How to Build a Centrifugal Pump Curve Part 2: Trimmed Impellers

How to Build a Centrifugal Pump Curve Part 2: Trimmed Impellers

In Part 1 of our Building a Pump Curve series, we discussed the parts of an unplotted pump curve. Now it's time to add some curves! In Figure 1, we've added a single head/capacity curve for a 9.5-inch diameter impeller--the largest impeller that can be used with our example pump, a Bell & Gossett e-1510 4BD. During laboratory tests...

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Domestic Water Pressure Booster Sizing Part 5: Selecting The Pressure Booster

Domestic Water Pressure Booster Sizing Part 5: Selecting The Pressure Booster

In our last blog, we determined that we required a 56 PSI pressure boost in our 100 Room Apartment example. Previous to that we determined (using the Hunters Curve) that we had a maximum total demand of 180 gpm. With these two values we are now prepared to select…

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