Fire Pump Equipment

Fire pumps are a type of pump used in fire fighting. Compared to ordinary pumps, fire pumps have higher standards and requirements in terms of sealing, corrosion resistance and operational efficiency. Before running the fire pump equipment, we need to discharge the gas inside the pump, do you know what is the significance of doing so? The following is the answer from Shanghai Xizhiquan.

1. If there is gas inside the fire pump, then the equipment cannot form a sufficient vacuum during operation, resulting in the liquid not being able to be sucked up. This phenomenon is called gas binding, and is a phenomenon that often results from many operators not understanding this operation.
2, understand the formation of gas binding causes, we will understand how to avoid this problem occurs. Before the fire pump equipment is started, the pump casing needs to be filled with liquid. In the pump suction pipe mouth need to be equipped with a non-return valve, can effectively avoid the pump in the liquid due to gravity into the low tank, if the pump position is low, there is no need to carry out filling the pump.
3. The compressed gas inside the fire pump will occupy a certain space in the fire pump, making it impossible to seal it.

Therefore, the operation of deflating the fire pump before putting it into use can increase the vacuum of the equipment and increase the pumping capacity of the pump, thus effectively improving the efficiency of the equipment and reducing the waste of resources.

In the fire fighting pipeline pump, according to the different installation methods can be divided into vertical fire pumps and horizontal fire pumps, many people have questions about these two common pumps, what is the difference between the two? Shanghai Xizhiquan will explain the difference between horizontal and vertical pumps.

Obviously, different installation methods take up different space. Vertical pipeline pumps are installed vertically, covering a relatively small area, and vertical fire pumps do not require a foundation, while horizontal fire pumps need to be equipped with a base.

According to the different structures of the two pumps, it can be concluded that there is also a certain difference in the ease of maintenance of the two types of fire fighting pipeline pumps. The impeller of the vertical fire pump needs to be dismantled from top to bottom, which makes maintenance more difficult; the horizontal fire pump only needs to have the inlet pipe removed so that the impeller can be overhauled, which is relatively simple.

Due to the different inlet and outlet pipe directions, the pipeline connection between vertical and horizontal is also different. As the vertical pump is a bottom-up structure, while the horizontal fire pump is longitudinally arranged on the base, so the motor of the vertical pump and the pump body are connected in the form of sub-mouth connection, while the horizontal pump needs to use couplings to connect with the motor, and the horizontal pipeline pump needs to be corrected regularly.

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