Pump and Abrasion Technologies® (PAT) unveiled their new CURVE™ range of pumps in September 2016. A prominent South African Ferrochrome plant was among the first companies to adopt this new technology ...

If you work with electric motors and pumps, you’ll eventually encounter a pump curve and one of its key parameters — best efficiency point (BEP). The BEP is the point on the curve where the pump ...

Boiler feed pumps (BFPs) play a major role in the capacity and heat rate of a power-generating unit. As such, they merit routine performance testing to assess their condition and trend deficiencies to ...

As addressed in an earlier article of this series, centrifugal pumps are the most common pumps in a process plant, and an operator’s understanding of how these systems work often will impact how much ...

When new processes are undertaken, often small scale innovative equipment is designed and produced to establish proof of concept for theories or limits to be checked before the full scale plant is ...