Features

RECEIVING TANK: Heavy steel construction, mounted on steel legs, and fitted with thermometer and gauge glass.

MAKEUP WATER VALVE: All-bronze float actuated valve, flange mounted in tank head, permits entry of makeup water, when required, to replace system losses. Complete with strainer on makeup water connection.

PUMPS: Regenerative peripheral turbine vane type, vertically split, with removable covers and channel rings, ball bearings, stainless steel shaft, bronze impeller and mechanical shaft seals.

MOTORS: Drip-proof ball bearing type flexibly-coupled to pumps. Single phase motors 3/4 H.P. and smaller have built-in overload protection. Single phase motors 1 H.P. and larger and all three phase motors are furnished with magnetic starters in NEMA-1 wall-mounting enclosures.

UNITS: Unit is factory assembled on single steel base with pump suction piping complete, including strainer in each pump suction line. Simplex unit has one receiving tank, one makeup valve and one pump and motor. Duplex unit has one receiving tank, one makeup valve and two pumps and motors. Triplex and quadruplex units are also available.

OPERATION: Boiler feed pump(s) is controlled by a boiler water level controller mounted on the boiler. These controllers are usually furnished with integral low water cut-off and alarm switches. Boiler feed water is taken from the receiver, and if condensate has been lost in the system, it is automatically replaced by the makeup valve.