Jabsco pumps are very high-quality pumps and can function efficiently when you choose the right pump for your application and maintain it. Utilizing professional operators, properly sizing systems and performing routine pump maintenance can prevent challenges with your pump. The best systems are designed when pump engineers focus on efficiency. It is important to keep parasitic losses to a minimum if you want to maintain an edge over your competitors, meet certain sustainability goals and increase environmental regulations. In pumping systems, efficiency must be enhanced. Here are some tips to help you improve the efficiency of your pump.

Do an energy audit

When it comes to pump maintenance and replacing worn out parts on your pump, it is important to consider the use of alternate and new technologies. Although most of them require high initial capital, the life cycle cost may be more beneficial to the cost centre. A lot of air-operated pumps are currently being replaced with energy-efficient electromechanical membrane-type pumps or electric diaphragms. These new pumps are great energy savers and are also controllable. They also provide a regulated flow that is not possible with air-type pumps.

It is important to remember greater energy efficiency, less maintenance, less downtime and lower operating costs all get to the balance sheet.

Monitor pump performance using gauges

Gauges can be used both on the discharge side of the pump and the suction side. These serve as the best warming of wear and tear or poor performance caused by system anomalies or blockage. Low discharge pressure can signify wear on internal components of the pump, leading to reduced efficiency. Consult with your Jabsco pumps suppliers in New Zealand for tips on how to monitor and trigger maintenance or/and other remedial actions when it comes to reading trends beyond the control limits.

Know the materials of construction and the limits

Wear of the internal components such as check balls, valve seats, gears, impellers, and pistons should be reduced by choosing the correct materials. When these components wear, the efficiency of the pump is lost, as is the case with some types of pumps, their operating point on the curve changes and doesn’t match the optimal system curve.

Size the pump properly for the application

When dealing with a unique and new application, it is often hard to resist overdesign. You don’t want to be the supplier that underperforms in a system. The tendency of overdesigning – larger than necessary discharge pipe or a little extra horsepower -can create inefficiency and waste. Look into the modelling software of the pump to help them determine the required discharge pressure and flow rate.

Design the suction piping properly

Feed lines should be connected properly in a way that prevents force and pressure from being applied to the Jabsco pumps. You should use hangers, supports or other means of carrying the weight of the pump. You need to use connections that may accommodate the forces such as expansion forces created by misalignment. You should use strainers to catch larger particulate matter. You need to avoid airlocks in the suction line created by changes in elevation.