Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
(OP)
Hello,
My client has a Sulzer HPT Multistage Barrel Casing
Boiler Feed Pump that he wants to use to pump screened agricultural ditch water with (2km @ 9 m head). I have no experience with these industrial pumps, but at first glance it seems like overkill and a potential maintenece nightmare. Any advice would be welcome!
TIA
My client has a Sulzer HPT Multistage Barrel Casing
Boiler Feed Pump that he wants to use to pump screened agricultural ditch water with (2km @ 9 m head). I have no experience with these industrial pumps, but at first glance it seems like overkill and a potential maintenece nightmare. Any advice would be welcome!
TIA





RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
The cost of the additional power will most likely more than pay for a new pump.
The existing pump could be brought into closer line with the required pressure by destaging it; but again, I would expect the cost of tear down, modifications, and reassembly would go a long way toward paying for a new low pressure pump.
Will need more definition of the required conditions to get more detailed.
RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
Also, pumps designed for pumping 'dirty' fluids normally have a higher pedigree metallurgy. Check this one with respect to the ability of the pump materials to withstand wear and abrasion.
rmw
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RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
I have yet to begin to wrap my mind around pumping ditch water with a pump designed to pump highly treated deaerated water.
Lump me in with the "bad idea" chorus.
RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
Even the smallest pump here is going to make a mighty fine fountain!! (over 4000 feet of head.)
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RE: Boiler feed pump for ag water?!
You want to take one of the most expensive, highest quality, higest head feedwater pumps made in the world and use it to move agricultural water with 9m head ?
Is your client also in the habit of taking engines from 747s and fitting them into golf carts ?
-MJC