Pumping station
A pump station (depending on the design type pumping station or elevator called) is a plant from the hydraulic , which serves water from a lower-lying water to a higher elevation in pumps .
Pump stations are used in many areas of water management :
- Operation of fountains in palace gardens (e.g. the pumping stations at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich , which are still working today )
- Water level regulation from
- natural waters (flood protection)
- artificial waters / canals
- Irrigation of agricultural land
- Drainage of damp areas, land reclamation
- Drinking and industrial water pumping ( waterworks )
- Sewage pumping ( sewage pumping station )
- Storage of water for energy generation ( pumped storage power plant ) or other purposes ( return pumping station )
As pump are centrifugal pumps , screw pumps , pumping stations or pneumatic elevators used.
The Berlin pumping station in Radial System V to Hobrecht , with which the sewage was pumped up 19 meters on the way to the Berlin sewage fields
Small pumping station for water supply in Niederweiler near Müllheim (Baden) , built in 1908, photo December 2010
See also
Web links
Wiktionary: Pumpwerk - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations