Recently, the 2018 annual research project review meeting of KSB Pump Industry Foundation was held in Stuttgart, Germany. Prof. Yuan Shouqi and his group team members Dr. Zhang Fan and Dr. Luo Yin were declared to approve the project of “Research on operation condition detection for centrifugal pumps”. The batch number is NO. 1.2018.07.1 and the project funding is up to 150,000 Euros.

KSB, founded in 1871, is a world-famous modern pump manufacturing company which is one of the world's three largest pump manufacturing companies. It is headquartered in Franktal, Germany and has a history of nearly 150 years. The company has 33 wholly-owned or joint venture production branches in 19 countries around the world, with world-leading product technology and a wide range of products. Each year, the KSB Foundation collects project applications based on the major technical problems faced by the company. After the joint review of the company’s board of directors and the foundation committee, the final approved candidates will be informed at the end of the year.

The cooperation of Prof. Yuan Shouqi’s team with KSB headquarters in Germany is a great breakthrough in the field of fluid machinery (pump) technology research of Jiangsu University, marking a steady improvement of research level and international influence of National Research Center of Pumps. It also lays a solid foundation for the internationalization of industry-university-research cooperation and scientific research results.