Suction Tanks
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Suction tanks are used by various businesses, industries and residences to maintain a steady supply of water. What is exactly a suction pump?
If you have a factory and need a water supply for that, and there is a river nearby, and you get yourself a pump and make the piping system. In this case, the delivery tank is the factory, and the suction tank is the river. It is as simple as that. In easy words, a suction tank is a reservoir to supply water to any system.
It is a closed container that maintains partial or complete vacuum inside it to be able to draw things into the inlet port.
New York Engineers designs and installs efficient suction tanks for commercial and residential projects maintaining the highest quality and strict standards. We design complete fluid distribution systems with necessary suction tanks, piping, fittings and accessories to deliver an effective water distribution system that never lets you down.
If you are looking to build a suction tank, we invite you to take the help of our experienced engineers and architects.
How does a Suction TankWork?
The suction tank is a tank that is maintained at low internal pressure, i.e., a partial vacuum that is less than the atmospheric pressure. It is to serve the function of a reservoir to provide a vacuum source to those instruments that need a low-pressure source to function.
The working principle of this suction tank is opposite to that of a pressure tank. In a pressure tank system, water pressure is created by using compressed air to push down on the water in a good system.
As the amount of water keeps lowering, the pressure drops and goes below the required amount eventually. The switch then activates requiring the filling of a pressure tank. So as we can tell, a suction tank works by maintaining a low pressure inside the tank, just like the pressure tank works by maintaining a high pressure inside the tank.
The supply pipe that leads up to a suction pump is very large. It is large enough that a full caliber ball cock of the pipe would be exposed to a strain too severe. Thus the large sizes of the supply pipes usually have a manifold header. This lets the inlet to the tank to be supplied automatically through many ball cocks.
The suction pumps that run from the house pump to suction tanks are mostly cross-connected to the street supply. This is done so that in case of an emergency, such as a fire, the water can be pumped from the city mains directly.
We can help you design the right type of suction pump for your project to achieve full functionality and profitability.
The Importance of Suction Pressure for Suction Tanks
Suction pressure is found on water pumps — the unit of measurement meters. The water from your tank goes to the inlet of the pump, and that inlet is the suction area of the pump. Suction pressure is the measure of how much water your pump is capable of sucking through that inlet. Many pumps will specify suction lifts. This indicates how far down your water pump can lift water from.
If you compare the position of your pump to the location of your tank, the suction pressure is important. All pumps must be able to take water in, or they will not be able to pump water. That will make your suction tank go dysfunctional.
We plan and design suction tanks with optimum pressurization so that they can distribute water without any problems.
The Need for Suction Tanks
If the large steam pumps were allowed to take water from the city mains directly, like the ones that are used for the fire pumps or to fill the house tanks that are located on tall buildings, they would cause a massive annoyance. Why?
Because when they would extract water from the city mains, they would reduce pressure in other supply systems of the neighborhood. Moreover, the operation of such pumps may also be the reason for water ram in the city mains, that will not only cause a significant amount of damage to the water supply system but will also be extremely annoying to other water consumers.
Due to these reasons, and also to be able to store enough water to provide when an unexpected shut down of the city mains happen, suction tanks are to be provided in all the large buildings.
We design and install optimum suction tanks that are safe to use and don't hamper the neighborhood water supply.
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Suction Tanks for Sprinkler Systems
Suction tanks can also supply water for fire pumps, and that is a good source of water for sprinkler pipes. Our expert engineers are responsible for the making and placement of the suction tank. They also ensure the size of a tank that is big enough to meet the demands of the sprinkler system for the amount of time that the sprinklers are estimated to operate.
We measure the demand of water supply in gallons per minute, and then the duration in minutes as well. If the fire department has a way of tapping into the supply, we will add that volume of water to the size of the tank. If a fire pump pressurizes the system, then the requirement of the pressure of the fire sprinkler system and the use of the fire department are the primary factors that we consider for the selection of the pump.
