Centrifugal Pumps

✍ Scribed by Igor J. Karassik, Terry McGuire (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 991
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This last, the education of pump users, is precisely what this book was intended to do. To what extent we must have achieved our purpose, our readers must decide. My good friend and associate, J. T. (Terry) McGuire, and I have been working very closely together for a long time. Our view of engineering problems and of their solutions coincide to an astonishing degree. When I was asked to prepare a second edition of my book Centrifugal Pumps, it was logical that I turned to Terry and suggested that he be my coauthor on this project. He agreed to do so, and his cooperation has been most valuable, both in improving the resultant work and in easing my burden. It would be presumptuous on my part to pretend that nothing has changed in the technology of centrifugal pumps during the 30 years since I prepared the manuscript for the first edition of this book. Let me, then, speak of some of these changes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Classification and Nomenclature....Pages 3-17
Casings and Diffusers....Pages 18-43
Multistage Pump Casings....Pages 44-61
Impellers and Wearing Rings....Pages 62-90
Axial Thrust in Single- and Multistage Pumps....Pages 91-103
Hydraulic Balancing Devices....Pages 104-115
Shafts and Shaft Sleeves....Pages 116-135
Stuffing Boxes....Pages 136-160
Mechanical Seals....Pages 161-194
Breakdown Seals....Pages 195-210
Bearings....Pages 211-271
Couplings....Pages 272-297
Baseplates and Other Pump Supports....Pages 298-310
Special Designs: Vertical Pumps....Pages 311-346
Special Designs: Self-Priming Pumps....Pages 347-351
Special Effect Pumps....Pages 352-366
Materials of Construction....Pages 367-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Heads, Conditions of Service Performance Characteristics, and Specific Speed....Pages 401-472
Suction Conditions and Limitations on Suction Performance....Pages 473-505
System-Head Curves....Pages 506-544
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Centrifugal Pumps and Energy Conservation....Pages 545-557
Pump Operation at Off-Design Conditions....Pages 558-591
Front Matter....Pages 593-593
Controls....Pages 595-620
Drivers....Pages 621-685
Priming....Pages 686-714
Front Matter....Pages 715-715
Services....Pages 717-799
Procuring Centrifugal Pumps....Pages 800-829
Front Matter....Pages 831-831
Installation....Pages 833-881
Operation....Pages 882-892
Monitoring and Performance Testing....Pages 893-915
Maintenance....Pages 916-926
Diagnostics of Field Problems....Pages 927-945
Front Matter....Pages 947-947
The Centrifugal Pump of Tomorrow....Pages 949-955
Back Matter....Pages 957-989

✦ Subjects

Mechanical Engineering; Civil Engineering