a facility built to increase pressure to either pump water to higher areas or for long distances Click here to see a pumping station diagram as part of a detailed schematic of one of our Water Treatment Plants
A hydroelectric power plant that uses excess electrical production during low consumption periods to pump water from a lower to a higher reservoir, where it is accumulated; during high power consumption periods the process is inverted: the collected water is used, by gravity flow, to produce electricity At the present state of the art, pumping stations, while indirect, are the only technical solution for accumulating significant amounts of electrical energy
The combination of two or more pumps used to boost the discharge from tanker pumps to base-terminal storage, or used along the pipeline for added throughput
This is usually an underground structure that the foul (or surface water) sewage is discharged into The types vary but in smaller systems these comprise of a wet well, into which the sewage is discharged, and the wet well also houses submersible pumps which pump the sewage to its destination In a larger station there may be a separate dry well, adjacent to the wet well, which houses the pumps On some pumping stations the pumps may be housed above ground near the wet well