Increasing Service Life and System Efficiency of Parallel Pumps Using Combined Pump Regulation

Abstract

The paper discusses the use of the combined control for a system of two parallel pumps to increase its service life. Using the combined control, the pumping system is controlled together by change the speed, throttling, and bypass. The power consumption of the pumping system is calculated for three methods of flow control: with minimum energy consumption, with maximum reliability, and control with a trade‐off between efficiency and reliability. In the case of control with maximum reliability, the energy consumption of the pumping system is higher than in the case of control with minimum energy consumption by 29.2%. In the case of the proposed trade‐off control, which provides acceptable reliability, the power consumption is higher than with the minimum energy consumption control by only 7.3%. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.