• Principles of operation
• Thermodynamic and hydraulic evaluation
• Important performance parameters and selection considerations
• Methods to derive the above from first principles and empirical relationships
• Handling gas and gas mixture properties
• Interpretation of results

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Optimizing equipment performance
• Performance monitoring strategies
• General hydraulic concepts in relation to performance monitoring
• Centrifugal pumps - construction, operational principles, selection criteria, power requirements, efficiencies and losses, characteristic curves, performance calculations
• Gas properties - thermodynamic concepts and processes, Thermodynamic and gas laws, ideal gases, computation of gas properties, gas power cycles
• Reciprocating compressors - construction, operation, compression terms, performance calculations, evaluating efficiencies and methods to estimate them, analysis of PV diagrams
• Centrifugal and axial flow compressors - design and operational aspects, compression terms, performance calculations, evaluating adiabatic and polytropic efficiencies and methods to estimate them

Anyone who deals with design, selection, sizing, operation and maintenance of pumps and compressors in the course of their work, Asset Managers, Contract Managers, Electrical Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Managers, Mechanical Engineers, Municipal and Regional Planners, Operations Managers, Professional Engineers, Project Managers, Reliability Engineers, Utility Advisors and Planners

Introduction and Fundamentals

•  Equipment degradation and loss in efficiency
•  Optimizing equipment performance and establishing best maintenance practices
•  Introduction to performance monitoring
•  Performance monitoring strategies and techniques
•  Benefits of performance monitoring

Hydraulic Principles and Concepts

•  General liquid characteristics and properties
•  Concepts related to pressure, volume, flow, head and resistance
•  Pascal’s law and momentum equation
•  Hydraulic power and pump efficiency
•  Specific speed
•  Cavitation, recirculation and Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH)
•  Impact of jet on normally fixed plates, inclined fixed plates and hinge plates
•  Impact of jet on a fixed curved vane, moving curved vane and series of vanes
•  Velocity triangles

Centrifugal Pumps

•  Principle of working of centrifugal pumps
•  Centrifugal pump components
•  Range of operation
•  Selection considerations
•  Multi-stage operation in centrifugal pumps
•  Abnormal operation
•  Power requirements, efficiencies and losses in centrifugal pumps
•  Pump characteristic curves
•  Improving pump reliability
•  Performance calculations

Gas Properties and Thermodynamic Concepts

•  Basic thermodynamic concepts
•  Working substance and thermodynamic processes
•  State of a system and its transformations
•  Ideal gases
•  Equilibrium state
•  Overview of the various gas laws
•  Laws of thermodynamics
•  Gas power cycles

Reciprocating Compressors

•  Principle of operation and construction of reciprocating compressors
•  Classification of reciprocating compressors
•  Mechanism of a single-stage reciprocating compressor
•  Work done in a single-stage reciprocating compressor
•  Multi-stage reciprocating compressors
•  Work done in a multi-stage reciprocating compressor
•  Volumetric efficiency and performance
•  Achieving maximum efficiency in multi-stage reciprocating compressors
•  PV diagrams and their analysis

Centrifugal and Axial-Flow Compressors

•  Construction and principle of working of centrifugal compressors
•  Classification of centrifugal compressors
•  Design and operation of axial-flow compressors
•  Efficiency and performance characteristics
•  Adiabatic and polytropic efficiencies
•  Methods used to evaluate efficiencies

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.