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Explains water hydraulics in the context of treatment plants, presenting hydraulic theory and calculations in terms of the machinery and unit operations familiar to operators. This book covers hydraulics as related to keeping water moving from one unit process to the next, including maintaining proper settling times and settling velocity.

Presents information on pump fundamentals and applications, and introduces preventive maintenance and troubleshooting for hydraulic pumps. This work explains both centrifugal and positive-displacement pumps. It also covers common problem areas and corrective actions, such as how to maintain packing and mechanical seals.

Maintenance operators that can understand and properly use blueprints and schematics have little difficulty in correctly interpreting and using plant unit process drawings. This guide covers basic principles of blueprint reading and deals with principles and applications of schematics and symbols.