Centrifugal Pumps: API 610, NPSH & Troubleshooting https://WebToolTip.com Published 8/2026
Created by ProjectEngPro Engineering and Project Management
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 20 Lectures ( 3h 43m ) | Size: 2.2 GB
Pump and system curves, NPSH and cavitation, API 610 selection, seals, bearings, nozzle loads and failure diagnosis
What you'll learn
⚡ Build a system curve and locate the true operating point against the pump curve, then predict how system changes move it
⚡ Calculate available suction head, compare it against required, and set a defensible margin
⚡ Diagnose cavitation, suction recirculation, air entrainment and vortexing from symptoms, noise and vibration
⚡ Troubleshoot a pump systematically — low flow, low head, high vibration, high power — from symptom to root cause
⚡ Select a pump from vendor curves, apply impeller trim correctly, and avoid the oversizing that causes chronic unreliability
⚡ Understand what happens away from the best efficiency point and where minimum continuous flow comes from
⚡ Apply API 610 requirements — pump types, materials classes, nozzle load tables and the datasheet fields that carry risk
⚡ Specify seals, bearings, lubrication and auxiliary systems, and recognise the auxiliary failures that stop the pump
⚡ Control installation quality — alignment, soft foot, baseplate stiffness, grouting and nozzle loads
⚡ Commission and performance test to the relevant tolerance bands, and build a condition monitoring and reliability programme
Requirements
❗ No prior rotating equipment experience is required — pump principles are built up from the start
❗ Any engineering or technical background is enough to follow the course
❗ Comfortable with basic algebra — every calculation is worked step by step
❗ Helpful but not essential: some familiarity with reading a pump curve or a P&ID
❗ No software or purchases needed — this is an applied machinery course