Carrier Air Conditioning Company. Carrier Auxiliary Equipment. Part 8

Carrier, 2012. – 80 p.This chapter sets forth a review of the selection and application of centrifugal pumps used with air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
These are two major categories of pumps:
Positive displacement – reciprocating, rotary and screw.
Centrifugal – with a variety of impeller designs classified as plain (radial) flow, mixed flow and axial flow, each within a volute casing; also turbine (diffuser) type pumps.