New Pump Efficiency Standards Part 3: Calculating PER Values

New Pump Efficiency Standards Part 3: Calculating PER Values

Under the DOE’s new efficiency standards for pumps, all Pump Efficiency Rating (PER) values use a full size or maximum impeller for a given pump and start at the pump’s best efficiency point (BEP). As you may recall from our last post, the new efficiency standard includes two versions of.....

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New Pump Efficiency Standards Part 2: The Pump Efficiency Metric (PEI)

New Pump Efficiency Standards Part 2: The Pump Efficiency Metric (PEI)

Now that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the first ever Energy Conservation Standards for Pumps, let’s take a look at some of the finer details of that standard, starting with the associated terminology and what it means...

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