What are the types of a commercial lift station pumps?

A wastewater lift station is a pump station that uses a collecting system to transport wastewater or sewage from a lower to a higher elevation. Pump stations are frequently used to transport wastewater from residential and commercial buildings to wastewater treatment plants. Sewage lift stations are generally used to cut the cost of gravity flow sewage systems' original capital development. The benefit of this method is that it eliminates the need for costly excavation for sewer pipe installation, often known as trench shoring.

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Installing a sewer line sometimes necessitates digging deeper than 10 feet below the surface. While lift stations within a wastewater treatment infrastructure offer intrinsic benefits over the high expense of underground gravity sewage systems, manually monitoring these lift station assets for equipment health can be time-consuming and labour-intensive.

Pumps for commercial sewage lift stations are available in a range of designs (effluents, grinders, etc.) Two questions must be answered in order to decide which type is appropriate for your application:

How big will the solids have to be pumped? What is the discharge pipe's diameter?

Simply put, 2-inch particles cannot be pumped through a 1-inch pipe. If these are the application's characteristics, a grinder pump will be required to cut the solids into smaller, more manageable chunks. This is only one example of how the type of pump you choose will be influenced by the pump duty.

The many types of pumps, as well as the applications for which they are best suited, are described below:

1: Sump Pump: Dirty water applications where solids are not typically present and are unlikely to ever exceed 3/8”.

2: Effluent Pumps: Partially or completely treated wastewater applications with solids of 1” or less.

3: Sewage Pumps: Commercial sewage applications where solids are 2 ½” or larger.

4: Vortex Pumps: Applications involve lengthy, stringy, and/or fibrous solids in trash. Raw sewage lift stations, storm water applications, and waste from paper mills are all examples.

5: Grinder Pumps: When the solid size is expected to exceed the discharge pipe's capacity. These pumps contain a hardened stainless steel cutting system that shears solids so they can pass through smaller tubes. Also beneficial in high-pressure discharge systems seen in groups of homes, motels, schools, retail malls, and other similar structures.

To meet the International Plumbing Code (IPC) criteria, any pump chosen must be capable of maintaining a velocity of 2 to 8 feet per second (See Table below). However, it's always a good idea to double-check local plumbing codes, as they may go beyond the IRC's requirements.

Your pump model selection will be based on the following:

- Flow rate

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- Solid size

- Pump style

- TDH

- Discharge pipe size

- RPM

It's All About Control

On the designs, all of these features, as well as the unique pump selection and control needs, should be noted. The type of Level Controller required for the pump system, as well as all of the following components that are included within the control panel itself, will be part of the control requirements:

- Breaks the connection

- Begins with Overload Protection.

- T-O-A (Test-Off-Automatic)

- Security Systems

- Pump Rotation is automated.

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Hello all.

I found a bit of info doing a search here, but I have a few more questions. I am a consulting engineer. usually do commercial, but i got this job to provide an ejector for a residential 1-family house.

1. is a duplex gringer overkill? should i just do a simplex?

2. whats the usual sizing for these? #bathrooms? sqft of house? # of people?

3. any preferred manufacturer's?

any tips on sizing and spec'ing would be great!
thanks all.

ken
Is there a particular reason you need a grinder pump for this home? Are they trying to serve a basement that cannot gravity drain to the city sewer? Will you be pumping directly into a city sewer? Or will it be into a septic tank?

The only experience I have with individual home pumps was for a STEP system. We used Orenco Systems' pumps, but not their tanks (used a local supplier). It probably doesn't apply to your project, but they do have an informative website and they sent me a wealth of information (which I left behind at my old company when I went back to school). 1. Most of these sewage applications only use a simplex pump.

2. These pumps generally do not run all the time, so the sizing is not really accurate. The pumps generally operate at 5-45 gpm, depending on the discharge head that you have to pump against. Unless you have some extreme discharge head condition, you will probably see 40-45 gpm pumping capacity.

If you go to Zoeller.com, they have a sizing program. You can size by the house method or by the fixture method.

Unless you have an very large house, go with the standard simplex pump package. You can double check the size of the sewage pump against the capacity of the water line into the house.

3. There are numerous vendors of these small pumps. thanks for the replies everyone.

I thought a duplex was a bit much. My boss put a duplex in the proposal and i'm trying to convince him its not necessary.

I saw on another thread the e-one pumps are pretty popular. any good?
I will check the other brands mentioned above. I've used goulds before. Let me make the recommendation that you specify a 1 hp motor on the pump as well.

Many suppliers utilize a 1/2 HP as standard and these motors can be under a load because they not only drive the impeller; but, they also drive the cutters.

We've seen better lifespans with the larger motor and most manufacturer's can supply a 1 hp motor. I'd recommend that you pick a pump brand based on what is readily available in the area. Grinder pumps break down, and its probably more important to find one that can be readily serviced than to find the most efficient one. This especially applies to a simplex station.