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| John Merrill, manager of application engineering at EagleBurgmann U.S. (www.eagleburgmann.us), was elected chairman of the Hydraulic Institute''s Seals Committee. |
The Seals Committee has 17 active individual members. Last year this committee authored Mechanical Seals for Pumps: Application Guidelines, a 300-page comprehensive and authoritative reference book that provides pump and seal professionals, end-users and consulting engineers with useful and current pump mechanical seal knowledge.
The committee also just finished a detailed seal and packing recommendation matrix for the Condensing Combined Cycle Power Plant Pump Guideline, which should be published by the end of 2009. John is also a member of the MTBR (Mean Time Between Repair) Committee and the Vibration Committee. John holds BSME and JD degrees from the University of Tulsa (www.utulsa.edu) and a MSME degree from Western Michigan (www.wmich.edu).
