Pumps (ITRC)

Training and educational opportunities for staff, engineers, and water operators of agricultural irrigation districts.
About this Event

This class is sponsored by the USBR, California-Great Basin Region (REGION 10). Priority registration is given to staff members of districts within the California-Great Basin Region. Other participants will be permitted only as space allows. If you work outside of the CGB Region (Region 10), please contact our office to be placed on a wait list.

This three-day course is a series of training and educational opportunities for staff, field operators, engineers, and board members of agricultural irrigation/water districts. The classes held in San Luis Obispo utilize the excellent indoor and outdoor facilities at ITRC. The course includes the following topics:

Types of rotating pumps, pump terms, pump curves, pumps in series and parallel, system curves, TDH computations for vertical and booster pumps, efficiency, WHP, BHP, input HP, pump selection from catalogs, trimming impellers, answers to common pump questions.Net positive suction head, submersible pumps, well screens, shaft losses, shaft sizing, maintenance and troubleshooting, variable frequency drive (VFD) basics, retrofitting VFDs on existing motors, affinity laws for variable speed operation, how to estimate savings from VFDs, hands-on VFD application, power factor correction, inlet and sump design.