WATER SUPPLY
APPLICATIONS
In booster systems, vessels are used as buffer tanks to intermediately store the difference between the pumped volume flow and the volume flow actually needed. Vessels are also required to decrease the switching frequency of a pump and reduce peak loads.
The pressurised cushion of air in the gas space is set approximately below the pump’s switch-on pressure. When pressure falls below the switch-on pressure, the pump switches on and pumps water.
If consumers remove a relatively small volume of water, the difference in the buffer vessel is stored until the pressurised cushion of air on the switch-off side has compressed and the booster system has switched off.
When consumers take water, the interim water is taken from the buffer vessel until the pressurised cushion of air has fallen to the switch-on pressure and the booster system switches on again.
HVAC
APPLICATIONS
In closed heating-cooling systems, the water expands or contracts as the system is heated up or cooled down. Expansion vessels are used to compensate for the fluctuations in volume between maximum and minimum temperature within a permissible range.
Nema expansion vessels are used to maintain pressure in heating, cooling and solar power systems.
The pressurised cushion of gas supports the water column within the system and is set before a reserve of water is poured into the vessel.
When the system heats up, the pressure rises and expansion water flows from the external system into the water space: the pressurised cushion of air in the gas space is compressed.
When the system cools down and its pressure drops, this counter pressure pushes water from the membrane back into the system. This releases the pressurised cushion of air in the gas spac
