Sensors:

Each sensor provides useful machine condition data and timely alerts if alarm thresholds are exceeded. The information collected helps to optimize equipment, understand equipment health, improve preventative maintenance strategies, and understand equipment failure modes. Efficient process management and timely maintenance are critical to your bottom line.

• Data Collection
• Storage
• Access Warnings & Alarms
• Data Analysis
• Engineering Services
• Solution Implementation
• Automated Reports

Gateway:

Hydro's gateways relay data from the sensors to the cloud. A collection gateway is typically connected to the cloud using one of the following: Cellular, Wi-Fi, or LAN. The Wireless Condition Monitoring System monitors the health of industrial equipment, helping you to optimize operations and identify problems before equipment failure.

Why Hydro?

Hydro has diversified and in-depth pump knowledge that we believe is unique in the industry. While OEMs traditionally focused on repairing their own equipment, Hydro has from the outset developed a knowledge base that includes experience across a broad spectrum of pump manufacturers and pump designs.

We have the unique capability of understanding the different designs and materials employed by various manufacturers as well as their successes or failures in specific applications and operating environments. Based on this data, Hydro is in an excellent position to improve original designs for their intended service. Our high rate of repeat business is a testimonial to the performance improvements that Hydro has been able to achieve.

The Test Lab is designed in compliance with Hydraulic Institute Standards and API 610. It’s capable of testing horizontal, vertical, and submersible pumps up to 5,000 HP. With pump testing at Hydro, Inc.’s Test Lab, customers can improve reliability, reduce unforeseen costs, and prevent pump failures.

Testing can be applied to new pumps, refurbished pumps, or re-engineered pumps with the focus being on reliability, assurance of meeting the required operating conditions, and measuring the actual changes in performance if a change was made.

The rising cost of electrical power has caused many industrial plants to shift their focus to energy efficiency. Plants often run pumping equipment continuously, and much research has pointed to opportunities for cost savings by optimizing pumping equipment. When evaluating the potential for energy savings, end users cannot consider a pump in isolation. The suitability of the pump for the system within which it operates is vital. Even the best designed and most efficient equipment offers power-saving potential if it is run off its best efficiency point (BEP) in a system for which it is ill-applied.

Inspection: Hydro’s very thorough and detailed inspection process is the foundation of a quality repair that can prevent recurring problems, extend pump life and reduce long-term repair costs.

During the inspection process, we often uncover issues that, if left unattended, could result in premature failure of a component and the pump. The inspection of a multi-stage pump can involve taking over 900 separate readings. Not only do we record dimensional data, but we also take extensive hardness readings on the impellers and analyze the hydraulic passageways for appropriate A & B Gap dimensions. The inspection process and the report of our findings is a great opportunity for Hydro engineers and technicians to work with the customer’s maintenance team to discuss options for not only repairing but for improving the pump’s performance and reliability.

Rotor Centralization: In Hydro’s drive to increase pump reliability and extend pump life, we have pioneered several engineering improvements including a process we refer to as Rotor Centralization.

Hydro has found that in many cases the impeller and diffuser centerlines of diffuser style pumps are not lined up. This causes turbulent flow which results in hydraulic instability, vibration, increased stress on all components, and reduced efficiency. To correct these problems, Hydro performs a detailed dimensional analysis to establish the centerline relationship of the pump’s stationary and rotating components. The rotor is then modified to ensure centerline compatibility at each stage of the pump.

Rotor Balancing: The benefit of achieving 1 W/N rotor balance is significantly reduced vibration levels that should dramatically reduce premature bearing and ring wear and substantially increase the MTBR of the pump. It is not unusual for multi-stage pumps repaired by Hydro to these stringent standards to experience a life of 11 years without degradation in efficiency.

Hydro University offers a breadth of online technical webinars, e-learning classes, and applied knowledge digital workshops for end-users. The topics are expansive, covering a depth of knowledge such as centrifugal pump fundamentals, system optimization, vibration, failure modes, and many more.

Our practicing professionals equip you with the essential knowledge to optimize your rotating equipment operations. Together with Hydro University, you can develop into an expert in the field of industrial pumps.