Course Details

This course is appropriate for a wide range of professionals but not limited to:

• Operation and Maintenance Engineers
• Maintenance Technicians 
• Maintenance Senior Technicians

• Expert-led sessions with dynamic visual aids
• Comprehensive course manual to support practical application and reinforcement
• Interactive discussions addressing participants’ real-world projects and challenges
• Insightful case studies and proven best practices to enhance learning

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the working principle of each type of pumps.
• Understand Guidelines and rules that must be followed for their successful application.
• Understand their basic designs, specification and selection criteria, and sizing calculations.
• Understand Pumps and compressors: Maintenance issues including vibration analysis and used oil analysis
• Carry out troubleshooting of critical components with knowledge of common failure modes of pumps and compressors by applying advanced fault detection techniques.
• Determine the maintenance required to minimize pumps and compressors downtime, pump operating cost and maximize their efficiency, reliability, and useful life.

DAY 1

• Pre-test
• Overview: The function of the pumps in the plant and pump types
• Pump & pumping terminology
• Centrifugal pumps: Working principle, components and classification
• Centrifugal pump operation and performance curves
• Centrifugal pumps installation, piping system and piping components
• Operation and maintenance problems.
• Overview: The various methods of sealing rotating equipment
• Fundamentals of mechanical seals, working principle and components
• Symptoms indicates centrifugal pump problems

DAY 2

• When do you need to stop centrifugal pump for inspection and overhauling
• The required steps to strip down the pump
• The required inspection for the centrifugal pump components
• General comments during re-assemble of the pump
• Mechanical seal installation
• Required checks after assemble the pump, running test
• Seal failures- causes and analyses of damage
• Mechanical seals repair Centrifugal compressor surge and surge prevention systems.

DAY 3

• Centrifugal pump predictive and preventive maintenance techniques
• How to improve the centrifugal pump efficiency? Determine all the futures that improve the efficiency and reliability of centrifugal pump efficiency.
• Positive displacement pumps operational problems
• Positive displacement pumps inspection and overhauling

Compressors

• What is the function of the compressor in the plant?
• Compressor terminology and technical terms
• Classification of compressors: Positive displacement and centrifugal compressors.
• Positive displacement compressors: Reciprocating and rotary positive displacement compressors.
• Reciprocating compressor: Working principle, components, and reciprocating compressor performance curves.

DAY 4

• Positive displacement compressors piping system, system components and their function.
• Reciprocating compressors multi-staging
• Reciprocating compressors monitoring system and operational problems.
• Reciprocating compressor operational problems and maintenance troubleshooting.
• Symptoms indicate reciprocating compressor problems
• Determine all the futures that improve the efficiency and reliability of reciprocating compressor efficiency?
• Reciprocating compressor selection for specific application
• Dynamic compressors: Centrifugal compressors, axial flow compressors working principle and components of each design.
• Centrifugal compressors: Working principle, components, and compressor performance curves.
• Mechanical Design of Centrifugal Compressors:
• Compressor Side Streams, Rotors, Balancing, Rotor Dynamics, Impellers, Casings, Bearings, Seals, Couplings, Controls
• Centrifugal compressor multi-staging
• Dry mechanical seals as used in centrifugal compressors
• Centrifugal compressors piping system, system components and their function.

DAY 5

• Centrifugal compressors monitoring system and operational problems.
• Centrifugal compressor operational problems and maintenance troubleshooting.
• Centrifugal compressor surge and surge prevention systems.
• Selection of centrifugal compressor for specific application
• Centrifugal compressor train inspection, maintenance and overhauling
• Centrifugal compressor predictive and preventive maintenance techniques
• How to improve the centrifugal compressor efficiency? Determine all the futures that improve the efficiency and reliability of centrifugal compressor efficiency.
• Open discussion for specific technical problems and case study
• Post-test