Pump Questions And Answers

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1). What is Meant by pump?

• Pumping is a addition of energy to a fluid to move it from one point to another and not as it frequently throught the addition of pressure. Since energy is capacity to do work the addition of energy to a fluid causes it to do work such as such as flowing through a pipe or rising to a higher level.

2). What is a single stage pump?

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• It is one in which the total head is developed by the single impeller.

3). What is a multi-stage pump?

• If the total head is required to high for a single impeller to produce two or more impeller may be used in series the second impeller taking in suction from the discharge of the first impeller the all the impeller acting in series are in the single casing and the pump is a multi stage design

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4). What is the single suction impeller?

• It is one in which the liquid pumped enters the impeller from one side.

5). What is straight vane impeller?

• It is one in which the vane surfaces are generated by the straight lines parelel to the axis of rotation.vanes are design also called  single curvature vanes.

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