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The Hydraulic Institute (HI) recently published the one-of-a-kind guide on wastewater treatment plant pumps. Wastewater Treatment Plant Pumps is intended to assist in the understanding of the general layout, components, and operation of a typical wastewater treatment plant. The book also provides readers with the guidance necessary to select pump types, pump materials, and auxiliary components so the pumping system performs effectively, efficiently, and reliably in the various plant operations.

Hydraulic Institute (HI) has introduced ANSI/HI Standards on CD Version 3.2, its latest offering of ANSI/HI Standards presented in CD format. An extensive update of an previous CD offering, the new release is state-of-the-art and contains the full set of all thirty-five pump standards on one convenient-to-use and easily portable CD.

The Hydraulic Institute announced the release of two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) copies of which are now available through the HI website.

Bearings Plus, a provider of custom technology upgrades for engineered fluid film bearings and seals, and its parent company, Waukesha Bearings, a designer and manufacturer of fluid film bearings, announce new literature detailing their comprehensive rotordynamic analysis capabilities for OEMs and end users that are seeking to improve the reliability, efficiency and service life of their rotating equipment.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) has announced the release of four updated publications: Rotodynamic Centrifugal Pumps for Nomenclature and Definitions, Rotodynamic Vertical Pumps of Radial, Mixed, and Axial Flow Types for Nomenclature and Definitions, Rotodynamic Centrifugal Pumps for Manuals Describing Installation, Operation, and Maintenance and Rotodynamic Vertical Pumps for Manuals Describing Installation, Operation, and maintenance.

The Hydraulic Institute has announced the release of the new Rotodynamic Pumps – Guideline for Dynamics of Pumping Machinery (ANSI/HI 9.6.8–2014).

Armstrong Fluid Technology, a leader and innovator in design, engineering and manufacturing of integrated solutions within the building oriented fluid-flow equipment industry, has announced a new Hydronic Solutions Catalog to help fluid flow professionals find and select hydronics solutions.

McGraw Hill Education has published a follow-on graduate level textbook to its highly successful Geothermal HVAC: Green Heating and Cooling undergraduate textbook, published in 2011.

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) recently published the one-of-a-kind guide exclusively for the application and operation of pumps in combined-cycle power plant service.

Blackmer announces that it has recently released an updated version of Bulletin 501-001. Available in multiple languages – English, French, Russian, Spanish and Mandarin – this updated document has been designed to provide customers with in-depth product information regarding Blackmer positive displacement pumps and oil-free reciprocating compressors for liquefied gas applications.