Pump Classifications Used in the Pump Search Database

PUMP CLASSIFICATIONS USED IN THE PUMP SEARCH DATABASE www.pumpfundamentals.com.com December 13, 2009

Industry type *Usage Pump type *Family Impeller *Service *Drive type *Features Materials Liquids style specialty agricultural Air piston Positive Axial flow AC motor Cast iron displacement Chemical Archimedes kinetic Double API process Compressed Ceramic Chemicals screw suction air cryogenic Axial flow Enclosed Aquarium DC motor Coated Desalinization Mixed flow Bilge engine Copper alloy Fuels axial Food and Fire protection Barrel emptying Open Hydraulic Center line FRP hydrocarbon beverage motor mounted s Mining and bellows inducer Double Lined Molten sulfur mineral volute processing Oil and gas canned motor inducer chopper Manual Entrained air Non-metallic Oil Petroleum refinery Industrial Circumferential Propeller Renewable Explosion Plastic/rubber Pulp piston energy proof motor Pharmaceutical laboratory Concrete volute Steam Impeller polypropylene Sea water agitator Pulp and paper Marine Diaphragm Recessed Corrosion Variable inducer Special alloy Sewage single/double (vortex) resistance frequency acting Sugar cane Municipal Double suction Single vane Fire systems Jacketed Stainless steel Sludge processing various nuclear Eccentric disc Low NPSHR Steel Slurries External gear Fountain toxic Residential Flexible vane grinder Mobile various In-line High Piggy back Waste water pressure various Internal gear High water pressure low flow jet Hydronic heating & cooling Lobe Rubber lined Manual Low sealless pressure high flow Magnetic drive metering Manual

1 Mixed flow multiphase Multi-stage horiz. nuclear Multi-stage vert. pond Pedestal sump Pressure testing sanitary Peristaltic (tube) Sewage Piston Shower (industrial) Plunger ram Sludge Progressive Solar cavity powered propeller Solids handling reciprocating Swimming pool Regenerative (peripheral) rotary Rotating casing (pitot)

Screw impeller Self-priming Side channel Sliding vane slurry Standard volute close coupled Standard volute separately coupled submersible Submersible sump Submersible vert. turbine Two/three screw thruster Vertical sump Vertical turbine