A valuable reference, Pump User's Handbook: Life Extension explains just how and why the best-of-class pump users are consistently achieving superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability. The book conveys, in detail, what must be done to rapidly accomplish best-of-class performance and low life cycle cost. Simply put, the text explains what exactly needs to be done if a facility wants to progress from being a one, two, or three year pump MTBF plant, and wishes to join the leading money-making facilities that today achieve a demonstrated pump MTBF of 8.6 years. Written by two practicing engineers whose combined 80-year working career included all conceivable facets of pumping technology, book provides experience-based details, data, guidance, direction, explanations, and firm recommendations. Implementing what this text explains will allow a plant to move from yesterday's demonstrably unprofitable and costly repair focus to tomorrow's absolutely necessary reliability focus. Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Pump System Life Cycle Cost Reduction; Chapter 2 How to Buy a Better Pump; Chapter 3 Piping, Baseplate, Installation, and Foundation Issues; Chapter 4 Operating Efficiency Improvement Considerations; Chapter 5 Improved Pump Hydraulic Selection Extends Pump Life; Chapter 6 Improvements Leadina to Pump Mechanical Maintenance Cost Reduction; Chapter 7 Bearings in Centrifugal Pumps*; Chapter 8 Mechanical Seal Selection and Application; Chapter 9 Inproved Lubrication and Lubricant Application. "This reference book explains just how and why the best-of-class pump users are consistently achieving superior run lengths, low maintenance expenditures, and unexcelled safety and reliability. Written by two practicing engineers whose combined 80-year working career included all conceivable facets of pumping technology, this book conveys, in detail, what facilities must do to rapidly accomplish best-of-class performance and low life cycle cost 1-Pump System Life Cycle Cost Reduction 2-How to Buy Better Pumps for New Installations 3-Installation Issues 4-Operating Efficiency Improvement Options 5-Hydraulic Selection and its Effect on Maintenance Cost 6-Mechanical Maintenance Cost Improvements 7- Mechanical Seal Selection and Application Strategies 8-Rolling. The September 11, 2001 attack on Manhattan's Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a rural field in southwestern Pennsylvania is the most widely known and recognized example of disaster-in the form of terrorism-in history. The primary objective of life cycle costing is to evaluate and/or optimize product life cost while satisfying specified performance, safety, reliability, accessibility maintainability, and other requirements.
