Pumps as Turbines: Fundamentals and Applications

Description

This book provides users, pump manufactures, engineers, researchers and students with extensive information about pump’s behavior in reverse operation. It reports on cutting-edge methods for selecting the proper PAT and improving PAT’s efficiency, discusses PAT’s reliability, economic issues and environmental impact as well. The book describes in detail electromechanical equipment of PAT systems, their installation and operation, and gives important practical insight into the use of PAT in water transmission and distribution systems, as part of thermal power plants and cooling systems, in oil distribution systems and other systems as well. It reports on different types on PAT control modes as well as on numerical methods useful for PAT analysis and implementation. All in all, the book represents a comprehensive practice-oriented reference-guide to design engineers, as well as PAT general users and manufactures. It also provides researchers with extensive technical information on the use of PAT thus fostering new discussions and ideas to improve current methods and cope with future challenges. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 3-26 Reverse Pump Theory (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 27-57 Industrial Aspects of PAT Design Improvement (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 59-73 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 PAT Selection (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 77-96 PAT Control Systems (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 97-116 Civil Engineering Design, Electromechanics, Installation and Operation (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 117-136 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 Location of a PAT in a Water Transmission and Distribution System (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 139-171 PAT System Economic Analysis (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 173-187 Application of PAT Technology (Armando Carravetta, Shahram Derakhshan Houreh, Helena M. Ramos)....Pages 189-218