pumping station

[′pəmp·iŋ ‚stā·shən]

(civil engineering)

A building in which two or more pumps operate to supply fluid flowing at adequate pressure to a distribution system.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Pumping Station

a structure that usually consists of a building and pump units (operating and standby), pipelines, and auxiliary equipment. Pumping station buildings may be above ground (with no connection between the foundations of the walls and the equipment), semisubterranean (with a shaft to permit location of the pumps at the required level above the medium being pumped), or subterranean. There are also floating pumping stations (located on a barge or pontoon).

Modern pumping stations use manual, automatic, or remote control. Pumping stations are a part of water-supply and sewer systems and are used in petroleum pipelines, irrigation and drainage systems, and navigable canals.

REFERENCE

Florinskii, M. M., and V. V. Rychagov. Nasosy i nasosnye stantsii, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1967.

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