Clínica de Bombas Centrifugas - Karassik

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Suggested examples are added to each chapter and once one has adjusted to the format, the text is
for further study, but the student reader may need eminently readable and the overall presentation is
the guidance of a tutor as solutions to the problems clear. The method used for emphasising certain
are not given. The units used throughout the book words or phrases b y underlining them is visually
are Imperial/North American. unattractive. The binding, in hard back, is sound.
The text appears at first sight to be congested. D. L. Smith
This is due in part to the extensive descriptive ICI Ltd, Cleveland, UK
material and to the fact that the print, and the
sketches, are relatively small. However, this keeps Published price SFr 89 by Marcel DekkerAG, Elisabeth6nstrasse
the book to a reasonable size (250 pages, Octavo) 19, Postfach34, 4010 B[tsel, Switzerland
Centrifugal pump clinic of cavitation inception, which is perhaps because he

quotes references of 1937 vintage. The format also
I. J. Karassik leads to great difficulty in tracing specific topics
without reading the whole book each time. This is
Compared to a conventional text, this is a somewhat not helped by an incomplete index at the back.
unusual book; its basis was some queries the author Despite these criticisms, there is an enormous
received on problems in centrifugal pumps, which amount of most useful information given that is
later appeared as a series of articles. The questions rarely found in other books. Although the items such
and answers were mainly to allow the readers to as trimming impeller dimensions to get a specific
improve the operation and installation of their plant. head or flow is very useful, the reviewer especially
This book, then, is a selection of these articles appreciated the information not easily found else-
and in consequence appears as a series of questions where. This clearly includes much of the authors
and answers, roughly gathered together in chapters advice and opinions on design and installation, but
on applications, pump construction, installation, also such things as the effect of altitude on NPSH,
maintenance and field troubles. Thus, the readers information on wear ring clearances and the effect
who would benefit are plant engineers and design of wear on the performance characteristics. Another
engineers, rather than those with academic or theo- useful topic was the operation of two pumps in series
retical leanings. The author also includes recent or parallel, and the differences involved as to whether
graduates in those that could benefit from its use. the pumps had steep or fiat characteristics, an impor-
Nearly 200 problems are detailed, ranging tant aspect which is usually ignored.
from an explanation of suction specific speed to Whether looking for data on specification,
installation questions such as how to arrange suction technical factors or mechanical aspects, engineers
piping. Equal balance is given to hydraulic problems involved in the practical side of centrifugal pumps
such as cavitation, pump selection and mechanical will find this a valuable addition to their book-
matters and plant installation. shelves.
Personally I don't like the format as the author
has had to include a lot of text book material in his
I. S. Pearsall
problems to offer a satisfactory explanation. This I Fluids Division,
feel, would be better written as a section of text with National Engineering Laboratory,
the problems following as examples. Likewise, the East Kilbride, Glasgow,
layout adopted means the facts are mixed up with UK, G75 OQU
the authors opinion and advice, with some of which,
for instance the conditions for cavitation damage, I Published, priced SFr 118, by Marcel Dekker AG, Elisabethen-
would not agree. He also reiterates old definitions strasse 19 Postfach34, 4010 Basel, Switzerland
C IL,EHD R
International Symposium on 5-7 July 1982 M. Y. Corapcioglu, College of Engineering, Dept of Civil
Applications of Laser Doppler Lisbon, Portugal Engineering, 130 Dupont Hall, Universityof Delaware,
Anemometry to Fluid Newark, DE 19711, USA
Mechanics
Professor J. H. Whitelaw, Mechanical Engineering Department,
Imperial College, London, UK, SW7
Mechanics of Fluids in Porous 18-27 July 1982
Media Newark, DE, USA
Turbine and Vortex 27-29 July 1982 Miss A. L. Roff, Short Course Officer,Cranfield Institute of
Flowmeters (Short Course) Cranfield, UK .Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, UK, MK430AL
17th Intersociety Energy 8-13 August 1982 J. Chiffriller,AIChE Meetings Department, 345 East 47th
Conversion Engineering Los Angeles, CA, USA Street, New York, NY 10017, USA
Conference
AIChE Summer 1982 National 29 August-1 September 1982 T.Gilson, SOHIO, CuyahogaBuilding, Cleveland, OH 44114,
Meeting Cleveland, OH, USA USA
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