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Introduction
The pump currently used at the cooling water collection pit in front of the transformer
room is under-capacity and is not able to cope with the large volume of cooling water return.
Thus, especially during startup the cooling water overflows from the collection pit and is
wasted. The wasted cooling water flows to the waste water treatment plant before it flows out
to the main drain.
Description
In order to design a new pump with sufficient capacity to cope with the flow of
cooling water return, we would need to calculate the flowrate of cooling water required,
pressure loss along the straight pipe, fittings and the static head. By using a flowmeter, we
collected two day’s worth of flowrate data. The data is summarised in the tablet below:
Average 51.775
Using the flowrate data collected, we can deduce the pressure loss in terms of total
head using the equivalent pipe length method.
= 185234.016 pa
= 18.9 m
Equivalent length = 11 ft x 23
= 253 ft
= 7.82 m
Equivalent length = 79 ft x 3
= 237 ft
= 7.32 m
= 40.11 m x 1.2
In theory the power required for the pump to generate flowrate of 51.755 m3/hr is 12kW
Recommendation
It is recommended that the flowrate of cooling water be increased from the current
flow of 51.775 m3/hr to about 55 m3./hr to cope with the volume of cooling water returned to
the collection pit. Using the new cooling water flowrate, we made another calculation as
follows:
= 12.69 kW
Thus, theoretically the pump requires 12.69 kW of power in order to produce the
required flowrate necessary to prevent cooling water overflow from the collection pit. The
next step is to provide the data and specification for the pump supplier to quote the price of
the new pump.
Summary
In conclusion, the pump power required to produce sufficient flowrate of 55 m3/hr so
as to avoid overflow from the collection pit is found to be 12.69kW. This data is required for
the supplier to quote the price of the pump that would be used to replace the current pump
which is under-capacity.
In the long term, this would save the company money as less cooling water is wasted and
more would be return back to the cooling tower where it is recycled for further use as cooling
water utility.
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