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Practice Pumping Questions

PumpingQuestion 1 of 20

A single centrifugal pump will operate by itself (no parallel pump) to lift wastewater from a wet well to the plant headworks. The pump is running at constant speed. For this station, the pump curve and the system curve (static + friction) are provided in the tables. The plant influent today is about 1.3 MGD (extra information). Using linear interpolation between the closest table points, what is the expected operating point (flow and total dynamic head) where the pump curve intersects the system curve?

Pump Curve
Flow (gpm)Head (ft)
0110
400100
80080
1,00068
1,20052
System Curve
Flow (gpm)Head (ft)
040
40052
80072
1,00082
1,20095