Drinking Water Pump Station Design and Operation for Energy Efficiency

This research developed a guidance manual focused on drinking water pump station design and operation to minimize energy consumption. The manual will allow pump station designers to improve pump wire-to-water efficiency, perform periodic pump efficiency testing, understand the appropriate application of variable speed drives, and evaluate the potential annual energy, cost, and carbon savings from pump station efficiency improvements. In addition to the manual, a software tool to evaluate different design and operational alternatives based on annual energy consumption, GHG emissions reduction, and life cycle cost analysis is available on this project page under Project Resources/Web Tools. Published in 2015.

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