As pointed out in prior columns, the second leading cause of pump breakdowns is bearing failures. This is due in part because fewer than 10 to 30 percent of all ball bearings run long enough to ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a three-stage fault diagnosis strategy for multistage centrifugal pumps. First, the proposed method identifies and selects fault characteristic modes of vibration to ...

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Abstract: Centrifugal pumps are an integral part of many industrial processes and are used extensively in water supply, sewage, heating and cooling systems. While there are several review papers on ...