Water hammer due to Pump Trips and Switchover in a Process Plant
Why take this course?
This self-paced course provides a clear understanding of pump curves and pump inertia in relation to water hammer. Learn how pump trips and switchover events influence system behavior and gain targeted knowledge for managing water hammer in pump-driven systems. The course includes video lectures, quizzes, and awards a certificate with PDH credits upon completion.
What you'll learn
After completing this course, you...
• have an understanding of pump curves,
• understand pump inertia and its impact on water hammer,
• familiar with how water hammer can arise due to pump trip,
• have seen how pump switchover can cause water hammer.
About the course
This course is designed to give you a clear understanding of the role of pump curves and pump inertia in water hammer events. You’ll explore how pump trips can lead to water hammer and examine the effects of pump switchover. This provides you with targeted knowledge on managing water hammer in pump-driven systems.
Meet your instructor
Dynaflow Research Group
Dynaflow Research Group is an engineering consultancy working across piping design and analysis, flow dynamics, vibration, FRP piping, pressure equipment and specialist engineering software. Its experience includes EN and ASME design rules for piping and pressure vessels, buried piping, water hammer, pulsation, dynamic stress assessment, vibration measurement, FEA tools, BOSfluids, BOSpulse, PV Elite and NozzlePRO workflows.
Who should attend this course
• Those involved with performing pressure surge analysis and system evaluation.• Engineers that need to be able to understand reporting of pressure surge analysis for their system at hand.
Program & Details
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Water hammer due to Pump Trips and Switchover in a Process Plant
1. The pump trip scenario
2. Results upstream and downstream of the pump (amongst others: pressure fluctuations, flow, unbalanced loads)
3. The influence of pump moment of inertia and initial steady state flow
4. Pump curves
5. Cavitation downstream of the pump
6. System (pump) start-up scenarios
7. Good practices & pump properties
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