Friday, December 21, 2012

Water Pump For One-Storey Home Applications

Do you, by any chance, happen to live in a one-storey house but still experience drops in water pressure (i.e. your tap sometimes “fail” to give you adequate water)? If you answered “Yes” to this question, then, chances are, you might need a water pump in your house. Don’t have an idea which pumps to choose? Then read on to find out.

For starters, it depends on where you live. If, for example, you live in a city or a metropolitan area, chances are your tap water comes from underground water pipes laid out by the utility company several years ago, so the most likely reasons for the drop in water pressure are: 1) busted or corroded underground pipes, which means that they should be fixed first, making our discussion here moot; or 2) gradual decrease in pressure due to the numerous connections made to those government-owned underground pipes (i.e. the city’s water-consuming residents have “increased” in number). Whatever the case is, you can try using even just a one-line jet pump to try to artificially “increase” the water pressure in your tap and sort of “siphon” off as much water as you can, then consider installing a pressure tank to store the water and distribute it with the right amount of pressure around your houses’ kitchen sinks, lavatories, showers, etc. Of course, it would be advisable to involve professionals in doing all of these.

Now, if you are living in a rural area or outside the city limits, then perhaps your tap water comes from underground sources such as a well. First off, you should try to consult a water well specialist or geologist to find out if the decrease in your tap water’s pressure is attributable to the dwindling water supply in your water table (i.e. the reservoir of water lying underneath the grounds on top of, or near your house), or that your water table is just too deep, and the pressure has become inadequate. Most likely, the specialist will recommend that you use well water pumps.

Now there are many kinds of well pumps and you can go with several options here, depending on what the specialist says. For instance, if the water table is low-lying (i.e. less than 25 feet deep), he/she will probably recommend that you use single-drop jet pump systems. But if the water table is deep (i.e. greater than 25 feet), then a double-drop jet pump system or submersible (water) pumps, would probably be the way to go. Again, as in our foregoing discussion, you can pair this with a pressure tank to store the water and circulate it with the desired pressure around your house.

Bear in mind though that all we had done here is to just clue you in on what the experts might say in these situations, and the “final” recommendation will still come from them (or they might recommend something else entirely), so just trust the experts.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Possibilities of Having In-House Drinking Water Pumps

Drinking water supply is most needed both in homes and offices. While drinking water stations have the most sophisticated water pump systems, similar systems can also be employed in offices where clean drinking water can be readily obtained from.

In residential settings, the system may be more difficult to employ. Most households will be satisfied with drinking water deliveries from nearby stations. The deliveries had to be made regular, though, in order to prevent households from running out of drinking water supply. At present, this setup would perhaps be the most practical among the available options.  The deliveries are often offered for free when drinking water gallons are ordered in bulk.

As for offices, the setup commonly employed is just quite the same. Most offices, having been established for years, find lesser motivations in switching to having their own drinking water pumps. Similar pumps which are otherwise not meant for drinking water have been in use by industrial plants for plant processing purposes. Drinking water is provided for the workers but not necessarily from the plant itself.

Despite the present scenario just presented, it might be thought out in later years that having an in-house drinking water supply system would actually prove beneficial. One of the reasons why this could be so is this. In the future, the water supply system could actually grow from being a luxury to being a basic commodity. A similar development has far been expected from the water tank systems, but now they are fairly seen among many households in Australia. Pumps were then employed along with these tanks, which before had also been assumed as rather yet impractical. In the near future, this present inspiration might then be seen as a real thing for the case of in-house drinking water supply systems.

For the case of the offices, the possibilities could not be too far. Industrial plants would be seen as foremost among commercial establishments to push through with these, since they have been used to investing in costly machines. They have the expertise in terms of choosing which models and types would be best for supplying the industrial workers with drinking water. The convenience in-house water pumps would be bringing into the industrial company would also be a considerable advantage, and would thus be listed among the reasons why it might be best for them to pursue such an endeavour. When these leading companies have tasted for themselves the benefits of having in-house pumping systems for drinking water, they would then be inviting perhaps the rest of Australia to try and be benefited by the same choice.

Again, as for the residential setting, the proposal might take a longer while to push through. Nevertheless, the possibilities are still endless.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Physics Applications Optimised for Modernised Water Pumps

Water pumps and pipes work in accordance to physics concepts and principles. The concepts that dominate today’s models are the same basic principles that have governed simple machines in the ancient past. While gadgets today appear to be more complicated, the simplest of the principles dominating these machines can be learned and can be enjoyed as well.

A key insight to the understanding on how technology today has been able to rise to its present heights will be the idea that the application of a classical physical principle can be further explored through gradual experimentations with the most recent invention made according to that principle. The same insight can be directly applied to the modernisation of pipes and pumps Australia has been using today. When once they have been fairly used only with the simplest of simple machines, they are now giving way to more complicated processes. Again, the fundamental reason is that the basic processes have given birth to mid-level machines, and mid-level machines in turn gave birth to the enabling of easier tasking through high-end equipments.

One can know the significance of this insight by going back and re-examining the applications of Bernoulli’s principle in the context of the use of water pumps. While the discovery has been made already over a hundred years ago, the same discovery positions itself in a time frame of applicability that extends even up to the future. This is not only because of the wide relevance of the principle, nor only of its validity as an immutable scientific law, but also because of the further potential yearly being discovered through its continued exploration and use.

To view the picture in a wider angle, it might be well to review how the principle of Bernoulli has been applied to earlier and later water pump and pipe systems. The basic principle revolves around the relationship between fluid pressure and the fluid’s kinetic and potential energies. Through this principle, the determination of the pressure differences in different parts of the fluid contained in a tube has had a foundational base. This in turn gave way to making experimentations of changing the velocity and the height of the fluid in order to obtain a desired pressure difference enough to initiate a pumping action. These were only few of the concepts that have been used to invent the simplest pumping machines. These equipments were later combined in order to give birth to a system of machines that held on to the same basic physics principles. With all the other fluid flow concepts considered and experimented upon, machines with higher efficiencies have thus been born. The cycle has gone on and on until the most complicated yet most efficient machineries have dominated the pumping and piping industry today.

Indeed, while today you are already experiencing the benefits brought about by these gradual optimisations, you can even expect the future to give birth to even more modernised pumps Australia and the world will surely be taking advantage of.