To begin with, thanks for everyone's comments.
I forget that in my industry (Paper) we tend to assume that everyone talks the same.
The chest is a 10 ft x 12 ft tile concrete tank.
The fluid is 2% consistency paper stock which on the boarder line between pulp stock and white water. We...
I would like to obtain an opinion on a pump suction design.
I have an existing 24" pump suction out of a chest that run approximately 3 ft to a LR 90 into reducer to a 12" pump inlet. The flow is about 3,600 gpm.
I adding a new pump and may not have a long enough shutdown to install another...
I appreciate every ones comments. It has been very helpful and confirmed what I was thinking. I especially like the beer analogy.
Now comes the fun part, convincing management the need to address the problem.
Thanks
I am an engineer (mechanical) at a paper mill and I have been wondering about the consequence of have a lagging power factor on the downstream equipment (breakers, starters, cabling, motors etc.)? If I am to believe the the meter on the incoming breaker for one of the four feeds from the...
