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Take Care of Your Pumps And They'll Take Care of You

From Fluid Components Intl. (FCI)
 

 

The old saying, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of care" may have been coined by process and plant engineers tired of repairing or replacing pumps. Pumps are often the most under serviced pieces of equipment in process automation when it comes to maintenance and prevention best practices. Unfortunately, nothing moves without the humble pump and a process becomes inefficient when they don't operate properly or completely shutdown. Many times the pump manufacturer is seen to be the problem, when in fact the process or the surrounding equipment configuration is the cause.

Product Announcements
Watson Marlow Pumps Group - Heavy Duty Process Pumps with a 5 year warranty
For pumping harsh fluids nothing beats a peristaltic pump; and there's none better than Watson-Marlow Bredel. Ideal pumps for metering and transfer, peristaltic pumps, which are positive displacement... (read more)
Fluid Components Intl. (FCI) - FLT Pump Protection Flow Switch Cuts Maintenance
The advanced FlexSwitch® FLT Pump Protection Flow Switch from Fluid Components International (FCI) improves process control by adding an extra margin-of-safety, which keeps pumps running longer and... (read more)
Hayward Flow Control Systems - Y-Check Valves
Hayward Y-Check Valves prevent reversal of flow in piping systems. They are ideal where backflow could potentially cause damage to pumps, filters or process equipment. (read more)
Gorman-Rupp Industries - Peristaltic Pumps
Peristaltic pumps operate on a positive displacement principle. Because there are few moving parts and no valves or seals, peristaltic pumps are virtually maintenance free. No tools or disassembly is... (read more)
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum USA Inc. - Leybold Customer Care
Export, PA, April 2005 – Leybold Vacuum USA has again expanded its service offering to now include an even more comprehensive approach to vacuum pump service support. The Leybold Customer Care... (read more)
ITT Water & Wastewater - Flygt Products - Small Pumps Fix Big Problems
Explore ways to fix the big, expensive problems caused by weak links in a wastewater plant's process chain. (read more)
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum USA Inc. - All Vacuum Pump Brand Repairs and Trade-In Program
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum provides all brands vacuum pump repair services. If you prefer, your old vacuum pump may also be traded through our Trade-In Program regardless of brand. A trade value is... (read more)
 
Topics of Interest
Pumps are all too frequently one of the most overlooked and abused pieces of equipment in process automation, yet nothing moves without them and a process becomes inefficient when they don't operate... (Read More)
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In today's complex and frequently rugged process plant environments, liquid pumps are often over-worked and under-protected from adverse operating conditions. Many pumps run nearly non-stop 24-hours a... (Read More)
The creation of small, portable infusion pumps opened a new chapter in medical care. A patient can receive carefully metered and timed doses of medicine, without requiring a visit to the medical... (Read More)
The hydraulic geometry or shape of a pump stage can in principle be chosen for given values of the other independent variables in Eqs. 34 or 35 so as to optimize the resulting performance; for... (Read More)