Pumps, Compressors & Turbines
Course Overview
This course provides a practical engineering overview of the operating principles, construction, performance, and common failure mechanisms of industrial pumps, compressors, and turbines. It explains how mechanical design, fluid behaviour, operating conditions, and auxiliary systems influence machinery reliability and performance.
Participants learn to interpret essential operating parameters, recognize abnormal behaviour, and connect process changes with vibration, temperature, pressure, and performance indicators. Industrial examples are used to demonstrate common problems and appropriate corrective actions.
Key Learning Objectives
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand the operation of major rotating equipment
- Identify principal components and auxiliary systems
- Interpret characteristic curves and performance parameters
- Recognize common mechanical and process-related faults
- Evaluate operating conditions and machinery health
- Support inspection, troubleshooting, and maintenance activities
Course Content
- Classification of pumps, compressors, and turbines
- Centrifugal and positive-displacement machinery
- Major components and mechanical construction
- Bearings, seals, couplings, and lubrication systems
- Pump curves, system curves, and operating points
- Cavitation, recirculation, and hydraulic instability
- Centrifugal and reciprocating compressor principles
- Compressor performance, surge, choke, and pulsation
- Gas and steam turbine fundamentals
- Rotor, blade, combustion, and steam-path considerations
- Performance deterioration and efficiency losses
- Common vibration and failure patterns
- Startup, shutdown, and operating considerations
- Inspection and condition monitoring practices
- Industrial machinery case studies
Who Should Attend?
Mechanical and process engineers, maintenance personnel, operators, reliability engineers, condition monitoring specialists, and engineers working with industrial rotating machinery.