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Hydraulic Pump

Vibration

All rotating machines, pumps included, vibrate to

some extent due to various reasons, the most
common of which are typically the following:
Improper installation at site
Improper balancing of pump rotor

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Excessively turbulent fluid flow

Pressure fluctuations
Cavitation or internal recirculation in pumps
Normal pump wear after prolonged operation.

Therefore, process and design engineers should

not be so much interested as to whether or not a
pump vibrates but concerned and instead ask
themselves the following questions:
Is the amplitude and frequency of the pump
vibration sufficient to cause damage to any of
the pump components.

Is the pump vibration a symptom of some

other more worrying phenomena occurring
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Pump vibration monitoring

instruments
Large sized centrifugal pumps are generally
recommended to be equipped with typically two
(2) vibration measurement instruments per
bearing, one at the x-axis and the second at the
y-axis. These instruments are typically
programmed with two threshold values: an alarm
point and a trip point. When the alarm point is
reached, operator is notified at the control room
in order to take measures to verify and limit the
vibration level. In case the trip point is reached,
the pump is tripped in order to avoid any further
sustained damage which could be catastrophic to
the pump and operating personnel.
Vibration monitoring instruments for pumps are
generally characterised as velocimetric type.
range typically in inches/sec or mm/sec.

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Accelerometric (in inches/sec2 or mm/sec2) or

distance-type (typically in microns) vibration
readings are usually taken at bearings and shafts
of more high-tech equipments like turbines.

Damage due to excessive

pump vibration
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There are basically three (3) international

standards setting limits on pump vibrations. Goal
of these standards is to help pump users avoid
excessive levels of vibration and catastrophic
failures caused by pump vibrations, which could
include severe damages to pump bearings, shaft
distortion etc.
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standard, assuming that a vibration intensity of

bearing lifetime, simply increasing the vibration
level to 0.2 inches/ sec could reduce bearing
lifetime to 60-70% of nominal bearing lifetime.

Standards for pump vibration

limits
- Hydraulic Institute (HI), namely with ANSI/HI
9.6.4 standard
- American Petroleum Institute (API), namely with
API 610 standard
- International Standards Organisation (ISO),
namely with ISO 10816 standard

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ANSI Standards

Figure - 1 Typical pumps vibration levels in

accordance with ANSI/HI and API standards

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Figure - 2 Typical pumps vibration levels in

accordance with ISO 10816 standards (Category A
is typically required for newly-manufactured
pumps

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