Pumps
Real-time monitoring of creep damage for fired equipment tubes, employing advanced web platforms
Within the petrochemical industry, fired heater tubes and boilers experience high tube metal temperatures (TMTs) for extended periods of time.
Variable-speed pumps and minimum flow control valves: Design and implementation
Within hydrocarbon storage terminals, product pumps are the most vital rotating equipment for terminal operations and maintenance.
Business Trends: Optimize pump systems to save electrical energy
Given the global rise in energy costs, there has never been a better time to review and assess the efficiency of pumping systems—whatever their size, complexity or sphere of operation.
Valves, Pumps and Turbomachinery: Calculate flowrate through valves, fittings and pipe under a laminar flow regime
Calculating flowrate through long, straight pipe under laminar flow regime is easy using standard equations of fluid mechanics.
Amarinth wins order from ADNOC for API 685 OH2 and VS4 Magnetic Drive pumps
Amarinth, a world-leading, net-zero designer and manufacturer of low lifecycle cost centrifugal pumps and associated equipment, primarily for the offshore and onshore oil & gas industries; nuclear and renewable energy generation; defense; desalination; process and industrial markets, has won an order from ADNOC for API 685 OH2 and VS4 Magnetic Drive pumps that will be used on the Ruwais NGL trains, United Arab Emirates.
The effect of viscosity on centrifugal pumps and predicting performance for different fluids
Centrifugal pumps are used for a wide range of applications and services in the refining industry. In today’s dynamic scenario, changes in pumped fluid characteristics are common, especially for transfer/loading pumps.
Liquid applications for ASME Section I service
Extensive guidance is available for relief protection of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code (B&PVC) Section VIII process equipment for scores of applications, such as run-away reactions, distillation and heat exchangers. Sources include ASME, American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS), among others.
BB5 launch complements CPC Pumps International API 610 range
CPC International announced the launch of its new BB5 pump.
Highlights of API 685 3rd Edition, Sealless Pumps—Part 2
Part 2 of the article on API 685 has highlighted most of the “other changes of interest to the reader” and provides insights into the various other points of discussion the API 685 task force addressed, along with the rationale behind changes found in the July 2022 published 3rd Ed. of the standard.
Hot oil pump warm-up system best practices and failure case study
Many industries utilize pumps in hot applications, including oil and gas facilities.
- LyondellBasell to sell select European petrochemical assets to AEQUITA 6/9
- Ebara Elliott Energy signs high-speed balancing bunker agreement to expand Middle East footprint 6/9
- Rotork joins Rockwell Automation’s Technology Partner Program 6/9
- California (U.S.) fuel imports hit 4-yr high amid refinery outages 6/9
- Finavia's Helsinki Airport uses Neste MY Renewable Diesel to drive operations to net-zero carbon emissions 6/9
- Honeywell drives industrial transition from automation to autonomy with new AI-enabled digital suite 6/9
