Sea Water Suction Pipe

From: <Ahmed>
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 08:07:00 EDT

Dear Forum Members

My sea water pumps are cavitating!
Flow rate 2750 m3/hr each.
Delivery pressure 1.8 barg
Suction pipe 500 mm.
Pump inlet nozzle 400 mm.

There is a lot of turbulence in the suction pit of each pump. The 500 mm suction consists of a long radius bend.
Is there some thing I can modify in the suction to reduce the turbulence?

Ahmed Vawda
Process Engineer
Al Khaleej Sugar - Dubai

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Tue Sep 17 08:07:00 2002

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