All the elements necessary to implement a complete and economical pump monitoring system are now available. It’s simply a matter of assembling the pieces. Within the walls of a thermal generating ...

Boiler feed pumps (BFPs) play a major role in the capacity and heat rate of a power-generating unit. As such, they merit routine performance testing to assess their condition and trend deficiencies to ...

Generating electrical power takes on many forms—hydroelectric, solar, fossil fuel, renewable, biofuel, nuclear, and geothermal, all of which are made up of many internal processes that together ...

Typically, when talk turns to power plant pumps, boiler feed and cooling water pumps immediately dominate the discussion. And that’s as it should be: these pumps are critical to a plant’s thermal ...

Centrifugal pumps remain pivotal to a wide array of industrial applications, ranging from water supply to energy systems, where enhancing performance and reducing energy losses are critical. Recent ...

For apparatus dedicated to fire suppression, there’s nothing more important than its pump and the plumbing. Every drop of water used at a fire scene is moved and controlled by pumps and there ...

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Outside a 100-year-old house on the edge of the Peak District in northern England, a heat pump’s fan blades are swiftly spinning. They’re drawing outdoor air over coils of refrigerant, harvesting ...

Historically, increasing a 12-valve 5.9L Cummins engine’s performance with only a Bosch P7100 high-pressure injection pump (P-pump) required modifying the pump’s air-fuel control and adjusting its ...

Every car lover wants to bolt in a real toad-strangler of a fuel pump. And while the reasons may vary—you want to upgrade your weak stocker, you’re planning engine upgrades, you’re going racing, you ...

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