Centrifugal Pumps are significant energy consumers for many process industry. It is essential to operate pump at it best operating efficiency for minimum power consumption. With the advancement of technology large capacity centrifugal pumps are now available with above 90% efficiency. While auditing large no of pumps it is found that only few pumps are …
Area of Improvement: 500TR Chilled water system was having primary and secondary circuits for circulation of chilled water through Chiller and plant. Observation: In a typical chilled water/ brine system, Primary circuits are used circulate water/ brine though chiller and reduce temperature of chilled water / brin., further this chilled water is transferred to the …
Case Study: Pumping power reduction at chilled water System Read More »
Considering typical 5 year lifecycle of 100KW and above pumps,spent on power contributes to more than 90% of total ownership cost. Thereforeit is important to consider operating efficiency of pump. Pump efficiency is always a major consideration while pump procurement, but because of no of reasons in many cases pump efficiency drops while operation. Reason …
