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Pulsation Damper Location

Pulsation Damper Location

Pulsation Damper Location

(OP)
Hi all,

I read on most of the installation manual of a pulsation damper that it is recommended to install it as close to the displacement pump as possible.

I wonder what will the impact if I install near a sensitive system where the flow need to be non turbulence? Will that help to damper the incoming flow and pressure?

Best regards
Rickco

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

Anything that will dampen the speed of flow will decrease turbulence. With a PD pump, you are producing pulses. The pulses are moving at a higher velocity than a system with continuous flow.

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

Pulses move at the speed of sound; and they are coming from the pump itself.

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

(OP)
Hi Bimr, Dubmac,

I do understand.
I am thinking if my supply flow is non turluence, by adding a PD near my equipement, will that help to regulate the flow and pressure.

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

It will help with short term fluctuations in pressure but will have no impact on longer term/sustained disturbances. There will be a corresponding smoothing in flow which will be a function of the reduction in pressure movement and the shape of the downstream system curve.

By short term I mean changes that are <1 second.

As a chem eng/metallurgist the first part of any answer I give starts with "It Depends"

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

(OP)
Hi Itdepends,

So you mean that if in once every 20 second, the pump pump, it will be able to smoothen the flow, but if the pump keep pumping, it may not be able to help to smoothen the flow?

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

A PD pump has a pumping output similar to this curve from a peristaltic pump. The flow is not continuous, rather it is a continuous series of plug flow. The velocity and turbulence change with every pulse



The pulsation dampener will help to smooth out the flow.

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

(OP)
Hi Bimr,

My question is if I do not fix the pulsation dampener near my pump, but I fix it near my sensative equipment (example 25m away from pump), what is the impact?

Best regards
Rickco

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

My read is to dampen the pulsations as close to the source as possible. Remember, steel is highly elastic. Thus pulsations in the fluid will cause flexing of the pipe; not a good operating condition for anything [except deicing, maybe]. And that "speed of sound" mentioned is the speed in the fluid. In water, it is just under 5000 fps.

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RE: Pulsation Damper Location

Pulsation dampers are normally applied immediately downstream of a reciprocating, positive displacement pumps. In situations where you are seeking to obtain more uniform flow, you might consider adding an additional dampener elsewhere in the piping manifold (depending on the arrangement of the piping).

http://www.modernpumpingtoday.com/integrity-of-pul...

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

Placing the dampener near the pump lessens the effects caused by inertia of the fluid in the pipes, thus reducing stresses and vibrations on the pump and pipes.And it will save energy. Placing a dampener near the end user will be most effective at maintaining a constant pressure at the user. Near the pump is the usual choice, but you can use both.

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

(OP)
Thanks guys!
You have provided lots of information.
Greatly Appreciate it.

Best regards
Rickco

RE: Pulsation Damper Location

Geho pumps I have installed usually have a suction bottle to eliminate pulsations on the upstream side of the triplex diaphragm pump as well as downstream accumulators.

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RE: Pulsation Damper Location

(OP)
Thank all.
I had actually make use of a pressure reducing valve to regulate my incoming pressure.
Seems to work out as fine.

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