Peanut butter, chocolate, ketchup, toothpaste, and paint. Do we have your attention? These might sound funny sitting in a Water hammer Wednesday blog. A toothpaste surge event sounds as messy as you can imagine. However, water hammer in nuclear waste processing, ore...
On April 16, 2016, a slurry pump in a Jamaican alumina refinery catastrophically failed severely injuring a nearby technician. The fluid being pumped was a hot, caustic fluid. A large portion of the pump casing was blown off and a technician suffered serious and...
More often than not, major water hammer problems are caused by a system component, like a sudden valve closure. However, due to the high wave speeds, water hammer surge waves will travel through the system at very high speeds which means that surge issues will...