Raghu Kadava
Pump Technical Specialist
- Role
- Mechanical Engineer at Black & Veatch
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Raghu Kadava
Registered Professional Engineer (P.E) in the State of New Mexico.PSAP certified professional (Hydraulic Institute)Certified Vibration Analyst (Cat II) by Vibration Institute.Eighteen years of experience on projects involving pump station design, pipeline design, hydraulic analysis, and surge analysis on more than 300 pumping stations.Member of Hydraulic Institute Technical Standards (ANSI) Committee for design of pumping stations. Experienced in witness testing of pumps in factory and field, energy audit, condition assessment, physical models, pumps and pumping stations commissioning.Reviewed the designs of several pumping stations across the world, provided technical feedback on several hydraulic and transient analyses of hydroturbine penstocks. Specialties: Pumping Station Design, Hydraulics, Transient Analysis
Experience
Mechanical Engineer
May 2006 — Present · Kansas City, MO, US
P.E.P.S.A.P (Hydraulic Institute)18 years of experience as a mechanical engineer on projects involving pump station design, transient analysis, pipeline design, hydraulic analysis. Designed pump stations for sea water desalination: Intake, RO high pressure, High service, and other plant pumping systems for lps sea water desalination plant in Chile. Performed transient analysis of multiple transmission pipelines and distribution systems for raw water and in-plant piping and pumping systems.Designed several surge control systems, hydro-pneumatic tanks, bladder tanks and associated compressed air systems.Witness tested of pumps, energy recovery systems, physical models of pump stations.500 mgd river intake pump station360 mgd wastewater pump station700 mgd plant effluent pump station2500 cfs storm water pump station1200 cfs pumped-storage station
Education
Sri Vijay Junior College
Intermediate College, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
1996 — 1998
SRKV
High school, High School
1987 — 1996
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
1998 — 2002
Missouri University of Science and Technology
MS, Mechanical Engineering
2002 — 2004
Skills
- Wastewater Treatment
- Pumping Station Design
- Mechanical Engineering
- Engineering Design
- Piping
- Materials
- Calculations
- Instrumentation
- Pipit
- Water
- Autocad
- Pipelines
- Liqt
- Transient Analysis
- Project Engineering
- Engineering
- Thermal
- Pumps
- Hydraulics
- Heat Transfer
- Product Design
- Valves
- Water Treatment
- Asme
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