How Hydro Set the New Pump Testing Standard

How Hydro Set the New Pump Testing Standard

Curious how to ensure your pump meets top performance? This article explores Hydro Sets' industry-standard testing protocols—covering flow, pressure, efficiency, and quality validation to guarantee system reliability.

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Know Your Engineering Equipment in Mining Applications

Know Your Engineering Equipment in Mining Applications

George Corfield is a professional maintenance and operations manager and mining engineer, with more than 20 years of experience in operations, equipment repair and overhaul, maintenance, and engineering functions for diversified industrial and mining organizations.

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Identifying and Solving Technical Issues During Commissioning

Identifying and Solving Technical Issues During Commissioning

As a senior inside sales engineer, Kirill Zimin is in charge of sizing pumps and selecting and acquiring quotes of its accessories. This requires meeting with customers as a technical expert. Working closely with the sales force at Ruhrpumpen Global, his team must accurately transfer orders to the manufacturing business unit in the oil and gas, power, chemical, metallurgy, and water industries.

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Superstorm Sandy Disaster Response - How Pump Companies Helped the U.S. Northeast Recover

Superstorm Sandy Disaster Response - How Pump Companies Helped the U.S. Northeast Recover

Hurricane Sandy, later upgraded to Superstorm Sandy, was the deadliest, most destructive and strongest storm of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Several pump companies deployed equipment to the flooded areas immediately after the storm made landfall near Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 29, 2012 to help the area recover from the destruction.

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Collegiate Tribology Program Closes Manufacturing Skills Gap

Collegiate Tribology Program Closes Manufacturing Skills Gap

A one-of-a-kind program at Auburn is helping develop manufacturing engineers with hands-on experience that translates directly to real-world jobs. Whether it’s an airport runway, a manufacturing robot, fluid couplings, power transmission, a tile floor, human-joint replacement, hard-drive technology, or biomedical equipment, surfaces are in constant contact with each other in the mechanical world. The result is friction and wear. In fact, one fourth of the world’s manmade energy is lost to friction. Tribology is used to maintain, control, monitor, and positively manipulate friction, and studying it has the potential to make innovative contributions to industry, society, and environmental conservation.

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