By Norm Hall | August 9, 2010
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We received an interesting question this week from a consultant engineer: “How much temperature increase will I get in the chilled water from the pump? My secondary chilled water pump has a capacity of 1400 GPM at 100 feet” Let’s look at the answer.
ANSWER: Centrifugal pumps in hydronic systems do the work of moving gallons per minute of fluid against a differential head in feet. This work is defined as Brake Horsepower (BHP) also expressed in equation 1.
The maximum amount of horsepower available to heat the water is 1 minus the pump efficiency multiplied by the motor horsepower. Bell and Gossett refers to this as the Heating Horsepower (HHP) expressed in equation 2. 1 HP equals 42.44 BTU/Minute (equation 3) and BTU/minute is GPM times ∆T times 8.33 times specific gravity times specific heat (equation 4). The later two items are equal to 1 for water. Using all of this we arrive at a formula for ∆T shown as equation 5.
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