A foundation will be designed for a large new vertical turbine pump with a suction can. Given the size of the proposed pump, I suspect the foundation will take the form of a thick walled concrete cylinder approximately 6ft in diameter x 15ft deep in the ground. Since this is near the Gulf...
Our refinery has always used solid metal gaskets to seal fin fan shoulder plugs. (threaded plugs in header boxes of air cooled exchangers) Proper preparation of the machined sealing surface has always been a problem when reassembling these exchangers.
I would like to look at going with grooved...
I know you are supposed to remove a gas can from a truck bed (plastic lined) before you fill it; but lets say you have a big container which would be difficult to lift once it is full and on the ground.
To keep this in the truck bed and fill it, there should be a way a grounding clip can be...
In a case where a restriction orifice will be used in a minimum flow line for a pump, is there a rule-of-thumb way to determine 1)if more than one orifice is needed, and 2)about how many stages are required?
For example, there is a charge pump application where the discharge side of the orifice...
