Pump Theory

If your pump has started sounding like it is pumping gravel instead of water, you are not imagining it. That grinding, rattling noise is often the first audible sign of pump cavitation, one of the most common causes of premature pump failure in industrial and...

Hand a facilities manager a manufacturer's pump datasheet and the single most useful page in it, by far, is the pump curve. It tells you whether a given pump can actually do the job you need, how efficiently it will do it, what it will cost to run, and whether it is...