A Letter from ProFlow Pumping Solutions’ Owner and President
Click here to read a letter from our owner and president regarding COVID-19.
Click here to read a letter from our owner and president regarding COVID-19.
After becoming a trusted pump distributor, it didn’t take us long to realize that, to deliver the service our customers expect of us, we needed to get serious about repairs. (Thus our 20,000 sq ft repair facility) But when is a repair the right answer and when is NEW TECHNOLOGY for and OLD PROBLEM a …
Mechanical seals are designed to produce an acceptably low level of leakage to function effectively. They are controlled leakage devises, not zero-leakage devices. Here is the reason that seal faces cannot be permitted to run dry: the frictional heat buildup of hard contact will very quickly cause them severe damage and lead to extensive leakage. …
If your pump system performance isn’t what it should be, it might make sense to look at the installation in three different areas: The suction side; The pump in the middle; The discharge side. This “segmenting” of the pump system might help with your troubleshooting process. Of course, one likes to think that the …
Is your system operating at the best efficiency point? How do you know? Read More »
It was one of the harshest boiler-room sump situations I’d ever seen. That was one ugly sump pit. The fluid was loaded with abrasive slag and a lot of it. This was at a power plant, actually. The sump pumps being used were fine, except for one thing – as the seals began to wear, …
Sump pump in the boiler room – it’s not for the squeamish. Read More »