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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2002
Applicants:
Eugene P. Sabini, Skaneateles, NY (US);
Jerome A. Lorenc, Seneca Falls, NY (US);
Inventors:
Eugene P. Sabini, Skaneateles, NY (US);
Jerome A. Lorenc, Seneca Falls, NY (US);
Assignee:
ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01B 25/26 (2006.01); F04D 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for determining whether a centrifugal pump assembly is degraded as operating outside of acceptable operating limits and includes a processor adapted by software to perform the steps of automatically characterizing the pump characteristics at a predetermined operating level and testing for degradation using the automatically acquired pump characteristics.