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May 16th 2012    Pump Systems Matter Pump Systems Optimization
7 PDH hours
May 30th 2012    Design Considerations for Lean Operating Budgets
3.5 PDH (GA only)
June 4-6 2012  GAWP Maintenance Technologist Class 3 days
At GAWP in Cobb County $285.00
June 13th 2012    Performance and System Curves
1.5 PDH (GA only)
June 20th 2012    Making the Case for Change-Mining your Pump System for Operating Cash
3.5 PDH (GA only)

As always class hours are subject to license requirements.

It's no secret that the cost of ownership increases with the age of equipment. Being able to reduce age related expenses can extend the useful life of your equipment and offer a leaner more profitable direction for your utility, muniipality, or industry. Flygt pumps and Flygt Controls partnered with our expertise can provide you with a valuable partnership and significant cost savings.

Taking the time to evaluate your operation, and lead it into changes to realize profits from existing resources takes commitment and strong partnerships with support groups such as a state association or national association. In our industry we partner as suppliers with organizations such as Hydraulic Institute, Pump Sytems Matter, WEF, AWWA, and other organizations in states and municipalities, offering our technical expertise and industry rooted experience.

It is partnerships like these that lead to advancements and new ways of approaching life long systemic problems inherent to processes such as Municipal Wastewater Transport (FOG, RAGGING, SCADA), Construction and Mining (Abrasives, low/high Ph), Industrial Process (high temperature applications, high suspended solids), Storm Water Transport (corrosion, high flow low lead applications).

The latest trends still support a direction our industry was headed prior to the economic slowdown over the last few years. We are still trying to make the most of our exisiting resources.  Experience tells us that takes data.  We need to know what we have, what condition its in, and what will it need in 3 mos, 6mos, 1 yr, 5, yrs from now.  We need to be able to measure performance and match it to benchmarks automatically so that we perform maintenance on a problem that is about to occur rather than reacting to one that demands immediate attention.

By collecting measured flow data, current data, and motor and pump health sensor data, a manager can evaluate and prioritize work to be scheduled in advance of an expected failure.  The pumps submittal data should offer a great place to start the benchmark process along with information collected at start-up.  As data comes in alarm points can be set to trigger work order notices (but not actual alarms, this is preventive service not an emergency callout). The work is scheduled and no emergency occurs. The asset is preserved and a catastrophic repair averted. That's right, a repair for less money on standard labor rates, no overtime.

In some cases having spare equipment, or equipment that can move from station to station helps to insure that the process is always scheduled by allowing the utility to swap out pumps as one goes in for service and the other remains in its place until it is repaired.  Not every station is high flow high risk. If you can move a pump from site A to site B to reduce the risk of a High Risk (drinking water supply at risk or public recreation) spill then it is worth it.

Management is Measurement, Measuremnt is Prevention, and the collection of system data, creation of operational standards and emergency plans is only part of the process. The emergencies have to be prevented by anticipating possible failures through data evaluation. The operation of the system has to be evaluated to decrease power, chemical, and manhour losses and get profitable preventive work out of the same staff that is currently chasing problems.

There are several ways to get started on this path:

Pump Systems Matter has partnered with Hydraulic Institute and the US Department of Energy to help systems learn how to evaluate their processes and start catalogging their systems based on the highest potential for resource ($) savings. Most people are very surprised to finfd out how little a more efficient motor plays in the ability to recoup power costs in a system. In most cases system changes or operational changes yield savings on an order of 2 to 3 times what is possible with just a motor change.

Engineering firms can provide some of these services for you as well, but you have to be involved. This is not something that you want to farm out. You need to know your equipment.

Our folks here at Flygt can help asses your current design standards to help move into the next phase of developing your system. We strive to find the most efficient AND reliable pump for your system. A pump is only efficient if its working. The application has to be considered as all of our industry measure pump performance on clean water.  We strive to provide a pump that will provide years of service with minimal down time and clogging, especially with our new N pumps and the award winning adaptive N impeller system. To us, top materials, intelligent design, and industry leading innovation are part of who we are.

With hard times comes hard choices but this one is easy. Let's talk saving money, using what you have, and saving money with what you plan for in the future. Call us at Flygt today, like we have been for decades, we'll be there, and we'll help.

Norman Veamoi

Flygt Georgia

770-932-4320

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Pump Systems Optimization:

Energy Efficiency and Bottom-Line Savings

Attend this one-day course to learn how to identify and reduce hidden operation and energy costs, and:

• Increase profitability

• Increase reliability

• Earn seven PDH credits

Develop the skills needed to identify significant energy savings opportunities!

At the “Pump Systems Optimization” one-day course, you will gain valuable new skills

that will help you improve centrifugal pump* system efficiency to reduce energy and

operating costs.

Topics include:

• Why Efficient Pump Systems Are Important

• Systems Optimization and Improvement

Opportunities

• Basic Pump System Interaction

• Screening Pump Systems

• Improving the Performance of Pump Systems

• Life-Cycle Cost Analysis

• Developing an Action Plan

• ASME Pump Systems Energy Assessment Standard (available at www.Pumps.org/ASME)

• ISO 50001 for Energy Management Systems

When pump systems are not optimized for best efficiency, they drain corporate profits with higher energy and maintenance costs, shorten mean time between repairs and increase CO2 emissions. Optimized pump systems are not just more energy efficient, they are typically more reliable as well.

At the “Pump Systems Optimization” course, you will learn how to develop skills to identify a broad range of system improvement opportunities, determine where to focus efforts in your own organization and develop an Action Plan with financial justification. Your organization will quickly see a return on your investment.

You will earn seven professional development hours (PDH) from the Hydraulic Institute, an approved provider of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Professional Engineers.

Xylem Water Solutions USA inc. Presents:

Performance and System Curves

May 4th 2010

by Jonathan Simmons
presented by Norman Veamoi (with additions) 

An in depth review of the components that make up the application of pump performance curves to pipe systems and the considerations necessary when choosing a pump for your system.

Topics include:

VFD Appications
Multiple Pumps
Multiple Systems
Analysis of system changes vs pump changes for life cycle cost
Analysis of hydraulic gradient and the risks associated with failing to maintain it.

Click Here to Register

Location:
Xylem Water Solutions USA, Inc.
90 Horizon Drive
Suwanee GA 30024

Phone:
770-932-4320