Seawater Intake Pumps
Seawater Intake Pumps
(OP)
Does anybody knows why the designer of this intake, decided to have a above-ground discharge for seawater pumps, first, and then let them going U/G after some meters?
Let it asked in another way. If the outlet run U/G from the begining, then we have shorter pump, and therefore less material for it (cheaper pumps).
FYI i download the picture by googling.
Let it asked in another way. If the outlet run U/G from the begining, then we have shorter pump, and therefore less material for it (cheaper pumps).
FYI i download the picture by googling.





RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
Patricia Lougheed
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RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
If the discharge was ug, the meters would be ug, and would be at risk of flooding; also, the floor would have to have openings for access to the meters.
RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
if take a look to the picture again it seems the piping is not CS. it resembles more to the HDPE (or GRP), which is weak in shear comparing to the CS. in this regard i think settlement of concrete intake is main reason to have A/G discharge to avoide direct shear in piping, and change it to tension and comopression at some meters away.
Am i right?
RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
Since this is a picture you Googled, how do you know the pumps are stainless steel?
When I first saw the picture, I thought it was a construction drawing for a plant I've been to in the US -- which really surprised me that the plant I'm thinking about would have construction drawings on the web.
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RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
Not to say that if that was an important thing a pump couldn't be designed to be submerged in dirt, after some are designed to be submerged underwater.
But these pumps obviously weren't.
rmw
RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
You don't have to agree with me if you don't want to. There is no cost savings with UG discharge pumps.
RE: Seawater Intake Pumps
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/16091735
which is uploaded (as the link said) by Yeong Wei Kheen and related to Dung Quat Refinery : Unit 34, perhaps your plant moved to vietnam overnight?!
All of the pumps that i've seen and transfer seawater was made mainly from SS (i mean the parts in touch with seawater), what other material do you reckoning?
To rmw:
Please see my thread:
http://www
To better understand what i mean.