discharge valve of pumps

From: <VIJAYAN>
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 01:20:00 EDT

From: Vijayan Pulikkath
Location: Consultants, Chennai, India
Asst Design Engr

1. Which is the natural position for a discharge valve of a pump when the pump is started?

    valve open
    valve closed
2) Reason?

3) Is it normal to have an interlock for pump start/stop with the discharge valve when they are operating in parallel and on auto standby? Is it essential?

Vijayan

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Mon Oct 17 01:20:00 2005