CD INDEX
- Abrade
- Absolute pressure
- Absolute velocity
- Absolute zero
- Acceleration head in centrifugal pumps
- Accumulator
- Active metal
- Adapter
- Adsorbed
- Affinity laws for centrifugal pumps
- Affinity laws for rotary (PD) pumps
- Aflas
- Agitator or mixer sealing
- Air Ingestion
- Air ingestion (CD only)
- Alignment
- Allen head
- Alpha sintered silicon carbide
- Aluminum Oxide
- Ambient heat/pressure
- Analyzing the individual bearing parts
- Anhydrous
- Annealing
- Anodize
- ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
- ANSI Pump
- ANSI Specifications
- API 682 (3rd edition) and ISO 21149 Standard
- API – the most popular plans
- API (American Petroleum Institute)
- API Gland
- API Plans
- API Standard, what’s wrong with it?
- API Standard. Its flaws (duplicate A028)
- Application
- Arbor press
- Asperity theory of face lubrication
- Aspiration
- Atmospheric pressure
- Austenitic steels
- Auxiliary seal equipment is leaking
- AVS Standard
- Axial deflection of the shaft
- Axial growth
- Axial thrust
- API Standard. Its flaws
- B.H.P.
- Back plate
- Back pull out pump
- Back to back double seal
- Back up ring
- Back up sealing
- Balance holes
- Balance ratio
- Balanced mechanical seal
- Ball bearing internal clearance
- Ball bearing life
- Ball bearing lubrication in centrifugal pumps
- Ball bearing sealing
- Ball bearings vs. journal or sleeve bearings
- Bar
- Barrier fluid
- Base plate
- Base plate, free standing
- Batch operation
- Bayonet
- Bearing cage
- Bearing life (CD only)
- Bearing lubrication in centrifugal pumps
- Bearing sealing (CD only)
- Bearings
- Bellows seals
- Bernoulli’s equation
- Bernoulli’s law
- Bernoulli’s principle
- Best efficiency point (BEP)
- Best pump technology
- Blocked out
- Blow down
- Body bound bolts
- Boiler
- Boiler feed pump
- Boiler feed water
- Booster pump
- Boyle’s law of gases
- Brake horsepower
- Brake horsepower curves for various specific speed impellers
- Brinnell hardness
- British thermal unit (btu.)
- Buffer fluid
- Buna N
- Bushing
- Bypass line
- C- Frame adapter
- C.L.A. (centerline average)
- Calculating the total system head in metric units
- Calculating the total system head in USCS (inch) units
- Canned pump
- Capacity
- Capillary action
- Carbide
- Carbon bushing
- Carbon face in a metal holder
- Carbon face manufacturing
- Carbon graphite
- Carbon graphite seal face - where it doesn’t work
- Carbon physicals
- Carbon-graphite damage
- Carbonic acid
- Carbonizing
- Carcinogen
- Carpenter 42
- Cartridge seal
- Cartridge seal advantages
- Cartridge seals overheating (CD only)
- Cartridge seals overheating problems
- Case hardened
- Catalyst
- Cavitation
- Cavitation - how to stop it
- Cavitation and high suction energy level pumps
- 854
- Cavitation resistant materials for impellers
- Center line design
- Centipoise
- Centistoke
- Centrifugal pump
- Centrifugal pump – ten most important features
- Centrifugal pump Installation
- Centrifugal pump modifications
- Centrifugal pump selection
- Centrifugal reaction
- Centrifugal separator
- Centrifugal vs, centripetal forces
- Centripetal force
- Ceramic
- Change of state
- Changing flow or capacity in a piping system
- Charles law of gases
- Chart recorder
- Check valve
- Chemically compatible
- Chemraz
- Chloride stress corrosion
- Choosing the correct size pump
- Choosing the metal parts for the seal
- Chrome carbide
- Chrome oxide
- Circular casing
- Clam shell
- Classifying chemicals
- Classifying fluids (CD only)
- Close coupled
- Closed impeller
- Coated seal face
- Coefficient of friction
- Coke
- Commodity
- Composite
- Compound
- Compound curve
- Compression set
- Concentrated cell corrosion
- Concentric dual seal
- Concentric reducer
- Concentricity
- Condensate
- Condensate pump features
- Convection
- Convection tank
- Converting packed pumps to a mechanical seal - the advantages
- Convolution
- Cooling jacket
- Correlating a few technical numbers
- Corrosion
- Corrosion - iron
- Corrosion problems with stainless steel
- Corrosion problems with stainless steel (CD only)
- Corrosion problems with submersible pumps
- Corrosion resistance
- Corrosion/ wear limits
- Coupling
- Crevice corrosion
- Critical carrying velocity
- Critical pressure
- Critical speed
- Critical temperature
- Cryogenic
- Curing temperature
- Cutwater
- Cyclone separator
- D.I.N. standard
- Damage of drive lugs etc
- Damage of the elastomer
- Damage of the metal case or body of the seal
- Damage to bushings
- Damage to the seal gland
- Damage to the setscrews
- Damage to the sleeve or shaft
- Damage to the springs
- Damping seal vibration
- Dead ending
- Dead heading the pump
- De-aerate the fluid
- De-contamination of pump parts sent out for repair
- Deflection (shaft)
- De-ionized water
- Demineralized water
- Density and Specific Gravity
- D-Frame adapter
- D-Gun process
- Diaphragm pump
- Difference between specific speed and suction specific speed
- Different types of leakage
- Diffuser or turbine pump
- Dilatant
- Disaster bushing in gland
- Discharge head
- Discharge recirculation
- DN factor
- Double balanced seal
- Double ended pump
- Double seal
- Double suction pump
- Double volute
- Drive lugs
- Driver
- Dry running application
- Dual or double seal
- Dual seal applications
- Dual seal arrangement as an environmental control
- Ductility
- Duplex metal
- Durco or Flowserve pumps
- Durometer
- Duty point
- Dynamic balance
- Dynamic elastomer
- Dynamic head (system head)
- E.P.A. (Environmental protection agency)
- Effective diameter
- Efficiency
- Elastic limit
- Elastic range
- Elastomer
- Electrolysis
- Element
- End suction centrifugal pump
- Endurance limit
- Energy
- Environmental control (CD only)
- Environmental controls
- Erosion corrosion
- Erosion resistance
- Ethylene propylene rubber (epr)
- Euler’s equation for an impeller
- Excessive motion sealing
- Exotic metal
- Expansion chamber
- Extrusion
- Eye of the impeller
- Face combination
- Face flatness
- Face lubrication-the theories
- Face pressure
- Face to face dual seal designs
- False burnelling
- Fatigue (metal)
- Filled carbon
- Film thickness
- Filter
- Finger spring
- Finite element analysis
- Fire pump features
- Five whys
- Flash point
- Flashing
- Flatness (seal)
- Flexibility factor
- Flexible member
- Flexible shaft
- Flow meter
- Flow or creep
- Flow turbulence cavitation
- Fluid
- Fluoraz
- Flurocarbon
- Flush
- Foot
- Foot bearing
- Foot valve
- Force
- Forced circulation
- Formed metal bellows
- Foundation or pedestal
- Fpm (feet per minute)
- Francis vane impeller
- Free length
- Frequent questions about mechanical seals
- Fretting corrosion
- Friction head
- Friction within the pump
- Fugitive emissions
- Galling
- Galvanic chart
- Galvanic corrosion
- Gap A & B
- Gas seals
- Gasket
- Gate valve
- General corrosion
- General troubleshooting
- Gland
- Globe valve
- Graphite
- Gravity
- Grease
- Grease seal
- Grout
- Halogen
- Hard face
- Hard face chart
- Hard face damage
- Harmonic vibration
- Hastelloy “C”
- Head
- Head - the reasons for changes in the discharge head of a pump
- Heat check
- Heat generated inside the pump
- Heat generation - its affect
- Heat generation - techniques to reduce it
- Heat generation at the seal faces
- Heat generation in the pump
- Heat transfer oil
- Heavy duty pump
- Helium light band
- Hertz
- High amperage pump problem
- High head - low capacity pumps
- High pressure seal
- High speed pumps
- High suction energy pumps
- High temperature problems with pumps and seals
- Homogeneous
- Horse power
- Hotwell
- Hydraulic balance
- Hydraulic force
- Hydraulic Institute Standards
- Hydrocarbon
- Hydrodynamic force
- Hydrodynamic seal
- Hydrogen embrittlement
- Hydrolysis
- Hydronium ion
- Hydrostatic seal
- Hydrostatic test
- Hysteresis
- I.D
- I.S.O.
- Impeller
- Impeller diameter vs. pump flow
- Impeller diameter reduction
- Impeller eye
- Impeller selection
- Impeller setting or adjustment
- Impeller shroud
- Impeller tutorial (CD only)
- Impeller vane
- Implode
- Incipient cavitation
- Inclusion
- Inducer
- Induction motor
- Inertia
- Inhibitor for chemicals
- Injecting air into the suction side of a centrifugal pump
- Injection molding
- Inline pump
- Inorganic
- Inspecting the individual seal components
- Intergranular corrosion
- Intermittent service
- Internal recirculation
- Internal recirculation cavitation
- Invar 36
- Investment casting
- Is this a seal or packing application?
- ISO
- Iteration
- Jack bolts
- Jacket
- Jockey pump
- Joule
- Journal bearing
- Kalrez®
- Kaolin
- Kilowatt
- Kinematic
- L10 bearing life
- L3/D4
- L3/D4 and mechanical seal failure
- Labyrinth seal
- Laminar flow
- Lantern ring
- Lapped
- Laser aligner
- Leaching
- Leading edge of the impeller
- Leakage in mechanical seals
- Learning about centrifugal pumps
- Lignum vitae
- Line bearings
- Line bored
- Linear pressure drop
- Lip grease or oil seal
- Liquor
- Lomakin Effect
- Low expansion metal
- Low flow
- Lubricant
- Lubricant - solid
- Lubricant - synthetic
- Lubricating oil additives
- Lubricating oils
- Lubricating the mechanical seal faces
- Lubricating the mechanical seal rubber parts
- Mach number
- Magnetic bearings
- Magnetic drive
- Magnetic seal
- Magnetite
- Maintenance practices that cause problems
- Maintenance programs
- Maintenance troubleshooting
- Martensitic metals
- Mass flow rate conversions
- Mating ring
- Maximum allowable working pressure for a centrifugal pump
- Mean diameter
- Mechanical seal
- Mechanical seal selection
- Mechanical seals - major improvements
- Meniscus
- Metal bellows
- Metal fatigue
- Metal selection
- Meters per second
- Micro organisms corrosion
- Micron
- Minimum flow
- Miscible
- Mixed acid
- Mixer or agitator sealing
- Mixture
- Modifying the impeller
- Modulus of elasticity
- Moment of inertia
- Monitoring the centrifugal pump
- Monochromatic light
- Monolithic face
- Motor magnetic center
- Motor selection
- Multistage pump
- Negative pressure
- Newton
- Newtonian fluid
- Noise in the pump
- Noise in the stuffing box
- Non clogging seal features
- Non lubricant
- Non metallic seal
- NPSH USCU units
- NPSHA Calculating net positive suction head available in USCS (inch) units
- NPSHA testing
- NPSHR - testing for it
- NPSHR Centrifugal pumps
- NPSHR Reductions
- O.D. (outside diameter)
- OEM
- OEM seal problems
- Oil analysis
- Oil emulsion
- Oil life
- Oil mist
- Oil Rings
- Oil seal
- Open impeller
- Operating length of the mechanical seal
- Operating window on the pump curve
- Operator troubleshooting
- Optical flat
- Orifice – flow through
- O-ring advantages
- O-ring groove
- O-ring selection
- OSHA
- OSHA 1910 sealing regulations
- Outgas
- Outside seals
- Over hung impeller
- Oversized pump
- Oversized stuffing box
- Oxidize
- Oxidizer
- Ozone & CFCs
- Packing
- Packing conversion- the down side
- Packing conversion to a mechanical seal
- Paper stock pumps
- Parallel operation of pumps
- Parallel pumps
- Pascal
- Pascal’s law
- Passivated
- PD (positive displacement) pump
- Permeable
- pH
- Physicals
- Pilot diameter
- Pipe diameter changes. What happens?
- Pipe strain
- Piping problems
- Piping recommendations
- Pitting corrosion
- Plasma spray
- Plastic range
- Plated seal face
- Pollutants terminology
- Positive displacement pump
- Positive face seal for bearings
- Power
- Power end (pump)
- Power factor (electrical)
- Power failure problems
- Precision or ball bearing
- Predictive maintenance
- Pre-rotation
- Press fit of seal faces
- Pressure
- Pressure drop
- Pressure gradient
- Pressure head
- Preventing premature seal failures
- Preventive maintenance for pumps
- Preventive maintenance for seals
- Priming a centrifugal pump
- Proprietary product
- Pump chart Layout
- Pump curve
- Pump curve modifications for paper stock
- Pump curve shape
- Pump installation recommendations
- Pump is cavitating
- Pump is using too much amperage
- Pump is vortexing
- Pump misconceptions
- Pump modifications
- Pump operation practices that cause problems
- Pump out vanes
- Pump performance field testing
- Pump producing a low head
- Pump producing low capacity
- Pump rebuilding tips
- Pump repair
- Pump running as a turbine
- Pump shaft rotation
- Pump size
- Pump specifications that cause seal and bearing problems
- Pump standards
- Pump standards problems
- Pump technology - here is what is available
- Pump types
- Pumpage
- Pumping ring
- Pumping systems, recognizing problems
- Pusher seal
- PV (pressure-velocity) factor
- Quench
- Quill shaft
- Radial
- Radial bearing
- Radial deflection of the pump shaft
- Rankine/ Kelvin temperature scales
- Reaction bonded silicon carbide
- Recirculation line
- Reducer
- Reduction
- Registered fit
- Repeller
- Reverse hydraulic balance (seal)
- Reversed fluid flow
- Reversed impeller
- Reversed shaft rotation
- Rigid shaft
- RMS (root mean square)
- Rockwell “C”
- Roller bearing
- Rotary or positive displacement pumps
- Rotary pumps NPIP (net positive inlet pressure)
- Rotating seal
- Rub marks in a centrifugal pump
- Rubber bellows seal
- Rules of thumb for centrifugal pumps
- Rules of thumb for mechanical seals
- Run out (shaft or sleeve)
- Run out capacity
- Runaway speed
- Scleroscope hardness test
- Seal – frequently asked questions
- Seal – major improvements
- Seal application
- Seal application, looking at the whole subject
- Seal cage
- Seal classification
- Seal damage
- Seal damage the causes and cures
- Seal design evaluation
- Seal design problems
- Seal design, the ten most important features you can specify
- Seal face hardness testing
- Seal face heat generation
- Seal face lubrication
- Seal face opens
- Seal faces
- Seal failure quick reference guide
- Seal flushing
- Seal installation problems
- Seal leak paths and causes
- Seal life
- Seal life- increasing it
- Seal metal selection
- Seal misconceptions
- Seal only pump
- Seal operation problems
- Seal repair
- Seal sleeve
- Seal specifications - how to write them
- Seal technology
- Seal troubleshooting
- Sealing cryogenics
- Sealing fluids sensitive to a small change in temperature or pressure
- Sealing fluids that require dual (two) seals
- Sealing high pressure
- Sealing high speed applications
- Sealing hot oil
- Sealing hot water
- Sealing liquids sensitive to agitation
- Sealing liquids that combine to form a solid compound
- Sealing lubricating liquids
- Sealing mixers and agitators (CD only)
- Sealing non lubricants
- Sealing slurries
- Sealing vacuum
- Secondary seal
- Selecting the carbon face
- Selecting the elastomer (O-ring)
- Selecting the hard face material
- Selective leaching corrosion
- Self sintered silicone carbide
- Self-aligning seal faces
- Self-priming pump
- Semi-open impeller
- Series operation (centrifugal pumps)
- Service factor for electric motors
- Setscrew
- Shaft bending - learning the L3/D4 formula
- Shaft bending - making the calculation
- Shaft breakage
- Shaft deflection – additional information
- Shaft deflection - how to reduce it
- Shaft deflection - the different types
- Shaft deflection - the problems it causes
- Shaft deflection (CD only)
- Shaft failure
- Shaft packing
- Shaft rotation direction
- Shaft sleeve
- Shelf life
- Shore “A” hardness
- Shut off head - estimating
- SI (System International)
- SiC (silicon carbide)
- Sintered material
- Siphon
- Siphon affect
- Skidding
- Sleeve bearing
- Slenderness ratio
- Slip
- Slip stick
- Slurry
- Slurry pumps
- Slurry sealing
- Snap ring
- Soft foot
- Soft start vs full voltage start
- Soluble
- Span
- Special elastomers
- Special elastomers (O-rings) Where they don’t work
- Special seal designs
- Special seals
- Specific gravity
- Specific heat
- Specific speed
- Specific viscosity
- Speed limits for slurry pumps
- Speed of sound
- Split mechanical seals
- Split mechanical seals - where to use them
- Spool piece
- Spring force
- Stabilizer
- Stainless steel
- Stainless steel discoloration
- Starting a centrifugal pump
- Static elastomer
- Static head or height
- Stationary cartridge seals
- Stationary seal
- Stationary vs. rotating seal designs
- Stiffness ratio
- Strain
- Stress
- Stress corrosion cracking
- Stress relieve
- Stripped
- Strobe light
- Stuffing box
- Stuffing box is getting hot
- Stuffing box pressure
- Stuffing box pressure control
- Stuffing box temperature
- Stuffing box temperature control
- Stuffing box vent
- Sublimation
- Submergence flow control to prevent cavitation
- Suction head
- Suction piping requirements
- Suction recirculation
- Suction specific speed
- Suction throttling
- Sump pump
- Surface finish
- Surface pressure head
- Surface speed
- Surging
- Synchronous motor
- System curve
- System head
- Tachometer
- Tandem seals
- TDH (total discharge head)
- Teflon® wedge
- Temperature limits for elastomers
- Ten most important pump features
- Tensile strength
- The pump looses its prime
- Thermal bushing
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal imaging
- Thermoplastic
- Thermosetting
- Thixotropic fluid
- Three formulas that link head/ pressure and velocity
- Three rules that explain shaft deflection
- Thrust
- Thrust bearing
- Timken Roller Bearing Life
- Tolerance
- Tongue of the pump
- Torque
- Torr
- Total system head
- Trailing edge of the impeller
- Transducer
- Treated water
- Tribology
- Triple point and its affect on cavitation
- Troubleshooting a disassembled pump
- Troubleshooting a running pump
- Troubleshooting a stopped pump
- Troubleshooting seals tutorial
- Troubleshooting seals on a pump
- Troubleshooting seals, no apparent cause for the problem
- Troubleshooting section
- Tuberculation corrosion
- Tungsten carbide
- Turbulence
- Turbulent flow
- Tutorial Pump troubleshooting
- Tutorial, troubleshooting a PD pump
- Tutorial, troubleshooting ball bearings
- Tutorial, troubleshooting seals
- Tutorials
- Two-way seal hydraulic balance
- Unbalanced seal
- Unfilled carbon
- Universal joint
- USCS
- Vacuum
- Vacuum breakers
- Vacuum pumps
- Vacuum sealing
- Vane diffuser
- Vane passing syndrome cavitation
- Vapor phase sealing
- Vapor point
- Vapor pressure
- Vaporization cavitation
- Vaporize
- Variable frequency drive
- Variable frequency drive bearing problem
- Variable frequency drive efficiency
- VDMA
- Velocity
- Velocity head
- Vent
- Venting of a centrifugal pump
- Venting the stuffing box
- Venting vertical pumps
- Venturi flow
- Vertical canned pumps
- Vibration
- Vibration damping
- Vibration is causing seal problems
- Vibration readings
- Viscosity
- Viscosity corrections
- Viscosity, how it affects your centrifugal pump
- Viscosity, how it affects your rotary (PD) pump
- Viscous fluids, measuring rate of flow
- Viton®
- Volume conversions
- Volumetric rate of flow
- Volute casing
- Vortex pump
- Vortexing liquid
- Vulcanize
- Water and ball bearings
- Water glass
- Water hammer
- Water horse power (WHP)
- Water horsepower calculations
- Watt
- Wave spring
- Wear ring
- Wear ring clearance
- Welded metal bellows
- Wet end
- Wetted parts
- Why seal faces open prematurely
- Window
- Work harden
- Yield point
CHARTS AND GRAPHS
- ANSI pump dimensions/ inch size
- ANSI pump dimensions/ metric size
- API table #1
- API table #2
- Correlation between head/capacity/horsepower/efficiency
- CR Lip seal life
- Durco Mark II Group II radial bearing life
- Friction loss for metric pipe/valves/fittings
- Friction loss for water per100 feet of pipe 1.250 inch/ 1.500 inch
- Friction loss for water per100 feet of pipe 2.000 inch / 2.500 inch
- Friction loss for water per100 feet of pipe 3.000 inch
- Friction loss for water per100 feet of pipe 6.000 inch
- Full load speeds of synchronous motors
- Galvanic series of metals and alloys
- Metric pipe friction chart
- NPSHA vs. capacity at SSS of 8500
- NPSHR reductions available
- Properties of water from 32°F (0°C) to 705°F (374.1°C)
- Pump curve/ inch dimensions
- Pump curve/metric dimensions
- Pure Carbon Co. physicals
- Resistance coefficient for valves – inch size
- Resistance coefficients for fittings – inch sizes
- Seal face flatness reading chart
- Specific speed data
- Vapor pressures of various liquids -180°F to 60°F
- Vapor pressures of various liquids -60°F to 240°F
- Viscosity correction chart
SELECTION THE CORRECT O-RING FOR
YOUR APPLICATION
- Selecting the O-ring material
- Selecting the O-ring for: Abietic Acid to Azobenzene
- Selecting the O-ring for: Baking soda to Butyryl Chloride
- Selecting the O-ring for: Cadmium Chloride to Cymene
- Selecting the O-ring for: Danforth’s Oil to Dye Liquors + caustic boil out
- Selecting the O-ring for: Effluent - Clarified to Ex-Tri
- Selecting the O-ring for: Fat Lime to Fyrquel 150-220-300-550
- Selecting the O-ring for: Gallic Acid to Gun Cotton
- Selecting the O-ring for: Halothane to Hypoid Lubes
- Selecting the O-ring for: Ice Spar to Kyanol
- Selecting the O-ring for: Lacquer Solvents to Lye Solutions
- Selecting the O-ring for: Machine Oil to Mustard
- Selecting the O-ring for: Napalm to Nutra sweet
- Selecting the O-ring for: Oil - corn to Ozone
- Selecting the O-ring for: Propanone to Pyruvic Acid
- Selecting the O-ring for: Quicklime to Syrup
- Selecting the O-ring for: Table salt to Type III Fuel MIL-S-3136
- Selecting the O-ring for: Ucon Hydrolubes to Zirconium Nitrate
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