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Whether you’re irrigating fields, moving liquid chemicals, or putting out fires, a high quality water pump will make the job go faster. Depending on your location, situation, and water output needs, there are a variety of pumps to choose from and you’ll want to make sure you’re getting the right one. Otherwise, your pump could be sucking air at a crucial moment, consequently burning up its engine and putting a costly and time consuming stop to your flow. Most people use water pumps to move water from one location to another, most commonly in terms of irrigating crops. If you’re lucky enough to have access to a deep water source with an easily accessible outlet, you can use a submersible pump. Unfortunately, as most farmers know, water sources aren’t always that easy to get to. Sometimes, you only have a shallow stream or the access to your reservoir is too small to get your pump entirely submerged. All centrifugal pumps need to be completely filled with water in order to work. This is called being primed. If the area is too small for submersion, you will need to connect a suction pipe to your petrol water pump. This pipe can be as long as needed to reach the water, but the longer it is, the bigger the suction head you’ll need. Otherwise, you’ll have so much friction that the pump can’t pull the water in fast enough to prevent bubbles from eating away at its impeller. If you’re on the processing side of crops or in the manufacturing of chemicals, you’ll need pumps to transfer those chemicals safely from one place to the next. Normally, since the liquids don’t need to travel too far vertically or horizontally, you can use a propeller pump. There are many kinds of these water pumps in Australia in a variety of price ranges, which is good since you’ll likely need multiple to get your chemicals from the beginning of the line to the end. Most propeller pumps are mounted permanently and will lift liquids about 20 feet per pump. Of course, you can always boost this to 30 or 40 feet by adding another pump stage. If you’re pumping out of a deeper, closed system, like a well, you may want to go with a deep well turbine pump instead. There are some situations, where you don’t simply want to move water; you want to move a lot of water really fast. In fire suppression for instance, you need the water to come out of the pipe and still have enough force to travel a great distance at full volume. In this case, you should look at gallons per minute per foot. How much water per minute per foot will you need to put out a fire? When it comes to fire trucks and tankers, you’re looking at more than 5000 gallons per minute per 500 feet! For this, you really need a centrifugal vertical turbine water pump. It’s really the only kind that will get the job done in this situation. And in case of fire, you want to make sure you have exactly what you need. Dunlite and Getech are the market leaders in the best quality water pumps. Our range includes petrol water pumps and specialist firefighting pumps. Contact us for a quote today.
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