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Water-Ring Vacuum Pump Loses Vacuum

08/12/2009 4:15 PM

Water ring type vaccume pump maintaining less vaccume. Pump suppose to create -25 inch Hg vaccume but it is creating just -10 inch Hg vaccume. So what are the reasons for the same and what to do to solve this problem.

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Re: Water-Ring Vacuum Pump Loses Vacuum

08/12/2009 8:18 PM

What is the water in -out temperature.

Does it going donward after runing how long time.

This pump need water to be cool.

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Re: Water-Ring Vacuum Pump Loses Vacuum

08/13/2009 3:27 AM

We are using cooling coil to cool inlet water and recycle the water after cooling to reduce water wastage. In our system vaccume pump outlet water goes in a tank where we cool this water with cooling coil and again use it in vaccume pump for water ring. We are also using a circulation pump for water, installed in between water tank and vaccume pump.

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Re: Water-Ring Vacuum Pump Loses Vacuum

08/14/2009 5:59 AM

Did you check the pressure and line specifications for feeding cool water in the pump. Too less or too much of water is a basic problem for all water ring vacuum pumps. Do you notice any leakage of water from the pumps shafts? Heavy leakage of water from the pump could also be a problem. Mahess

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Re: Water-Ring Vacuum Pump Loses Vacuum

08/12/2009 11:19 PM

Is this the same liquid ring vacuum pump that is in your previous thread?

There it had a power problem and you had to throttle the suction. (I see you have gone from -25 psi to a more believable unit of -25" Hg.) Now it has a vacuum problem. Is this problem with or without throttling the suction to avoid the power problem?

The little that you have shared with us all indicates that you have too much air leaking into the system.

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08/13/2009 2:27 AM

This is not the same pump. It is another one but both the pumps are of same capacity used in two different production lines.

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Re: Water-Ring Vacuum Pump Loses Vacuum

08/13/2009 4:20 AM

The maximum vacuum able to be created by a water ring vacuum pump is that of the boiling pressure of the water at the temperature of the equipment. Refer to steam tables for a set of figures of the water/steam transition pressure at various temperatures.

A water ring vacuum pump will pull no vacuum at all at temperatures of 100degC and above, for example.

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