The easy-care alternative to submersible pump stations

✍ Scribed by John Mowen; Marvin Wood; Darby Ritter

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 462 KB
• Volume: 1998
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(99)80321-6

✦ Synopsis

World Pumps compared the performance efficienctes of the above-grade wet well mounted p u m p station OVWMPS) with submersible p u m p stations. The following article now takes a look at the construction, design, installation, operation and maintenance advantages offered by this technology as compared to the submerstble p u m p station approach.

Smith & Loveless has designed its above-grade WWMPS as an alternative to traditional 4 inch (100 mm),6 inch ( 150mm) and 8 inch (200 mm) submersible wastewater pumps.The most notable difference b e t w e e n the above-grade p u m p station design and a submersible p u m p station is the location of the equipment. Unlike a submersible by John Mowen, Marvin Wood, and Darby Ritter of Smith & Loveless p u m p station, the WWMPS design features p u m p s , motors, valves and controls enclosed together in a single housing, above-grade and separated from the wet well. WWMPSs are designed as c o m p l e t e twopump, three-pump and series p u m p stations with built-in, fail-safe c o m p o n e n t s and flow capacities ranging from 50 gal/min (3 l/s) to 2500 gal/min (160 l/s).

C o n t r o l l e d c o n s t r u c t i o n e n v i r o n m e n t

The WWMPS is entirely factory-built and tested under its design conditions prior to s h i p m e n t A n y

The wet well mounted pump station is assembled and tested prior to installation.