Fish Friendly Pumps Go Direct Drive

Bedford Pumps, the UK’s leading manufacturer of large submersible and conventional pumps for the Land Drainage industry, has recently installed and commissioned a direct...

Drive-based Functional Safety

Functional safety can be easily achieved with safety devices that are, themselves, already certified to the most relevant functional safety standards. ABB drives include...

Modal Testing of Pump Bearing Housings

By Cliff Knight, KnightHawk Engineering Pumps are subject to many sources of excitation. If you are lucky you can avoid some of them, but some...

Smart Pumps Unleashed

The appeal of smart pump technology is easy to see. Instead of one, persistent pumping action and the resulting energy costs, smart pumps promise...

Brushless DC Motor Commits to 100 Percent Running Time

By Roger Ingemey, Circor  When process operations depend on 100 percent running time, control valve actuators must offer unrivaled performance together with low maintenance requirements....

Shedding Light on Submersibles

Recent changes in solar pumping technology have the potential to turn the market on its head. For years, solar-powered pumping systems have been used...

Technologies that Enable Effective Energy Transition

Headwinds over the past several years have taught oil and gas companies to maintain strict cost disciplines and be more efficient than ever. Organizations...

Optimizing Asset Performance

By Jennifer Cardillo, Sulzer For over eighty years, Sulzer has provided maintenance and repair solutions to the South American industry. Today, specialist teams offer a...

Local Motor Shop Helps Kansas Water Authority Solve Bearing-Damage Problem

Dan Biby learned it all the hard way. An ordeal concerning several inverter-controlled pump motors with bearing damage made him a believer in the...

Growing Demand for Desalination Requires Better Energy Efficiency

Water demand is continuing to increase as the global population grows. Clean water is required by people for drinking, cooking, and washing, and by...