Multi Pump Fluid Transport Process Piping Unit Operations Training Pilot Plant

Introduction

The Fluid Transport and Process Piping Multi-Pump Practical Training Unit Operations Pilot Plant is an integrated, industrial-scale laboratory system designed for higher education engineering departments. This pilot plant bridges academic theory and industrial practice by allowing students to operate, control, and calibrate a comprehensive range of process pumps, piping systems, and flow measurement instruments. Built on a robust two-tier steel operating platform, the system offers dual-mode operation—combining physical fluid transport with semi-physical digital simulation—to provide a safe, versatile, and highly interactive learning environment for future process engineers.

Tailored Solutions for Academic Laboratories

To ensure seamless integration into diverse engineering curricula and laboratory spaces, this pilot plant features a highly adaptable design. Both the physical hardware components and the digital control software can be customized to align with specific academic requirements, facility dimensions, and safety standards. This flexibility allows institutions to acquire a system tailored precisely to their instructional goals.

Key Teaching Functions and Advantages

• Comprehensive Pump Operations: Facilitates the direct startup, shutdown, and control of centrifugal pumps, vortex pumps, gear pumps, vacuum pumps, metering pumps, and air compressors.
• Advanced Fluid Dynamics Demonstrations: Enables students to study centrifugal pump series and parallel configurations, observe air binding phenomena through controlled suction-line air leakage, and compare gravity-driven, pressurized, vacuum-assisted, and pump-driven fluid transport.
• Piping Friction and Fitting Loss Evaluation: Features dedicated test lines to measure pressure drops across straight pipes, elbows, reducers, globe valves, gate valves, and ball valves, reinforcing fluid mechanics theory.
• Flow Measurement and Calibration: Provides hands-on experience with diverse industrial flowmeters, including glass rotameters, orifice plate flowmeters, metal tube rotameters, and turbine flowmeters, alongside calibration protocols for flowmeters and metering pumps.
• Dual-Mode Operating System:
  • Real-Material Operating Mode: Utilizes the industrial SCADA/computer control system to acquire real-time data from physical sensors and control active components like pumps and heaters.
  • Semi-Physical Simulation Mode: Allows students to operate the system dry (without process media). The software reads physical valve positions and runs built-in process models to drive temperature, pressure, flow, and level indicators, offering a risk-free training environment.
• Industrial-Grade Safety and Accessibility: Built on a heavy-duty, two-tier steel frame with a 1.2-meter yellow safety guardrail, anti-slip checkered floor plates, and an integrated safety ladder for convenient inspection and maintenance.

Technical Specifications

Curriculum Integration and Textbook Alignment

This pilot plant is engineered to support professional laboratory courses across several engineering disciplines, including Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Food Engineering, Pharmaceutical Engineering, and Applied Chemistry.

By executing hands-on experiments on this unit, students gain practical insight into the core principles detailed in standard engineering textbooks. The equipment directly correlates with topics such as fluid statics, frictional resistance in conduits, pump head and power calculations, flow measurement, and automated process control.

The table below maps the specific experimental capabilities of the pilot plant to the relevant theoretical concepts found in standard academic curricula.

Textbook Correlation Mapping

Hardware and Software Customization

To accommodate varying laboratory layouts, local electrical requirements, and specific syllabus objectives, the pilot plant supports comprehensive customization. Physical parameters—including structural dimensions, piping configurations, and pump capacities—can be adjusted during the design phase. Similarly, the control software interface and simulated process models can be modified to match your institution's specific teaching methodology and instructional focus.

About LABPARK

LABPARK has been dedicated to serving the global higher education sector for over 20 years, specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced educational equipment. We focus on delivering high-quality training systems across six primary academic fields: Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biology, Food Science, Pharmaceuticals, and Environmental Engineering.

Supported by a state-of-the-art 49,000-square-meter production and R&D base, LABPARK maintains a strong commitment to technological innovation, currently holding 209 technical patents. To date, we have partnered with more than 289 universities and colleges worldwide, helping institutions build safer, more effective, and industry-aligned laboratory environments for the next generation of engineers.

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