If you work in a company or industry that uses pumping equipment, finding greater efficiency can help improve profits and survive the competition. One way to make your operation more efficient is through the use of vacuum booster pumps.
What are vacuum booster pumps?
Vacuum booster pumps are dry pumps that are used in an increasing number of applications. They are especially useful in situations requiring fast pump down times and in circumstances where other pumps cannot be used due to energy usage or environmental concerns.
These pumps use positive displacement to boost the effectiveness of other types of pumps including rotary vane, piston, water ring, and oil ring pumps. By using vacuum booster pumps in combination with these other pumps, it can help to make your operation more efficient.
When integrated into multi-stage systems, boosters result in significantly higher performance, stronger vacuum levels and faster pumping speeds. Boosters are installed upstream of primary pumps.
What are the advantages of a vacuum booster pump?
Vacuum booster pumps have some significant advantages, including:
- Easily pumps gases and vapours as well as small amounts of condensed fluid.
- Low friction design makes it possible for this type of pump to be very energy efficient even at high volumetric speeds.
- Able to maintain high volumetric speeds while working at low pressures down to 0.001 mbar(a). Can be used over a wide pressure range.
- Can be easily integrated into a wide variety of pumping setups.
- The energy efficiency of these pumps can allow for overall reduced power consumption in an operation.
- Low maintenance – these pumps do not have any valves or rings, so there is less wear and tear. The normal service life for a vacuum booster pump can range from 7 to 10 years.
Applications for vacuum booster pumps
Vacuum booster pumps are used for a wide variety of applications across many industries. Their uses include composite moulding, medical applications, agricultural and food packaging, heat treating, chemical, degassing, pharmaceutical and optical coating applications to name a few.
Operating principles of vacuum booster pumps
These positive displacement pumps use two impellers that look like figure 8s rotating in opposite directions. The amount of air trapped by each impeller is one-fourth the amount of air displaced by the blower.
The impellers are timed to react to each other to main the high volumetric energy.
Contact PFS Pumps today.
PFS Pumps is Ontario’s premier provider and servicer of all types of industrial pumps. If you require vacuum booster pumps for your company, our technicians can recommend the right model or custom design for you. Contact us today to speak with a member of our team.