan Pelon, Kontro Pumps (Sundyne
Corporation) Seal-less
(mag-drive) Pumps section
Pat Prayne, Goulds Pump Centrifugal Pumps section
John Pur
Hiram Tanner, DC WASA Municipalities,
Water and Wastewater Treatment section
Harry Urban, Water and
Wastewater Digest magazine, Media sector
John Visotsky Vibrations & Alignment
section
Chad Wunderlich, Viking
Pump (Idex) Rotary Gear Pumps section
Merat Zareii, DeKalb County, Atlanta, Municipalities, Water and Wastewater Treatment section
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