WATER PRESSURE BOOSTER PUMP

DEFINITION

A booster pump is a machine which will increase the pressure of a fluid. The may be used
with liquids or gases but in this case we may used for liquids. A water booster is similar to a
water compressor, but generally a simpler mechanism which often has only a single stage of
compression,and is used to increase water pressure of water already above ambient pressure.
Booster may be driven by an electric motor, hydraulics , low or high pressure air or manually
by a lever system. Those powered by compressed air are usually linear actuated systems,
where a pneumatic cylinder directly derives the compression piston. A high pressure
pneumatic drive arrangement may used the same pressure as the output pressure to drive the
piston, and a low pressure drive will use a larger diameter piston to multiply the applied
force.
PURPOSE OF WATER PRESSURE BOOSTER PUMP

A water pressure booster pump can increase the water pressure coming out of the faucets and
appliances in your home. Sometimes the water pressure coming in makes for poor water flow
in your home. This might be the case if it takes a long time to fill the tub or washing machine
or the outdoor hose comes out in a trickle. This booster pump can fix these problems.A
plumbing system will typically lose eight psi of water pressure in a two-story house, getting
the water from the basement up to the second floor bathroom. With no water flowing, the
static pressure at the street main may be 60 psi, but the static pressure at the second floor
basin might be 51 psi. Houses that are above the street or have third story plumbing fixtures,
have a pressure disadvantage.Tall residential properties requiring additional water pressure to
serve upper floors. For a tall home connected to a community water supply providing
incoming water at only 30 psi, for example, the top floor may see 17 psi unless a booster
pump and pressure tank are installed.(Very tall buildings such as skyscrapers and offices and
multi-story apartment buildings are more likely to install a rooftop water supply tank which is
fed by a pump from street level but which in turn provides water down through the building
by gravity.)
THE COMPONENTS OF A WATER PRESSURE BOOSTING SYSTEM

The above picture shows a simple one line jet-pump and pressure tank connected to the
incoming water line in a building. The incoming community water supply line which
normally is fed through a pressure regulator and into building supply piping is first connected
to a water pump, usually a 1-line jet pump. The pressure regulator control is not shown in this
sketch.The water pump is in turn connected to a pressure tank, possibly a large one to give a
good high pressure water supply to the building.As water is drawn into the home (someone
turns on a faucet) the pressure tank feeds pump-boosted water pressure to the building, and as
water pressure drops in the water tank, the jet pump draws more water from the community
supply line, boosting its pressure into the pressure tank.Typically the booster pump pressure
control switch will be set to operate in the 30-50 psi range, providing good water pressure to
the building.
WHAT KIND OF WATER PRESSURE BOOSTER PUMP DO WE NEED?

The reason that a typical residential property needs just a one-line jet pump to provide its
water pressure boost is that there is already water arriving at the building under some
pressure - the pump does not have to combine lift of the water from deep in the ground to
high in the building.Our photo of a pressure booster pump and tank system ( at page top)
shows that stainless steel parts were used to enclose the pump parts: this system is designed
for outdoor use in a non-freezing climate. You can see the pressure gauge and the gray box
housing the pump pressure control switches above the stainless-steel covered pump assembly
itself.When incoming water pressure at a building is low, a water pressure "booster pump"
may be installed on upper building floors or on a building roof to provide improved water
pressure for the occupants of upper building floors.If the incoming water pressure is from a
municipal system and the building is just two or three floors high, the booster pump might be
on ground level. But if the incoming water pressure at a building is being provided by a well
pump and water pressure tank system, and if the building is taller than three floors, the
existing well pump may not be capable of delivering adequate water pressure nor adequate
water floor to occupants of a fourth or higher floor.