KMO Double-Suction Pump
Technical Information
Discharge DN 65 … DN 400 mm
Q (flow) up to 6000 m3/hr
H(head) up to 180 m
Speed 1450-- 2920 rpm
TEMP. -20 -- +80 C
Body pressure 25 bar
Voltage 380 V , 50 Hz
Description
KMO is a double-suction pump the total flow rate is distributed over several impellers arranged on a pump shaft. The head remains constant.
The most common type of multi-suction design in centrifugal pump engineering is a double-suction pump whose impeller pair is arranged back to back on the pump shaft . This arrangement serves to balance the axial thrust. regarding to this advantage and also due to their common pump suction nozzle and common volute casing, double-suction pumps with back-to-back impeller arrangement can be compact in design, e. g. for use as water supply pumps.
A double-suction pumps are employed when the flow rate required of a centrifugal pump becomes too large for the inlet cross-sections of one impeller or when the flow velocity in the inlet cross-section of the first impeller has to be reduced to prevent cavitation.
A double-suction pump with impellers arranged in parallel can be used to increase the flow rate at a constant head. In principle, fourfold or sixfold suction designs are possible. However, as the branching and connecting elements required for such designs are very costly, they are used far less frequently than double-suction designs.