Working Guide to Pumps and Pumping Station Calculations and Simulations : pump performance, liquid properties versus pump performance, pressure loss through piping systems, system head curves, pump performance at different impeller sizes and speeds, npsh and pump cavitation, pump applications and economics, pump simulation using pumpcalc software, vapor pressure, pressure and head of a liquid, energy of a flowing liquid and bernoulli’s equation, pump head and capacity, starting pump against a closed discharge valve, pipe diameters and designations, velocity of flow, pressure drop due to friction, determining the friction factor from the moody diagram.