I have been working for more than 10 years as rotating engineer in water treatment plant and offshore oil n gas industry where the pump require either ANSI or API 610 type. But for me, this uncle has produced one of the best explanation in youtube and easy to be understood by our normal people in the world

What a great teacher. Wish i could've attended to his lectures. Most of this stuff i had to figure out on my own and with the books

I am utterly amazed watching these videos...i am a 50 year old guy who was never good in math and science but have an overabundance of curiosity about how things work. I feel lucky to live in a time where i can look anything up on youtube and get some undestanding about how the physical world works around me. Also, i had no idea how involved pumps were...meaning the engineering behind the pump.

Feel like this prof is more like a coach, you don't wanna let him down. I bet students work their tail off for him because he's engaged in the learning process.

Am over 2 years in pump industry as engineer. Splendid, crystal clear sir. Thank you.

Excellent lecture, Dr. Biddle. My professor doesn't even try to explain and solve these problems. Thank you very much.

All I can say is brilliant and thank you. Thank you for sharing!!

Muchas gracias. Excelente explicación. I am an electrical engineer and these concepts are very useful for me. Thank you very much.

Thanks for including time stamps in these videos!

What a great teacher! I am electrical engineer but just enjoy listening and understanding...

Thank Prof for the great lectures!

Great lecture, remembering when I was in university. Now I work in small business servicing pump, and this lecture is realy helpfull. Thanks Prof

This video is great, a lot of good information presented in a clear manner. Thanks!

It is crazy how I can watch those lessons for free. Thank you very much.

I left my class for this topic,but luckily i found this video,it's about 2 days bfr exam,,i watched it,,excellent lecture,,hope my final exam become good

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It´s such an amazing class, thank you so much for this video , I got a brief summary about centrifugal pumps which I learned through the university.

Excellent Lecture. Pretty Understandable

Thank you prof. what a simple straight forward outstanding explanation!..

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Great Teacher ,nice channel, improve my listening and English on engineering.

If you try and do the math on minute 44:48, on the replacement of V, Q=AV, so you should have V=Q/A. Thus, V=4Q/(pi*D^2). V=4Q/pi with D=1.

This is a beautiful culmination of my pumps course. the clarity of it brings tears to my eyes.

Informative and pretty good.

Best lecturer. Thanks

Thank you sir for sharing this valuable informations !

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Excellent lecture

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Beautiful Class Thanks Prof

Appreciated the clear explanations and real-world practical focus.

Excellent explanation

just loved the lecture, gorgeous explanation, for anyone wondering how is H vs Q is plotted it is drawn by EULERS MOMENTUM EQUATION Your welcome

This professor is a legend, I wish I had him as teacher at University 😮

Well explained...thanks a lot

this is great info, I'm studying for my next wastewater certification and notice a few differences. Total dynamic head and Head in general is always referd to as the verticle distance the water has to be pumed (measured in feet). But it sounds like head is just any force acting to restrict flow? Also Cavitaion is described only happening at the impeller near the inlet or outlet and not in the pipe itself. this is due to the pressure difference across the impeller. the bubbles are formed by rapid pressure loss and on implotion they take part of the impeller with them and they sound like BBs in the pump. again, great video. i enjoyed getting away from the text book for a bit.

Thank you very much sir... really appreciate it 🙏...

Thanks for your effort. One tip though, unlike the case in the pump sketch you showed, for centrifugal pumps and compressors, the suction side is always one standard size larger than the discharge size. This is to minimize losses and, consequently, reduce cavitation possibilities.

The equation provided to calculate delta z based on NPSH is for the case that the water level at the supply reservoir is below the water level at the demand reservoir. So, for the case which is shown in the video, the water level at the downstream reservoir should be lower than that the water level at point 1 and for this case: delta z (minimum water level difference between two reservoirs)= (Pa-Pv)/gamma - NPSH (for available pump) -HL (all head losses) as shown in the video. It is not surprising that if the difference in water levels reduced to values less than delta Z, cavitation is expected to take place. For the other case if the water level at the demand or downstream reservoir is greater than the water level at supply reservoir (most cases), delta Z (Max different in water levels)= NPSH (of the available pump)- (Pa-Pv)/gamma +HL (all head losses) and in this case if the water level at supply reservoir or the well is dropped to lower depth, than the difference in the water levels increased to values more than computed delta Z and we expect cavitation will take place in this situation.

thank you very much professor!!!

I got an exam tomorrow. My prof sucks. You are great. Thank you

Thank you sir.. I like ur way

Great explains 👍

my supervisor recommend this video i was in search of topic for research.

Thank you for sharing

Thank you very much

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Very good vid

Thank you

Thanks good video

Actually V=Q/A (Cross sectional area of pipe)

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Hey it would be great if the handout was posted for this video.

thank you

Thank you sir for the explannation, it helped understand the fundamentals better. Also, I would like to add a note on vapor pressure. Vapor pressure of Water @ 15degC unit shall be read in Pa (i.e 1666 Pa)

Thank you for your lacture.. I learnt a lot and but why the H vs Q curve by manufacturer is decreasing while system head curve is increasing..However, I know, at 0 flow, head will be maximum and if flow will increase, head will be go down because pressure will be reduced but please make me clear on what basis or data manufacturer plot H vs Q.

How to find his lectures about Turbine & compressor

dear DR. AT 45 MIN there is a little error Q=VA so V=Q/A SO it well be V=Q 4/ π D^2 thanks lot ...

Hi teacher I would like to thank you for your wonderful explanation and I want to know why in the pump efficiency chart, when the height increases, the discharge decreases,please

47:42, when Q=0, Hs=150. But how at increased flow rate Q=500, Hs is also increasing to 150.5? Because according to the curve at increased flow rate head decreases. Isn't it?

Great class, what's the professor's name?, he mentions 'his book' and I'd like to check it out....thanks CPPMechEngTutorials guys !

great tutorial for a EE....At 25.00 regarding NPSH, visually the water tank is below the pump, the Z is the height between the two. How would the analysis change, if the pump was below and the water tank was above? I would think the ABS | Patm -Pv | may be a more general solution to avoid an answer with a -Z value.

Thank you for the great video. I have a question about the effect of temperature on the characteristics curve of the pump. How does the characteris curve of a centrifugal pump change with the decrease in temperature provided that the pump power is constant. A reference material to read would of great help. Thank you

Thank yu sir

Got it sir

Would cavitation also occur if boiling coolant (car's cooling system) is flowing through the pump? Pump would be at the lowest point in the system. I'm really curious about this

Thanks for some great videos! This is probably a shot in the dark, but could anyone help me reference to the book he is using. I’m in the middle of a thesis but I cant seem to find alot of good theoretical references on the subject.

Hello Sir, Can you drive the specific speed formoula? How we have got the range for every type?

How can we calculate the flow rate of a split type centrifugal pump if we know the refrigerant flow rate through the chiller's evaporator?

please Sir If the inlet fluid is subcold ( at low temperature ) but the liquid is entering the pump at low pressure and the impeller will start swirling the liquid and create bubbles just as when you move your hand quickly on water surface you will create water bubbles though the inlet pressure is above the vapor pressure is that possible

may i know which textbook you guys used? and where can i get the copy?

It was great👍 thank you so much, but I should say the teacher made a tiny mistake, at the end of the video he wrote Q=V/A, actually it is wrong and the correct formula is Q=A.V

Hello, could anyone tell me how pump curve is determined at a certain speed however the input power = ( torque x angular velocity). so, to get more discharge we need more input power by increasing velocity and then by applying the efficiency formula (output power / input power) we can draw an efficiency curve. so, how this curve could be at a certain velocity?

Great lecture indeed but I'm confused where did the professor get 175 and 140ft to generate the pump head curve?

I just want to know that shouldn't the peak of efficiency be below the horsepower curve?

Good

Thank you so much for the excellent lecture prof. I have one question: why the efficiency form on previous graph is different from those of pump performance map?

Is NPSH used for the single purpose of determining the maximum elevation which the liquid can be raised?

How do you arrive to the equation which include the term Hp?

What a great teacher, where do you teach, i want to join one of your classes

Sir what will happen if pump is run at very low head than rated head... There will be low efficiency i know. What other practical problems will occur.

ΦΙΛΙΕ ΣΕ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ, ΔΕΣ ΠΩΣ ΚΑΝΟΥΝΕ ΜΑΘΗΜΑ ΣΕ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΩ. Do you know If I could find the document that was given to the students? Thank you

When you run the pump at a constant speed, how do you increase the flowrate through the pump?

Is there a theoretical derivation for the shape of a pump curve? I guessed maybe a centrifugal pump imparts constant energy per unit mass to whatever fluid passes through it. Then you'd get E = constant (for any given fluid density) = P + (1/2)dv^2 (d is density), or h = E/(dg) - Q^2/(2gA^2). This has the shape of an upside down parabola (right basic shape), but when I try to compare it to real pump curves, the real curves turn downwards something on the order of 100 times faster than my theoretical model. Do you know why this might be? Am I making some unit conversion error, or is the whole thought process just wrong? If the real pump curves turned down something like 10-50% faster than the theoretical one, I'd be happy, because I guess the pump doesn't conserve energy perfectly and it doesn't have the same efficiency at all operating ranges. But getting a result 10,000% different than the theory is unsatisfying.

Love this defining of all abbreviations .... thats unfotunately not standart any more...

@ 23:13 the Pv should have been in Pa not kPa, looking at chart now and its interpolated between 1.227 and 2.337 kPa or 1227 Pa and 2337 Pa respectively. Therefore 1666 should be is Pascals units not kilo-pascals.

how can we increase Q at constant V ? Area? I mean with velocity diagrams we can calculate everything then why we need graphs for?

Near 31st minute: It seems, we put g instead of 9.81 [m/s^2] in the N's formula JUST TO MAKE THE FORMULA VALID ON THE MOON. On the moon, g is small, the pump head H is big, hence g*H is the same as on earth.

Dr. Biddle, Good day to you. Which textbook are you using?

I have a question, If a centrifugal pump flow limit is from 60 LPM to 535 LPM at 3500 rpm, does the low flow limit of 60 LPM changes with running the pump at lower rpm? Does this limit changes goes down when we run the pump at lower rpm?

on NPSH example problem, Patm defined by value of 101000 kPa. Should it be valued 101 kPa if Pv also in kPa? CMIIW

Great class. One would intuitively think that the velocity of the fluid at the discharge of the pump is higher than the suction velocity. Apparently, this is not true, because the professor is neglecting that difference. I would like to understand better the reason behind it. Any advice?

Check me out but at 25:10 the 101kpa makes it 101,0000 Pa which is NPSH is 7.4 METERS then that makes sense with the whole equation to make the units workout. But he wrote that vapor pressure is 1666 kPa and then out it in the equation as that value so there's a mistake on that one way or the other. Either it was incorrectly labeled with the kPa units initially or he should've left the Patm in 101 kPa form and converted later. Can someone confirm?

Where i can find the explaination of chapter 10 ?

Professor: why is the velocity difference between point 1 and 2 very small? Shouldn’t the velocity at point 2 be very high because impeller blade is pushing the liquid and velocity should increase significantly.

Which Text book he is referring to?