Download e-book for iPad: Pump Characteristics and Applications, Second Edition by Michael Volk

This hands-on reference deals a pragmatic advent to pumps and offers the instruments essential to opt for, measurement, function, and retain pumps appropriately. It highlights the interrelatedness of pump engineering from approach and piping layout to set up and startup.

This up-to-date moment variation expands on many topics brought within the first version and likewise offers new in-depth dialogue of pump couplings, o-rings, vehicles, variable frequency drives, pump life-cycle expense, corrosion, and pump minimal flow.

Written via an acclaimed specialist within the box, Pump features and purposes, moment variation is a useful day by day reference for mechanical, civil, chemical, commercial, layout, plant, venture, and structures engineers; engineering supervisors; upkeep technicians; and plant operators. it's also an exceptional textual content for upper-level undergraduate and graduate scholars in departments of mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering know-how, or engineering technology.

About the Author

Michael W. Volk, P.E., is President of Volk & affiliates, Inc., Oakland, California (www.volkassociates.com), a consulting corporation focusing on pumps and pump structures. Volk's prone contain pump education seminars; pump apparatus assessment, troubleshooting, and box checking out; professional witness for pump litigation; witnessing of pump store assessments; pump marketplace study; and acquisition and divestiture session and brokerage. A member of the yankee Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a registered expert engineer, Volk bought the B.S. measure (1973) in mechanical engineering from the college of Illinois, Urbana, and the M.S. measure (1976) in mechanical engineering and the M.S. measure (1980) in administration technology from the collage of Southern California, Los Angeles.