Abstract:
A controller for a municipal water system having a pump connected to a suction line, featuring a signal processor and a memory module configured to: receive suction line pressure sensor signaling sensed by a suction line pressure sensor arranged on the suction line and containing information about a suction line pressure of water flowing in the suction line; receive low suction pressure limit signaling programmed in the memory module and containing information about a low suction pressure limit of the water flowing in the suction line; and provide control signaling containing information to control the operation of the pump depending on a relationship between the suction line pressure and the low suction pressure limit, based upon the suction line pressure sensor signaling and the low suction pressure limit signaling received. The control signaling may contain information to reduce or stop the water flowing in suction line if the suction line pressure falls below the low suction pressure limit.
Abstract:
A pump controller has a signal processor that receives signaling about an instant water level AIL of a liquid in a container and generated by a water level transducer during an empty/fill application; and determines corresponding signaling to control a pump during the empty/fill application based upon the signaling received using a liquid level control algorithm that turns ON the pump and turns OFF the pump; controls the pump based upon a respective desired adaptive pressure set point SP* being defined from a respective adaptive liquid level control curve with respect to the instant water level AIL.
Abstract:
A contoured check valve disc features a pivot portion and a check valve portion. The check valve portion is attached to the pivot portion. The check valve portion has a near-sloped portion formed nearest to the pivot portion and a contoured surface curving away from the pivot point to a first point of inflection with a first curvature. The check valve also has a far-sloped portion formed farthest from the pivot portion and a contoured surface curving away from the point of inflection towards a farthest point away from the pivot portion with a second curvature that is less curved or bent than the first curvature. The near-sloped portion and the far-sloped portion combining to form a surface having a contoured pressure/force distribution on the first side to respond to the fluid flow and move the check valve portion away from the fluid opening.
Abstract:
A submersible pump featuring: a motor; run/start capacitors; a housing having a motor housing portion and a run/start capacitor housing portion separated by a housing wall, the motor housing portion having a motor housing chamber to contain the motor in an oil bath, the run/start housing portion having a run/start housing chamber, connection ports to allow sealed connections between electrical components in the motor housing portion and the run/start capacitor housing portion; a removable motor housing cover to close the motor housing portion; a removable run/start capacitor housing cover to close the run/start capacitor housing portion; and a capacitive cup, removeably arranged in the run/start capacitor housing chamber, the run/start capacitors to be contained in the capacitive cup, the cup having connection ports to allow sealed connections between the run/start capacitor and the electrical components in the motor housing portion in order to couple the run/start capacitors to the motor.
Abstract:
A volute for a pump featuring a volute or casing having a pump inlet for receiving a fluid being pumped, a pump discharge for providing the fluid, and a volute or casing vane forming double volutes therein. The volute has an upper cutwater and also has a lower cutwater. The upper cutwater having a throat area dimensioned to be greater than and not equal to a lower cutwater throat area so the upper cutwater throat area and the lower cutwater throat area provide substantially equal flow velocity at both the upper cutwater and the lower cutwater in response to an angular sweep of the fluid being pumped. The end of passage for the upper cutwater is dimensioned with an upper cutwater passage area that is greater than and not equal to a corresponding lower cutwater passage area of the corresponding end of passage for the lower cutwater.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a numerical affinity pump sensorless conversion signal processing technique, e.g. based upon processing the pump differential pressure, flow rate and power at pump maximum speed published by pump manufacturers, as well as the pump affinity law in order to obtain instant pump differential pressures and flow rate directly and numerically. The sensorless converter technique may be applied to any form of pump characteristics distributions simple or complicated, since there is no need to reconstruct and to solve any pump and system characteristics equations. As a result, the computation accuracy is significantly improved.
Abstract:
A valve is provided having a valve housing/body configured to be arranged in, or form part of, a piping having a fluid flow, and configured with a pressure tap arranged at a location along the piping to allow pressure of the fluid flow of the piping to be measured, and also having a rotatable orifice plate configured to rotate in the valve body/housing on an axis of rotation positioned at a different location along the piping than the pressure tap for rotating between a first rotatable position for providing a normal fluid flow operation and a second rotatable position substantially perpendicular to the fluid flow for providing a direct flow measurement of the fluid flow determined based on signalling sensed by the pressure tap sensor containing information about a measured pressure at the pressure tap when the orifice plate is in the second rotatable position.
Abstract:
A suction diffuser or arrangement is provided featuring a main suction diffuser body and a flow conditioning arrangement. The main suction diffuser body is configured with an inlet to receive an incoming fluid flow, an interior cavity to receive the incoming fluid from the inlet, and an outlet to receive the incoming fluid from the interior cavity and provide an outgoing fluid. The flow conditioning arrangement is configured in relation to the inlet and also comprises a flow conditioning portion having at least one inwardly contoured surface, configured to extend into the interior cavity, diffuse the incoming fluid passing from the inlet into the interior cavity, and provide a flow conditioning that produces a uniform flow of the outgoing fluid by directing the incoming fluid towards the outlet, based at least partly on a contoured design corresponding to the at least one inwardly contoured surface.
Abstract:
A check valve assembly includes multiple components. for coupling together first and second pipes, and has multiple components, including a check valve, a check valve housing, a check valve body adapter and a locking ring. A mating surface coupling between a check valve body adapter inlet mating surface and a check valve housing outlet mating surface together with a flange coupling between a check valve body adapter inlet coupling flange and a locking ring inwardly extending and circumferentially extending flange combines to form a check valve assembly union U that allows the multiple components of the check valve assembly to freely orient and align when the check valve assembly is threaded and coupled to the first and second pipes.
Abstract:
A coalescing removal separator includes a separator tank having a separator input configured to receive a fluid flowing through a system having entrained gasses and solid particles, having a tank wall configured to form a volume/chamber inside the separator tank to process the fluid, and having a separator output configured to provide processed fluid that is free of at least some of the entrained gasses and solid particles; and a coalescing media arranged in the volume/chamber of the separator tank, the coalescing media having at least one helically wound brush with a stem and intertwined bristles substantially filling the volume/chamber of the separator tank and being configured to enable the at least some of the entrained gasses and solid particles to come out of the fluid.