subject: Pumping System Installation: First-hand Idea For Aspiring Pump Designers [print this page] Computer technology has impacted pumps designing activities in a significant way. It is up to ones imagination and innovative capability to implement newer themes into a project that would make it more useful. If mine pumps project are related with commercial uses (like oil extraction, waste water sewage in an industrial site), such extra effort would give it competitive advantage in the process as well. If projects are related with serving consumers directly, like water supply system for households, this would result in improved services and more consumer satisfaction. Such endeavors would also help one come out with more efficient yet low cost pumps designing.
Pump designers today should go an extra mile to ensure that end users are least affected with any malfunctioning of pumps. For instance, building redundancy into a submersible pumping system is one way through which one can ensure that there is little or no loss of allocated job expected from submersible pumps even if there are hiccups within the system. There are variety of ways, some indeed complicated, to build redundancy into a submersible pumping system. As an example, three submersible pumps can be installed into a system where two would perform the job at any point of time. If anything goes wrong with any of the two submersible pumps, third one would become operational: ensuring there is no loss of output from the system. In an extremely unlikely case where there is problem with two submersible pumps simultaneously, third one is still there taking care of half of the supply.
There is no doubt that by making use of currently available knowledge base, quick gains can be made in improving delivery mechanism of a pumping project as well. For instance, Wolfram is a computer software company that has built rich interactive applications related with mathematics, physics, chemistry as well as other sciences over the past decade or so. While many of the applications are absolutely free that can be downloaded from Wolfram-owned websites, users pay a small amount for availing the rest. It is for this reason that it is even more important today that pumping project professionals work closely in a team. There should be frequent discussion among mechanical engineers, software designers and others in the team.
For improving efficiency, it is pertinent that a mine pumps designer takes into account vivid statistical data related with the project. For instance, correlation analysis of pressure traverses in vertical and horizontal pipes should be carried out. It is easier to do such statistical studies making use of appropriate computer software programs. It is practical today to follow what W.E. Gilbert, considered as father of modern mechanical engineering, suggested in the 1950s but could not be implemented because of computational constraints. Also, the project would benefit with rich library of schematic illustrations of pumps under different scenarios.
