Pump Design

You need to know how to design a pump.

Work on your communication skills (correct spelling, punctuation, etc.) so others understand what you need.

Are you designing a new pump for custom construction, or do you wish to purchase a pump for your application?

What is the liquid you want to pump? Any special characteristtics or conditions?

What volume of liquid are you trying to pump?

What is your system configuration? What pressures are needed at various parts of the system?

How will you power the pump to operate? Electric, engine, steam turbine, air, wind?

Think about these ideas and you are on a start for getting a pump.

Action #1

You go on google and research who makes pumps for a similar spec as the one your "job" asked you to design I assume that it gave already some indications about what has to be pumped and how.

Action #2

You make a choice of the pump type which the most appealing to you (if not technical at least from the esthetically point of view)

Action #3

You send a request for an offer in order to have a price

Action #4

With this price you go to your "job" and ask him (or it since job is generally not a person) if it will not be more economical to buy a pump since you do not know how to design it and a supplier has a lot more experience than you in making such curious devices.

I think it is the best way to take since designing a pump is NOT only compute it there is a lot of experimental work to optimize the volumetric efficiency, the mtbf of seals and bearings the wear of the plungers or gears a.s.o.

I can tell that because i was involved in pump designs for pressures up to 2000 bar

so that i know about the problem at least a bit.

Thousands and thousands of types of pumps are designed. There are today millions of pumps in the market. How can anyone in your company be dumb enough to ask you to design a pump when you do not have the slightest idea or information about a pump?