A Look at an Engineering Failure

In 2016, a waterhammer event occurred at an alumina refinery which caused a slurry pump to catastrophically fail. Like many engineering failures, this one was a result of several independent issues combining in time and space to cause a catastrophic failure. This webinar will review the event, root cause of the failure, and guidance on best practices engineers could incorporate in their surge mitigation plans to proactively prevent waterhammer incidents.

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00:00 Introduction
09:38 screen sharing
11:20 process and blow off
15:35 what happened
25:15 model analysis
29:55 contributing factors
33:45 conclusion