Typically, when talk turns to power plant pumps, boiler feed and cooling water pumps immediately dominate the discussion. And that’s as it should be: these pumps are critical to a plant’s thermal ...

A pilot project on a portable variable-speed-drive and load cell for obtaining counterbalance effect (CBE) data in the Duri steamflood improved the sucker-rod pumping efficiency from wells that had ...

The word ‘optimization’ can have various meanings and interpretations, but the benefits of optimization are straight forward: improve profitability while maintaining the same utility. Reliability has ...

Part I of this series introduced the lead/lag control strategy as it applies to parallel pump operation and discussed the need for identifying the designer’s intent for a particular system. Part II ...