Pump Building

[aiwa7777]

For projects in Northern Canada, where temperature can reach -40C and there is a lot of snow and rain.

(a) Can pump with electric motor driver be installed outdoors ?

(b) Is a building absolutely required for pumps (other than for comfort of operating and maintenance people) ?

(c) If we order a pump for installing inside a building then building is deleted from project scope, what changes will be requierd in pump to be installed outdoors?

Thank you

 

[cvg]

the OP is in northern Canada, the weather is way more extreme than in Minnesota. Having lived near Minnesota for a long time I find it hard to believe it could get any colder, but in fact it gets much colder for longer periods of time and the snow and ice piles up deeper. By the way, the OP never mentioned what he was pumping so assuming that it is water or hydrocarbons is pure speculation.

 

[ports394]

cvg, This is what happens when you put a bunch of engineers on something with no rules. Lol. We need the OP to come back and give us more restrictions or boundaries.

 

[SNORGY]

People in Canada (and yes I do live in a -40 C zone) winterize pumps here all the time.

Buildings are not always required. For the sake of the operators, we try to put rotating equipment into buildings when we can, but...

If we had to put a building around every pump, pretty soon the false economies would work completely the other way once you get all the EAC, H2S, LEL, summer case heat rejection, plot space, access, egress, pile locations, picker truck and crane access provisions sorted out.

Some thought needs to go into winterizing the pump but there are a variety of ways to do that cost-effectively other than a building.

Regards,

SNORGY.