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Protect Your Pump And Keep It Longer
February 21, 2007
•Technical Article: Protect Your Pump And Keep It Longer
By Don Lundberg, Sr Engineer Fluid Components International
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 day over multiple shifts. Poor operating conditions can reduce pump performance, require extra maintenance, shorten their lives and increase costs.
Unexpectedly losing a pump is often an expensive or even a dangerous problem in a chemical plant. The results of a pump failure potentially range from the loss of product in sensitive pharmaceutical batch control applications to damage to other nearby equipment from pressure build-up of material that isn't moving or even to safety hazards when a pump fails to shut-down and literally burns-up in the presence of combustible materials. It really pays to protect and care properly for your pumps.
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•Technical Article: Protect Your Pump And Keep It Longer
SOURCE: Fluid Components International
