- Pump History
- Module 1 gets the students familiar with pump history. You will learn the history of the development of pumps and features of the use of pumps in the power industry.
- Classification and construction of pumps
- In this module you will get acquainted with the classification of pumps, their principle of operation, design and installation.
- The main nodes of the pump design
- In this module you will be introduced to the main components of the pump design: casings, inlets, taps, rotors, seals and bearings.
- Pump stage theory
- In this module, you cover topics such as basic operating parameters, centrifugal pump stage theory, forces exerting on the impeller, cavitation and stage theory of axial flow pump.
- Pump characteristic
- In this module you will look at the various pump characteristics: theoretical and real.
- Pump operation in the system
- This final module is about the specifics of pumping on a network. In it you will consider pump operation in the system, flow rate regulation and pump instability.
