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What you'll learn
⚡ Build a system curve and locate the true operating point against the pump curve, then predict how system changes move it
⚡ Calculate available suction head, compare it against required, and set a defensible margin
⚡ Diagnose cavitation, suction recirculation, air entrainment and vortexing from symptoms, noise and vibration
⚡ Troubleshoot a pump systematically - low flow, low head, high vibration, high power - from symptom to root cause
⚡ Select a pump from vendor curves, apply impeller trim correctly, and avoid the oversizing that causes chronic unreliability
⚡ Understand what happens away from the best efficiency point and where minimum continuous flow comes from
⚡ Apply API 610 requirements - pump types, materials classes, nozzle load tables and the datasheet fields that carry risk
⚡ Specify seals, bearings, lubrication and auxiliary systems, and recognise the auxiliary failures that stop the pump
⚡ Control installation quality - alignment, soft foot, baseplate stiffness, grouting and nozzle loads
⚡ Commission and performance test to the relevant tolerance bands, and build a condition monitoring and reliability programme
Requirements
❗ No prior rotating equipment experience is required - pump principles are built up from the start
❗ Any engineering or technical background is enough to follow the course
❗ Comfortable with basic algebra - every calculation is worked step by step
❗ Helpful but not essential: some familiarity with reading a pump curve or a P&ID
❗ No software or purchases needed - this is an applied machinery course
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
A pump gets changed out, rebuilt, and fails again in four months. Then again. The pump is not the problem. The system it was put into is the problem, and nobody looked at the system because the pump is the thing that broke.
Pumps are the largest equipment population on any process plant and they absorb a disproportionate share of the maintenance budget. Most of that spend goes on machines that were oversized at selection, are operating far from their best efficiency point, and are being asked to work with a suction system that never gave them a chance.
This course treats the pump as part of a system, which is the only way pump problems get solved permanently.
WHAT YOU WILL MASTER
Five sections cover pump principles and construction, system interaction and NPSH, API 610 specification and selection, seals, bearings and installation, and commissioning through to systematic troubleshooting.
You will build a system curve and find the operating point where it crosses the pump curve, then watch what happens to that point when the system changes. You will calculate available suction head from the suction system, read required suction head from the curve, and understand the margin between them and the design decisions that quietly destroy it.
OPERATING AWAY FROM DESIGN
What actually happens at low flow - recirculation, temperature rise and radial load - and where minimum continuous flow comes from. What happens at high flow as suction margin disappears. And the reason oversizing is the most common and most expensive error in pump selection, made with the best of intentions every time.
THE COMPONENTS THAT FAIL
Mechanical seals and why they lead the failure statistics. Bearings, arrangement, lubrication method and what bearing temperature is telling you. Auxiliary systems and piping plans. Nozzle loads, the allowable load table, and what exceeding it does. Alignment, soft foot, baseplate stiffness and grouting - the installation variables that decide whether a correctly selected pump is reliable.
DIAGNOSIS AND ACCEPTANCE
Performance testing and the tolerance bands. What to witness at works and at site. Vibration monitoring and the parameters that matter. Common failure modes and their appearance - seal faces, bearings, wear rings, shafts and impellers. And a systematic method that moves from symptom to cause rather than from symptom to replacement.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Rotating equipment and machinery engineers; reliability and maintenance engineers running bad actor programmes; process and project engineers specifying pumps; piping and stress engineers dealing with nozzle loads; and technicians and graduate engineers building real pump capability.
WHAT YOU GET
Structured on-demand video across 20 focused lessons and five sections, a final exam, downloadable lectures, lifetime access on mobile and TV and a certificate of completion.
No prior rotating equipment experience is required - pump principles are built from the start. Any engineering or technical background is enough to follow it.
Enrol now and start fixing the system instead of the pump.
Who this course is for
⭐ Rotating equipment and machinery engineers responsible for pump specification and performance
⭐ Reliability and maintenance engineers running bad actor elimination and pump improvement programmes
⭐ Process and project engineers specifying pumps and their suction systems
⭐ Piping and stress engineers dealing with pump nozzle loads and suction piping design
⭐ Maintenance technicians and supervisors who overhaul and align pumps
⭐ Graduate engineers entering rotating equipment or reliability roles for the first time


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