Operator’s Guide to Centrifugal Pumps, Volume 2

About the Book

Many readers have found Operator's Guide to Centrifugal Pumps (Xlibris, 2008) to be a valuable training resource for process operators. Volume 2 provides additional training material in the form of student challenge exams and additional exposure to reliability topics.

Volume 2 has two goals: The first goal is to continue to build on the general theme of pump reliability in process facilitates. The second goal is to provide student challenge exams for those wanting to master the material in Operator's Guide to Centrifugal Pumps.

The first chapter covers how process operators can be better utilized to improve pump reliability. The importance of operating training and commissioning will be covered in the next two chapters. In the final chapter, a methodology for addressing troublesome centrifugal pumps is presented.

A majority of the book is comprised of three (3) different student challenge exams are included in Volume 2. Answers to all the exam questions are provided along with where the answers can be found in the Operator's Guide. There are a total of 150 challenge questions with their answers.

About the Author

Robert X. Perez has thirty years of rotating equipment experience in the petrochemical industry. He earned a BSME degree from Texas A&M University (College Station) and an MSME degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and he is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas. Mr. Perez served as an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he developed and taught the Engineering Technology Rotating Equipment course. He authored Operator's Guide to Centrifugal Pumps (Xlibris) in 2008 and coauthored with Andy Conkey Is My Machine OK? (Industrial Press) in 2011. In 2013, he completed writing Illustrated Dictionary of Essential Process Machinery Terms (Diesel Publications) with the help of several other contributors. This dictionary has been well-received by the community of rotating equipment professionals. In 2014, he coauthored Operator's Guide to Rotating Equipment (Authorhouse) with Julien Lebleu. He has also written numerous machinery reliability articles for numerous technical conferences and magazines.