Small Drawing of Header Supply and Return
Small Drawing of Header Supply and Return

Parallel Pumping with Unequal Condensers (Part 4)

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Over the last few weeks our Monday Morning Minutes posts have looked at pumping issues with parallel, equal-sized condensers and pumps. This week we will look …

Metraflex LPD Y strainer
Metraflex LPD Y strainer

Parallel Pumping in Condenser Applications: Automatic Differential Pressure Control (Part 3)

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Chilled water condensers are normally operated as constant-flow devices and the pumps serving them are constant-speed. Why would you ever use a variable-speed drive for …

Griswold Wafer
Griswold Wafer

Parallel Pumps in Condenser Applications: Limiting the Flow Rate (Part 2)

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In part 1 of this series we offered an example condenser water pumping system. The design of this example is 800 GPM per condenser for …