Hydro’s Glen Powell joined Empowering Industry’s Charli Matthews Carruth about his career at Hydro, spanning reliability engineering, pump testing, condition monitoring and global engineering.
Throughout the conversation, Glen discusses how wireless condition monitoring is changing equipment reliability, how Hydro’s test lab is being used to evaluate smart pump technologies and energy efficiency, and why transferring industry knowledge to the next generation is so important. He also shares advice for engineers entering the industry, including the value of curiosity, ambition, relationships and integrity.
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In-depth field testing paired with computational analysis provides a clear path to both an accurate diagnosis and a solution that has a high likelihood of success. The effectiveness of this methodology was proven for a Gulf Coast midstream company who was experiencing high vibration with their vertical freshwater pumps. By applying advanced field diagnostics, the end user was able to understand the underlying causes of the vibration and evaluate possible solutions in a theoretical environment prior to implementing them in the field.