I have a large fabrication that I call out for thermal stress relieve. It is fabricated from W10 X 100 ASTM A572 grade 50 steel. It's approximate overall size is 14W X 14L X 6H and has several wear plate bosses machined on it after stress releive. One of the vendors has taken an exception to...
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We have 9 deep well vertical turbine pumps near the local river that supply water to our process. Since the installation of pump #8 we've had reduced life of pump bowl components. At this time we also upgraded to VFD drive packages to reduce shock loading on pumps. We do not use VFD to...