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The difference between diesel fire pump and electric fire pump

Diesel fire pumps are ideal for applications where a separate pump room already exists or where the pump room is located on an exterior wall. Facilities using diesel fire pumps include warehouses, aircraft hangars and industrial facilities. Since they have a larger footprint than electric fire pumps, they are not suitable for installations where space is small. Unlike diesel pumps, electric fire pumps can be located inside buildings. Office buildings and apartments are often equipped with electric fire pumps. In addition, upper floors sometimes install an additional electric fire pump above ground or basement to increase water pressure.

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One of the important differences between electric and diesel fire pumps is cost, diesel fire pumps are more expensive to install as they require other items such as fuel storage tanks and exhaust ventilation, in terms of maintenance and lifetime costs, electric fire Pumps require electrical service and have higher electrical costs than diesel pumps. However, diesel fire pumps require regular inspections of the battery, oil level, cooling system, hoses and engine in addition to the weekly run test. Overall, diesel fire pumps are costly because of their high frequency of repairs and the number of items to maintain.

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    In the fire fighting pipeline pump, according to the different installation methods can be divided into vertical fire pumps and horizontal fire pumps, many people have questions about these two common pumps, what is the difference between the two? Shanghai Xizhiquan will explain the difference between horizontal and vertical pumps.

    Obviously, different installation methods take up different space. Vertical pipeline pumps are installed vertically, covering a relatively small area, and vertical fire pumps do not require a foundation, while horizontal fire pumps need to be equipped with a base.

    According to the different structures of the two pumps, it can be concluded that there is also a certain difference in the ease of maintenance of the two types of fire fighting pipeline pumps. The impeller of the vertical fire pump needs to be dismantled from top to bottom, which makes maintenance more difficult; the horizontal fire pump only needs to have the inlet pipe removed so that the impeller can be overhauled, which is relatively simple.

    Due to the different inlet and outlet pipe directions, the pipeline connection between vertical and horizontal is also different. As the vertical pump is a bottom-up structure, while the horizontal fire pump is longitudinally arranged on the base, so the motor of the vertical pump and the pump body are connected in the form of sub-mouth connection, while the horizontal pump needs to use couplings to connect with the motor, and the horizontal pipeline pump needs to be corrected regularly.

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