Stop Swapping Your Pumps and Start Testing Them Instead, TAPPICon24

Does anyone out there run two pumps in parallel so that if one fails you can swap to the other pump with little or no consequence to operations?

I’m sure many of you do, and if you have read the title of this article you probably think I’m crazy because if you don’t swap your pumps then how do you know the “standby” will work when you need it?

Let me explain why most folks are alternating their run time between pumps and why this is wrong.

During my years in the paper industry, I’ve seen only two reasons for an installed spare pumping arrangement: 1) the designers felt that the consequence of failure was too severe to only have one pump, and only with a backup pump could the availability of the function be secured to a tolerable level; and 2) money was no object. (I never actually experienced this second phenomenon.)

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