
Pumps 
459 
Table 
3-24 
Drilling Equipment Service Factor 
[16] 
1  2 
3 
Typical 
Service 
Factor 
Compound Drives 
For Hoisting Service 
For Pump Driving Service 
Pump 
Final 
Drive 
Pump 
Countershaft 
Drive' 
Drawworks 
Input 
Drive 
Type 
A* 
Drawworks 
Input 
Drive 
Type 
B2 
Drawworks Transmission Drives3 
Drawworks Low Drum Drive 
Drawworks High 
Drum 
Drive 
Rotary Countershaft Drive4 
Rotary 
Final 
Drive4 
Auxiliarv 
Brake 
Drive5 
12 
- 
16 
16 
- 
21 
20 
- 
25 
20 
- 
25 
9 
- 
12 
5- 
7 
2- 
3 
3.5 
- 
5 
5 
- 
10 
5 
- 
10 
- 
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- 
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'Pump countershaft drives are frequently very short centered which reduces the heat 
liberating surface and for high horsepower they may require supplementaty cooling. 
2Drawworks input drives are of two types. The type A drive is located between the prime 
movers and drawworks transmission. The type 
B 
drive is located between the transmis- 
sion and drawworks. It is 
to 
be noted that drawworks input drives have smaller service 
factors than compound drives, based on experience. Among the reasons for this are the 
fewer horsepower hours logged in a given period and the fact that they are somewhat 
removed from the influence of engine impulses. 
3Servi~e factors on drawworks transmission drives have been ommitted from the 
Recommended Practices for 
two 
basic reasons. First, the Recommended Practices are 
basically intended for field design guides and it is not expected that such designs will be 
made in the field. Second, transmission designs cover a wide range of conditions such as 
shaft speeds, number of ratios, and methods of obtaining ratios, 
so 
that no one family 
of 
service factors could be made to apply. 
4R~tary countershaft and final drives have benefited only slightly from experience as too 
little has been known about rotary horsepowers through the years. 
5Auxiliary brake chain drives have been omitted because of the indefinite nature of the 
load. Each manufacturer has established successful drives, but these are suited to 
specific conditions which cannot be reduced to simple terms. Most such drives violate the 
rules of chain speeds and loads and are successful only because of the short duration of 
use 
and deviation from calculated loads. It is recommended that the drawworks 
manufacturer be consulted. 
elements and the quantity of liquid pumped. Thus, in positive displacement pumps 
liquid displacement 
(or 
discharge from the device) is theoretically equal to the swept 
volume of the pumping element. Figure 
3-48 
shows the typical positive displacement 
plot 
of 
discharge rate 
Q 
(fP/s) versus pressure P (lbs/ft2) 
[HI. 
The discharge rate 
remains the same (assuming a constant rate of rotation for the system) regardless 
of 
the pressure in the flow. The pressure in the 
flow 
is, 
of 
course, the result of resistance 
in the flow system the pump discharges to. If the resistance increases, rotation can be 
maintained and more force applied 
to 
each stroke 
of 
the pump (i.e., power). This 
is 
why the reciprocating piston plunger pump is also called a power pump. In practice,