Overview of rotating equipment

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An Overview of Rotating Equipment

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Session Agenda:

1. An Overview of Rotating Equipment 

2. Prime Movers – Drivers

3. Rotating Equipment – Driven

4. Connectors – Modifiers & Couplings

Further Rotating Equipment:

5. Centrifugal Pumps

6. Positive Displacement Pumps

7. Summary and Conclusions

In most cases energy is transferred into rotating equipment, from a driving equipment (known as the Prime Mover) to the driven equipment (known as Rotating Equipment or the Functional Machine).

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Typical rotating equipment fitted with mechanical seals includes:

• centrifugal and positive displacement pumps

• centrifugal gas compressors and refrigeration compressors

• turbines (steam, gas, water, wind)

• agitators / mixers / reactors

• anywhere a rotating shaft passes through a stationary housing where product has to be contained

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