I'm doing a design review for a seawater system using vertical turbine pumps in located in sumps within tanks. The system is to be designed to pump the capacity of the tanks in 9 hours. To do that requires 5000 gpm to be pumped. The BEP of the selected pumps is 3800 to 4000 gpm, but the...
I've never seen anything that I would consider official (pro or con) on the subject of using double nuts, but I've never been a fan for some reason. It just doesn't seem like a proper engineering approach to me; however, I wouldn't mind being able to make an educated decision. I'm not really...
