ALEX YATES

Alex has worked in the field of roto-dynamic performance assessments for over 35 years and has worked in multiple industries, including water utilities, power generation, metal processing, automotive, aerospace/defence, oil and gas and petrochemical.

The objective of this work was to both assess the performance of the plant and to identify deliverable solutions to both significantly improve the reliability of the plant and to reduce the operating costs of the systems.

Alex has also worked on some of the largest pumps in operation, up to 72MW and overseen the testing of 15,000 pumps across the globe.

Over this time, he has assessed pumps, blowers and hydro turbines throughout the world. He now specialises in the assessment of the pump performance and the interaction of multiple unit operations both for series and parallel systems. Over recent years, Alex has started to specialise in optimising and designing integrated pumping systems for multi-system cooling tower networks.

Alex’s knowledge and his work in the field leave him ideally placed to deliver these courses, bringing in a practical understanding from reviewing and working on over 12,000 pump and system assessments.