Capability Spotlight: Hydro University

Hydro University was developed with a mission of ensuring that pump users around the world have access to the knowledge required to optimize industrial operations and reduce pump lifecycle costs. By imparting technical skills, pump knowledge, and troubleshooting methodologies, we help our customers to achieve this.

Hydro has spent 50 years accumulating knowledge of pump operation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrades. Our aftermarket perspective uniquely empowers us to look at our pumps the way an end user would- with an eye for improving reliability and performance of existing assets instead of a focus on initial design. Our training is similarly focused on imparting skills critical to end users’ every day job functions instead of theoretical design that would rarely, if ever, be used by pump system owners.

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Hydro University understands that not every organization or learner will have the same goals and has developed a varied slate of delivery methods to support skill development.

For those looking to engage in course material on their own schedule, Hydro University offers a breadth of online technical webinars and e-learning classes. The topics are expansive, covering a depth of knowledge such as centrifugal pump fundamentals, system optimization, vibration, failure modes, and many more.

For organizations looking for an in-depth skill development strategy, Hydro University provides tailored programs that combined classroom, hands-on, and virtual course material customized to the end user’s learning goals. These programs can include a mentorship aspect, where Hydro’s subject matter experts join students in an application optimization project that provides practical application of the skills they learned in the classroom.

Interested in learning more about Hydro University? Download our current course catalog, visit the Hydro University LMS to browse online courses, or contact us for more information.

Taming the Bad Actors- In-Person Seminar (Houston, TX)

Presented by Bob Jennings, Taming the Bad Actors is a 1-day course designed to help you identify the root causes of failures and improve the performance of your pump and pumping systems.

Attendees to the one-day course will gain valuable new skills, including:
  • The principles of operation of centrifugal pumps
  • How the centrifugal pump interacts with the pumping system
  • How to identify system problems that occur when operating pumps off BEP, including cavitation, suction recirculation, discharge recirculation
  • How to identify root cause failures
  • How to identify and implement basic performance improvement opportunities, including the methods and means available for increasing pump reliability and efficiency

Please note that this course is in-person at our HydroTex Deer Park service center.

Basic Hydraulics Seminar- In-Person (Houston)

Join Hydro’s Bob Jennings for our one-day Basic Hydraulics seminar, held in-person at our HydroTex Deer Park facility in La Porte, TX.

Basic Hydraulics is a 1-day course on the hydraulic principles of operation for centrifugal pumps, with a focus on the correlation between centrifugal pump performance and the system head curve.

Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

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Basic Hydraulics Seminar- In-Person (Houston)

Join Hydro’s Bob Jennings for our one-day Basic Hydraulics seminar, held in-person at our HydroTex Deer Park facility in La Porte, TX.

Basic Hydraulics is a 1-day course on the hydraulic principles of operation for centrifugal pumps, with a focus on the correlation between centrifugal pump performance and the system head curve.

Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Register Now