Process Engineering · Intermediate · 1 day

Compressor and Pump Selection and Operation

Machine types, performance curves, NPSH and surge, and the operating decisions that protect the machine

Duration1 day
LevelIntermediate
FormatOn-site · virtual
CodeTR-F05
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Compressor and Pump Selection and Operation — one-page catalogue.

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Compressor and Pump Selection and Operation — one-page course flyer
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At a glance

What you will be able to do.

Process and rotating-equipment engineers, operations engineers and supervisors responsible for pumps and compressors; project engineers writing specifications

A pump or compressor is the one item of equipment where the process engineer's data sheet and the operator's actions interact every minute. The course covers selection between centrifugal, reciprocating and screw machines, reading performance curves, NPSH, minimum flow, surge and anti-surge control, and the process conditions — gas composition, suction pressure, parallel operation — that push machines outside their envelope.

  • Select pump and compressor types for a duty from process conditions and turndown requirements
  • Read and apply performance, head-capacity and surge curves to actual operating cases
  • Calculate NPSHa and minimum-flow requirements and specify the protection needed
  • Explain surge, anti-surge control and the effect of molecular-weight and suction changes
  • Specify a machine using API 610 / 617 / 618 data sheets and recognise the key clauses
  • Recognise operating problems — cavitation, recycle, parallel-machine instability — from trends
Course outline

Day by day

Morning

Pump types and selection · centrifugal pump curves, system curves, affinity laws · NPSH, cavitation and minimum flow · reciprocating and PD pumps · parallel and series operation · API 610 data sheet essentials · sealing and seal plans overview (API 682)

Afternoon

Compressor types: centrifugal, reciprocating, screw · head, polytropic efficiency and gas property effects · surge, stonewall and anti-surge control · performance-curve exercises and MW change case · API 617 / 618 specification essentials · operating and trending: start-up, load sharing, degradation · troubleshooting cases

Standards referenced
API 610
API 617
API 618
API 682
API 670
GPSA Engineering Data Book
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