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    Temperature affects on pump performance

    Completely understood. So there is no performance loss, just a change in the conversion between meters of Head to Pressure. Thank you all for your help.
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    Temperature affects on pump performance

    4 PSI change in pressure over a 10 min test to me is not a minor change in head pressure.I adjusted the temperature after seeing irregular data values at different temperatures. I am currently running a 60 day test to evaluate wear on the pump at a specific solid water mixture. I am seeing...
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    Temperature affects on pump performance

    Based on? I am no expert but as far as i am aware pump performance is not affected by density. An increase in viscosity can reduce your output but not density.
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    Temperature affects on pump performance

    Guys, I am chasing a theory on a dead head pump test. I have a multi stage centrifugal pump that's manufactured deadhead pressure @60hz is 808 PSI (20 degrees Celcius). I am currently testing this pump in a closed loop which runs through a choke setup which is causing the liquid in the tank to...
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    Booster Pump discharge pressure not adding up

    LittleInch, Thankyou for your clarification. Sorry about the photo. I will see what I can do with the inlet pipe work then work from there. Thanks again. Lukas
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    Booster Pump discharge pressure not adding up

    Hi, I am trying to size a booster pump to drive 25-30 PSI into a triplex pump. I have run a test on the current configuration and the data can be seen in the picture below. I have deadheaded the booster pump without the triplex pump and it runs within spec. Then when i run the booster pump and...

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