Advanced Engineering Boosts Reliability in Boiler Feed Pump: “Pump technology requires the extensive use of castings to form the complex shapes needed to guide process fluids through the machine. The first-stage double-suction volute is a complex and difficult casting containing many features that, without due attention, will cause casting defects and geometry errors. Using this process to control the design of the casting and the passage geometry of the six-stage boiler feed pump resulted in supplying a casting that exceeded the quality of the originally supplied component. The failure initiation, caused by the core hole, was eliminated as a result of new casting design philosophies, and other casting errors were also eliminated with the passageways.” – Pumps & Systems (pumpsandsystems.com)