Location: Garden Plaza (formerly Holiday Inn), 6050 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. NW, Atlanta, GA 30071, hotel tel. 770-448-4400

(7^th Annual Pumps Theory-and-Hands-on Maintenance and Reliability Conference)

(PumpTec-2010: Atlanta, GA, September 20-21, 2010)

www.PumpConference.com (click to see photos from PumpTec-2010)

Sponsored and Organized by Scranton Gillette’s Water & Wastes Digest and the U.S. Technology Center of Pumping Machinery

in consortium with leading pumps’ and pump-related equipment manufacturers and suppliers

(click here to view photos from PumpTec-2010-May-Chicago)

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Conference for engineering, maintenance, operating and management professionals from: Water and Wastewater municipalities, Power Plants, Chemical Plants, HVAC, Pulp and Paper mills, and General pump-related affiliations.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

PUMPS

· Training on a variety of pump types, styles and makes

· Technical, lots of hands-on, and busy

· See the pumps at the internals, attend hands-on training sessions

· Assemble pumps, learn pumps troubleshooting methods

· Equipment reliability improvement techniques and life extension

· Efficiency improvements and energy savings methods

· Gain new skills, and leave having gained real knowledge, ready to implement at your facility and in your career

Each attendee will receive a Certificate of Attendance and Graduation with 1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEU) to qualify for 16 Professional Development Hours (PDH) needed to fulfill Professional Engineers’ continuing education requirements in many states.

Program training is also certified by several agencies, including Georgia Secretary of State Board of Examiners for Certification of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators with an official Continuing Education Course Number CE-12-0610-NELIK-013112-0001 (12 points); Energy and Environment Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection, Course ID #7113 (12 Continuing Education Hours), and other agencies.

Program Objective: to provide Plant Maintenance, Reliability and Engineering professionals working with pumps with a “rapid-deployment” - hands-on training exercises, specifically designed to reinforce pump theory, applications and pump repair and maintenance techniques. Industries involved: power generation, water and wastewater, chemical and petrochemical plants, hydrocarbon processing, paper mills, marine and navy, and general industries. Practical and pragmatic training for a pump novice, and an excellent refresher for the old-timers.

Monday, September 20

8:15 – 8:30: Opening Address: Burrell Ellis, CEO, DeKalb County – Energy, Efficiency, and Reliability: Challenges for Our Communities

8:30 – 8:45: Technology and Innovations - a challenge to our engineering, maintenance, and plants operating communities, Ted Rhinehart

8:45 – 9:00: Conserving Water – a Bridge from Technology to Practice, Dr. Francis Kungu

9:00 – 11:30 Session #1 “Centrifugal Pumps”:

· End-Suction Pumps (Lev Nelik, Pumping Machinery, LLC)

o Theory and hands-on, re-assembly of single-stage end suction ANSI centrifugal pumps. Learn to read and interpret pump performance curves, head-capacity, efficiency, power, impeller trim effect on performance, affinity laws NPSH, cavitation/recirculation issues. Design features evaluation, applications, troubleshooting methods, performance testing of two sample pumps operating in parallel mode and plotting performance curves

Submersible Pumps (John Ondrejack, Flowserve, Municipal Group)

o Hands-on re-assembly of a double suction horizontally split case centrifugal pump. Rotor assembly, design variations and effects on reliability

o wet versus dry types

o installation pointers and application examples

· Double-Suction and Vertical Pumps (Rick Mathis, Pumping Machinery, LLC)

o Hands-on re-assembly of a double suction horizontally split case centrifugal pump. Rotor assembly, design variations and effects on reliability

o Open versus enclosed vertical lineshaft designs; repair techniques and upgrades; cavitation – how to avoid it and what to do about it if you can’t; reassembly of a small vertical pump and importance of impeller-to-case lift clearance for larger units; reverse engineering your pump installations for maximum reliability; bearing design configurations and materials for maximum reliability in “difficult” applications; OEM parts versus duplicates; materials selection for problem avoidance; common problems with vertical turbine pumps and what to do about them; sump design and submergence / turbulence considerations; register fits and clearances, lateral clearances and wear rings; foundation design and vibration – how to reduce

11:30 – 1:00 Luncheon with a Tour: a short tour of DeKalb County Municipality Raw Water Pump Stations: both the old (190 MGD) and the just getting on-line new (300 MGD). Attendees will enjoy a tour of two stations, to see the pumps, motors, controls and operation. One station was built in 1942 and other brand new. This station is about 3 miles from the Conference Site on Holcomb Bridge Road and the Chattahoochee River. Both pump stations have the same name: “John A Walker Memorial Pumping Station”. The original pump station was constructed in 1942 to allow DeKalb County to pump raw water from the Chattahoochee River to Scott Candler water plant. This station originally has 3 DeLaval Split case horizontal pumps; later in the early 1970’s three Peerless vertical turbine two stage 1750 HP pumps were added. Currently we are towards the end of the new pump station construction. The new station has many innovations including an automatic sand removal system, dual flow traveling screens and six 2750 HP Goulds Vertical Turbine 60 MGD pumps. John Walker was the Deputy Director of Plant Operations until October 2007 when he passed away at the age of 43. The station was subsequently named in his memory on November 7, 2008.

Organized by the Advisory Committee member, Mr. Merat Zareii, DeKalb County Watershed Management

1:00 – 3:00 Session #2 “Bearings and Lubrications” (Steve Young, MRC / SKF Bearings and Roy Forson, Imerys Performance Minerals)

• Bearing failure modes (skidding, preload, overheating)
• Lubrication methods (grease, oil, mist).
• Fundamentals of Lubrication
• How lubricants work
• Additives and what they do
• Oil Analysis and Interpretation
• EHL (Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication) and why it is important to bearings and gears
• Synthetic Lubrication
• Proper lubrication of bearings and couplings
• Storage and Handling of lubricants

3:00 – 5:00 Sessions #3 “Alignment and Vibrations Fundamentals” (Mike Keohane, VibrAlign, and John Visotsky, Chairman of Vibration Institute, Atlanta Chapter)

· Fundamentals of alignment: straight edge, dial indicators, laser

· Pumping-to-pump alignment

· Motor-to-pump alignment

· Overall vibration level limits versus FFT spectral analysis; interpretation of amplitude-frequency versus amplitude-time wave form

· Field case examples

5:00 – 6:30 Reception

Tuesday, September 21

8:00 – 12:00: Session #4 “Positive Displacement Rotary Pumps” (Jim Brennan, IMO (multiple screw pumps), Colfax Pump Group; Todd Kierstead, Allweiler (Progressing Cavity pumps), Colfax Pump Group); Chad Wunderlich, Viking (Gear pumps) (IDEX Pump Group); Gerald DaBoub, Boerger, LLC and Rich Owens, Vogelsang (Lobe pumps)

· 3-screw pumps

· progressing cavity pumps,

· gear pumps: applications

· lobe pumps: standard and specialty applications

· design feature comparison and hands-on assembly work; viscous versus thin-fluid pumping; reliability and troubleshooting procedures

Luncheon Presentation by Sponsors and Vendoprs (12:00 – 1:00): (5 minutes each)

1:00 – 4:00 Session #5 “Mechanical Seals versus Seal-Less Pumps” Frank Huntington, John Crane Inc., and Bob Courtwright, Eagle Burgmann Industries,

· Overview of mechanical seals and packings; actual hands-on exercise of setting of a component seal and comparing with a cartridge seal assembly procedures

· Mag-drive pumps

1:00 pm - 2:25 pm (Frank Huntington, John Crane Inc.) Overview of mechanical seals and packings; actual hands-on exercise of setting of a component seal and comparing with a cartridge seal assembly procedures Mag-drive pumps Canned-motor pumps

2:25 pm - 2:35 pm Break

2:35 pm - 4:00 pm (Bob Courtwright, EagleBurgmann) Troubleshooting seal failures, double seals and supply systems, new technologies to avoid dry start failures, proper seal selection including pH and Chlorides, metallurgy, elastomers and face materials, split seal applications.

To register and for more information: Registration Form

www.PumpConference.com

For technical information, or questions to the Advisory Committee, contact Dr. L. Nelik, P.E., at:

Phone: 770-310-0866

DrPump@PumpingMachinery.com

www.PumpingMachinery.com

PumpTec-2010 Advisory Committee:

Dr. Lev Nelik, P.E., Pumping Machinery, LLC, Pump-Tec Conference Chairman

Danny Adams, Flygt Pumps – Submersible Pumps section

Michael Bixon, Israeli Electric Power Company (Hevrat Hashmal) – Power Generation section

Jim Brennan, (retired) Imo Pump (Colfax Pump Group) – Rotary Screw Pumps section

Charlie Cappellino, Goulds Pump – Centrifugal Pumps section

Scott Champlin, Pumping Solutions, Inc. – Pump Distributors section

Jim Coryell, Inpro Seals – Bearings & Lubrication section

Tom Day, Milton Roy – Metering Pumps section

Gerald DaBoub, Boerger, LLC – Rotary Pumps section

Lori Ditoro, Pumps & Systems Magazine – Media section

Rasmus Dorrington, Colonial Pipeline – End User Perspectives

John Dunlap, Colonial Pipeline – End User Perspectives

Roy Forson, Imerys Performance Minerals – Bearings & Lubrication

Brian Geegan, RuhrPumpen – Vertical and Split Case Pumps section

Frank Huntington, John Crane Inc. - Mechanical Seals

Todd Kierstead, Allweiler (Colfax Pump Group) – Progressing Cavity Pumps section

Mike Koehane, VibrAlign – Vibrations & Alignment section

Jim Langley, Nikkiso Pumps – Seal-less (canned motor) Pumps section

John Martin, Safety Consultant – Safety section

Woody Nepa, Inpro Seals – Bearings & Lubrication section

John Ondrejack, Flowserve - Municipal Pump Applications section

Rich Owens, Vogelsang - Rotary Pumps section

Dan Pelon, Kontro Pumps (Sundyne Corporation) – Seal-less (mag-drive) Pumps section

Pat Prayne, Goulds Pump – Centrifugal Pumps section

John Purcell, Roper Pump – Progressing Cavity Pumps section

Hiram Tanner, DC WASA – Municipalities, Water and Wastewater Treatment section

Harry Urban, Water and Wastewater Digest magazine, Media sector

John Visotsky – Vibrations & Alignment section

John Waddington, City of Atlanta Water and Waste Water Treatment – Municipal Sector section

Chad Wunderlich, Viking Pump (Idex) – Rotary Gear Pumps section

Steve Young, MRC/SKF Bearings – Bearings and Lubrication section

Merat Zareii, DeKalb County, Atlanta, Municipalities, Water and Wastewater Treatment section