Concepts NREC Launches PUMP: 2010

By DE Editors

Concepts NREC has announced PUMP: 2010, a new, year-long initiative for the industrial pump design market.  Through PUMP: 2010, Concepts NREC offers entry-level and advanced software and seminars for pump design requirements, including finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Ongoing seminars focusing on critical design problems for the industry also are offered. 

In support of PUMP: 2010, Dave Japikse, Ph.D., chairman of the board/CEO of Concepts NREC and the 2008 SAE Cliff Garrett Turbomachinery and Applications Engineering Award recipient, will conduct a series of seminars, starting Oct. 12, at locations across the United States.

The initiative comes in response to a noted increase in demand for pumps in the 21st Century.  According to The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industry market research firm, “Global demand for fluid handling pumps is forecast to increase at a 4.4 percent annual rate to $47 billion in 2012.”

Concept NREC’s product offerings combine standard industrial pump design methodologies for problems including radial, mixed flow, and axial impellers with symmetric volute design features or diffusers or return channels/crossover vanes (bowl pumps), all within the AxCent module from its Agile Engineering Design System 2009 software.  In this suite, PUMPAL is used to develop the preliminary meanline geometry and AxCent enables rapid flow analysis of pumps through streamline curvature or high level CFD and FEA evaluations.

Concepts NREC is sponsoring four one-day free seminars to advise pump design engineers in matters of component and stage design for aggressive performance goals.

• Oct. 12, Schaumburg, IL
• Oct. 14, Irvine, CA
• Oct. 16, Houston, TX
• Oct. 21, Woburn, MA

Additionally, a set of design workshops has been scheduled for 2009/2010.

For more information, visit Concepts NREC.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.