How to Determine Control Head for a Variable Speed Pumping System

How to Determine Control Head for a Variable Speed Pumping System

To control a variable speed pumping system, we must determine the minimum operational head of the system. Some refer to this value as constant head, minimum head, independent head, etc. Throughout this and in other JMP blogs, we refer to it as ...

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Parallel Pumping in Condenser Applications: Part 2 of 5

Parallel Pumping in Condenser Applications: Part 2 of 5

In Part 1 of this series we offered an example of a condenser water pumping system with 800 GPM per condenser for a total of 1600 GPM with the third condenser serving as standby. The tower elevation or lift is 10 feet, the condenser (with the 2-way valve and balance valve) has 20 feet of pressure drop, and the common piping with any safety factor has 30 feet of pressure drop. But there was a problem....

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