Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet
Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals
-
Congratulations waross on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
RO sizing in 1" warmup line centrifugal pump
In the current situation we do have these globe valves installed, the point is that the people operating them have little knowledge of the effects caused by a backwards rotating N2 Seal in the pump. The operators tend to open the valve too far just to make the warm up process quicker. The RO is...- jimty1
- Post #3
- Forum: Pump engineering
-
RO sizing in 1" warmup line centrifugal pump
Hi Folks! I'm looking for guidelines/calculations for sizing RO's in 1" warmup lines. We're speaking of centrifugal pumps, both horizontal and vertical. Why?: when an operator opens the valve in the bypass line over the checkvalve too far, it causes a flow large enough to spin the impeller...- jimty1
- Thread
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Pump engineering
