The most efficient and reliable pump systems worldwide

Ruhrpumpen is an innovative and efficient pump technology company that offers highly-engineered and standard pumping solutions for the oil & gas, power generation, industrial, chemical and water markets. We offer a broad range of centrifugal and reciprocating pumps that meet and exceed the requirements of the most demanding quality specifications and industry standards such as API, ANSI, ISO and Hydraulic Institute.

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Our Global Proposal System (GPS) is an internet based program that allows users to make an accurate and detailed selection of centrifugal and reciprocating pumps for their specific needs, size a pump for a new application or get performance information of an existing pumping unit.

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Ruhrpumpen's Technical Development Center offers a series of tailored courses focused to the pumping system market

The investment you make in your equipment is all the more profitable when it is operated safely by qualified personnel. More than 65 years of experience give us the knowledge to offer your workforce a variety of comprehensive technical pump training programs for the industry that:

Maximize the performance of your pumping system
Improve safety
Reduce operating costs
Increase your return on investment

Our world class training centers, located in Witten, Germany and in Monterrey, Mexico, together with our training teams around the globe, provide the latest computer technology, training assistance, equipment and techniques to provide cutting-edge information. Moreover, our tailored courses can be matched to the experience levels and needs of our customers in their specialized fields. This way, our team is able to provide the seminars in our training centers or tailored courses may be arranged at your facilities.

In case of customized training packages, it is possible to arrange technical practices as a complement of the theorical contents. These practices can be done in our facilities (training or service centers) or in our client's facilities. Technical practices cover field and/or engineering services such as: vibration analysis, material nondestructive examination, failure analysis and performance testing.

Pump Fundamentals - Basic course

Centrifugal pump fundamentals training

Audience: engineers; plant operational and maintenance personnel that aim to improve their understanding of centrifugal pumps and their operation.

Objectives: to understand how centrifugal pumps work and identify the different pump types and why they're used; understand pump curves.

Topics:

Physical principles of a centrifugal pump
Pump systems
Pump types
How to operate a pump
Main components
Testing
Condition monitoring

Pump Design - Advanced course

Advanced training on pump system design

Audience: engineers; plant operational and technical services personnel.

Objectives: to define and generate the ideal prototype that satisfies the needs of a pump system.

Topics:

General layout
Standards, codes and regulations
Materials
Installation requirements, external forces and moments
Bearing concepts
Impeller design
Rotor-dynamics

Pump Hydrodynamics - Advanced course

Advanced training on pump system hydrodynamics

Audience: engineers; plant operational and technical services personnel.

Objectives: to analyze and compare physically each of the main points that intervene in a hydrodynamic system.

Topics:

Fluid dynamics
Specific speed
The importance of the impeller in the system
Volute design
NPSH
Cavitation
Pump selection
Operating systems

Pump Vibration - Advanced course

Advanced training on how to measure and control the vibration in centrifugal pumps

Audience: engineers; plant operational and technical services personnel who are new to vibration monitoring and analysis.

Objectives: to analyze the effects and consequences caused by misalignment and improper balancing of the elements of a pumping system through a study of mechanical vibration analysis; to find solutions and establish maintenance practices to prevent vibration.

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