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Practical pump guides from Channel Pumps — how to select, size, install and troubleshoot industrial pumps for your duty.

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How to select a pump

Pump selection in the order the questions get asked: flow, pipework, viscosity, seal, motor. Plus why oversizing and cavitation are one chain, not two faults.

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Sizing a booster set

Booster set sizing in four steps: peak simultaneous flow, head at the index outlet, pump count and control mode, plus why margin stacking oversizes most sets.

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How a borehole pump works

A borehole pump is a multistage submersible cooled by the water it moves. How the stages make head, and how to size against the pumping water level.

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How a booster set works

A cold water booster set holds a building at a set pressure using several pumps under one controller. How the tank, pumps, controller and vessel each work.

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How a rotary lobe pump works

Two lobed rotors counter-rotate and never touch. How a rotary lobe pump works, when to move off a centrifugal, and what kills one in service.

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How long a submersible stays under

A submersible rated S1 continuous has no time limit underwater. What limits it is cooling, starts per hour, depth, seal condition and the medium.

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Maintaining a progressive cavity pump

Dry running burns through the stator and takes the rotor with it. What keeps a progressive cavity pump alive: suction, speed, elastomer and seal.

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Preventing cavitation

Cavitation is a suction-conditions fault. Fix the suction side first, then the duty point, then the pump, and learn to tell it apart from air entrainment.

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Reading a pump curve

How to read the head–flow, efficiency, power and NPSHr lines on a pump performance curve, place your duty point, and stay off the end of the curve.

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Hygienic pump standards

What EHEDG certification, 3-A Sanitary Standards, food-contact law and Ra surface finish each cover on a hygienic pump, and what they leave to you.

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If a submersible pump runs dry

A submersible pump run dry usually loses its mechanical seal. What fails, how it differs by pump type, and why the cause sits on the suction side.

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