
Pump System Optimization and Assessment Course - March 15, 2023
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Pump System Optimization and Assessment Course
March 15, 2023 | 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. EST
Overview
Pump System Optimization(PSO) and Assessment (PSA) Live Virtual Course offers participants the same instructors, training systems, course materials, personal support, and face-to-face engagement with instructors and other participants that they would expect to find in a conventional classroom. The PSO/PSA course brings participants together in a virtual classroom, where they receive training from the experts via a live video link. The Participants are inter-connected via audio and video, enabling them to interact both with the the instructor and their classmates. learners can speak to their instructor at any time to ask questions, request assistance, and the instructors can provide hands-on support.
Course Objectives
- Benefits of pump system optimization and assessment
- Pump system costs & financial analysis
- Review of Pump system fundamentals
- Pump system optimization methods
- Pump system assessment process
- Basic pump maintenance practices, and reliability metrics
- Field measurements, system drawings, schematics, flow diagrams and control schemes
- Tools and software to support pump system optimization
- Recommendations for cost effective optimization
- Pump system assessment report
Course Materials
Participants will also receive the following course materials:
- Pump System Optimization and Assessment Course Manual in Electronic Format
- Pump System Optimization Guidebook in Electronic Format – Retail Value $205
- Follow-up activities such as webinars and surveys
Pump System Optimization & Assessment 1-Day Course Outline
- Introduction to and benefits of pump system optimization and assessment
- Optimization Example
- Pump system costs
- Life cycle costs & financial analysis
- Estimating pump system energy costs
- Pump system fundamentals
- Pump & system curve review
- Modifying the operating point example
- Pump selection best practices
- Pump system optimization process
- Optimization exercise
- Optimization case studies
- Pump System Assessment
- Basic pump maintenance practices, and reliability metrics
- Field measurements, system drawings, schematics, flow diagrams and control schemes
- Tools and software to support pump system optimization
- Pump system assessment process
- Pump system assessment report

Rafiq Qutub
M.Eng., P.Eng., PSAP
GEI Consultants
Rafiq is a senior project manager and environmental engineer with GEI Consultants with 17 years of experience in the design and construction of municipal water and wastewater pumping systems. He has been active with the Hydraulic Institute since 2015 and has served on the Application Guideline for Variable Speed Pumping and ANSI/HI 9.6.6 Pump Piping committees. Rafiq is a certified Pump System Assessment Professional and an Authorized Training Instructor with the Hydraulic Institute and delivers regular training courses on pump systems fundamentals and optimization. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering and an Advanced Certificate in Environmental Management from the University of Toronto.
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