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9^th Annual Pumps Theory-and-Hands-on Maintenance and Reliability Conference

PumpTec-2012: Atlanta, GA, September 12-13, 2012

(followed by the Vibration Institute Learning Session on September 14)

www.PumpConference.com

Sponsored and Organized by U.S. Technology Center of Pumping Machinery and Empowering Pumps Publishing

in consortium with leading pumps’ and pump-related equipment manufacturers and suppliers

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Conference for engineering, maintenance, operating and management professionals from: Water and Wastewater municipalities, Power Plants, Chemical Plants, HVAC, Pulp and Paper mills, and General pump-related affiliations.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

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.

Program Objective: to provide Plant Maintenance, Reliability and Engineering professionals working with pumps with a “rapid-deployment” - hands-on training exercises, specifically designed to reinforce pump theory, applications and pump repair and maintenance techniques. Industries involved: power generation, water and wastewater, chemical and petrochemical plants, hydrocarbon processing, paper mills, marine and navy, and general industries. Practical and pragmatic training for a pump novice, and an excellent refresher for the old-timers.

Wednesday, September 12

8:15 – 8:45 Opening Address: looking for a candidate

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 centrifugal pumps. Learn to read and interpret pump performance curves, head-capacity, efficiency, power, impeller trim effect on performance, affinity laws NPSH, cavitation/recirculation issues. Design features evaluation, applications, troubleshooting methods, hands-on performance testing of two sample pumps operating in parallel mode and plotting performance curves

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 Jamie Baran, 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 1970’s 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)

· Fundamentals of alignment: straight edge, dial indicators, laser

· Pumping-to-pump alignment

· Motor-to-pump alignment

· Overall vibration level limits versus FFT spectral analysis; interpretation of amplitude-frequency versus amplitude-time wave form

· Field case examples

5:00 – 6:30 Reception

Thursday, September 13

8:00 – 12:00: Session #6 “Positive Displacement Pumps” - Jim Brennan, IMO (Colfax) Pump Group: multiple screw pumps; Todd Kierstead, Allweiler (Colfax) Pump Group: progressing cavity pumps; Chad Wunderlich, Viking (IDEX) Pump Group: gear pumps; Gerald DaBoub, Boerger Pumps: lobe pumps; Rich Owens, Vogelsang Pumps: Macerators / Grinders; Jamie Baran, ClydeUnion Pumps: reciprocating pumps

· 3-screw pumps

· progressing cavity pumps

· gear pumps: applications

· lobe pumps: standard and specialty applications

· grinders and macerators for tough processes

· reciprocating pumps

· design feature comparison and hands-on assembly work; viscous versus thin-fluid pumping; reliability and troubleshooting procedures

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

· Numerical approximation of pump head versus flow

· Numerical approximation of pump efficiency versus flow

· Numerical approximation of pump head versus flow for different specific speeds

· Numerical approximation of drooping head curve

· Numerical solution of operating point on monotonically decreasing pump head curve

· Numerical solution of operating point on drooping pump head curve

· Numerical solution of pump speed to achieve desired operating condition

· Changes to pump operating point following power failure

· Changes to pump operating point following downstream valve closure

· 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,

· 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

www.PumpConference.com

Cost:

Attendee: $400 (early bird, before April 1) / $500 (after April 1)

Exhibitor/Sponsor: $800 (early bird, before April 1) / $1000 (after April 1), 6-foot display table provided

For technical information, or questions to the Advisory Committee, contact Dr. L. Nelik, P.E., at:

Phone: 770-310-0866

DrPump@PumpingMachinery.com

www.PumpingMachinery.com

PumpTec-2012 Advisory Committee:

Dr. Lev Nelik, P.E., Pumping Machinery, LLC, Pump-Tec Conference Chairman

Michael Bixon, Israeli Electric Power Company (Hevrat Hashmal) – Power Generation section

Jim Brennan, (retired) Imo Pump (Colfax Pump Group) – Rotary Screw Pumps section

Charlie Cappellino, Goulds Pump – Centrifugal Pumps section

Scott Champlin, Pumping Solutions, Inc. – Pump Distributors section

Gerald DaBoub, Boerger, LLC – Rotary Pumps section

Lori Ditoro, Pumps & Systems Magazine – Media section

Rasmus Dorrington, Colonial Pipeline – End User Perspectives

Joe Evans, PumpTech, Inc. – Systems Perspective

Roy Forson, Imerys Performance Minerals – Bearings & Lubrication

Jamie Baran, 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

Mike Koehane, VibrAlign – Vibrations & Alignment section

John Martin, Safety Consultant – Safety section

John Ondrejack, Flowserve - Municipal Pump Applications section

Hiram Tanner, DC WASA – Municipalities, Water and Wastewater Treatment section

Harry Urban, Water and Wastewater Digest magazine, Media sector

John Visotsky – Vibrations & Alignment section

John Waddington, City of Atlanta Water and Waste Water Treatment – Municipal Sector section

Chad Wunderlich, Viking Pump (Idex) – Rotary Gear Pumps section

Steve Young, MRC/SKF Bearings – Bearings and Lubrication section

Merat Zarreii, DeKalb County, Atlanta, Municipalities, Water and Wastewater Treatment section

CONFERENCE SPONSORS (and the list is growing!) – Future of Technology and Innovation:

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Organized and sponsored by

Empowering Pumps and Pumping Machinery, LLC