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    An airlift pump raises fluid by using compressed air to reduce the density of the fluid. The air is injected into the bottom of a pipe where it bubbles up and creates an upward air flow that pulls the surrounding liquid with it. While simple and requiring only an air supply, airlift pumps have limitations including a weak suction force, unstable flow rates, and an inability to control flow proportional to air input. A newer geyser pump design addresses some of these issues.

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    An airlift pump raises fluid by using compressed air to reduce the density of the fluid. The air is injected into the bottom of a pipe where it bubbles up and creates an upward air flow that pulls the surrounding liquid with it. While simple and requiring only an air supply, airlift pumps have limitations including a weak suction force, unstable flow rates, and an inability to control flow proportional to air input. A newer geyser pump design addresses some of these issues.

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    An airlift pump raises fluid by using compressed air to reduce the density of the fluid. The air is injected into the bottom of a pipe where it bubbles up and creates an upward air flow that pulls the surrounding liquid with it. While simple and requiring only an air supply, airlift pumps have limitations including a weak suction force, unstable flow rates, and an inability to control flow proportional to air input. A newer geyser pump design addresses some of these issues.

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    An airlift pump raises fluid by using compressed air to reduce the density of the fluid. The air is injected into the bottom of a pipe where it bubbles up and creates an upward air flow that pulls the surrounding liquid with it. While simple and requiring only an air supply, airlift pumps have limitations including a weak suction force, unstable flow rates, and an inability to control flow proportional to air input. A newer geyser pump design addresses some of these issues.

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    Some key takeaways about airlift pumps are that they use compressed air to lift liquids through a pipe, they have simple designs but low flow rates and heads, and they are often used in deep wells and wastewater treatment.

    An airlift pump works by injecting compressed air into a pipe carrying a liquid. The air bubbles up and reduces the density of the liquid-air mixture, causing it to rise up the pipe. The rising mixture lifts the liquid to the pump outlet.

    Advantages include reliability due to a simple design, no contact with mechanical parts, while disadvantages include high air compression costs, limited flow control and suction, and only being suitable for low heads. They are also prone to clogging.

    Airlift pump

    Airlift pump
    An airlift pump is a gas lift pump which is powered by compressed air.

    Principle
    The only energy required is air. This air is usually compressed by a compressor or a blower. The air is injected in the lower part of a pipe that transports a liquid. It usually bubbles into another larger diameter pipe. By buoyancy the air, which has a lower density than the liquid, rises quickly. By fluid pressure, the liquid is taken in the ascendant air flow and moves in the same direction as the air. The calculation of the volume flow of the liquid is possible thanks to the physics of two-phase flow. Airlift pump technology is superb due to its simple structure. However, it has the following weaknesses: Weak suction Unstable flow rate Frequent clogging Difficult flow control Low lift
    An airlift pump, powered by compressed air, raises fluid by entraining gas to reduce its density. 1. Air supply. 2. Liquid supply. 3. Air inlet port. 4. Air supply line. 5. Air port. 6. Air outlet. 7. Fluid intake. 8. Riser tube. 9. Air liquid mixture. 10. Pump outlet. L:Liquid, usually wastewater. LL:Liquid level. V:Vessel G:Gravel or solids.

    Utilization
    Airlift pumps are often used in deep dirty wells where sand would quickly abrade mechanical parts. (The compressor is on the surface and no mechanical parts are needed in the well). However airlift wells must be much deeper than the water table to allow for submergence. Air is generally pumped at least as deep under the water as the water is to be lifted. (If the water table is 50ft below, the air should be pumped 100 feet deep). It is also sometimes used in part of the process on a wastewater treatment plant if a small head is required (typically around 1 foot head). They can also be used in ponds and aquaculture to aerate and mix the water.

    Airlift pump

    Inventor
    The first airlift pump is considered to be invented by the German engineer Carl Emanuel Lscher (de), who lived in the second part of the eighteenth century. He discovered the airlift pump in 1797.

    Advantages and disadvantages


    The following paragraph exposes the advantages and disadvantages of the airlift pump compared to other pumping techniques.

    advantages
    The pump is very reliable. The very simple principle is a clear advantage. Only air with a higher pressure than the liquid is required. The liquid is not in contact with any mechanical elements. Therefore, neither the pump can be abraded (which is important for sandwater wells), neither the contents in the pipe can be abraded (which is important for archeological research in the sea)

    disadvantages
    cost: while in some specific case the operational cost can be interesting, most of the time, the quantity of air to compress is high compared to the liquid flow required.[1] [2] . Conventional airlift pumps have a flow rate that is very limited. The pump is either on or off. It is very difficult to get a wide range of proportional flow control by varying the volume of compressed air. This is a dramatic disadvantage in some parts of a small wastewater treatment plant, such as the aerator.[3] The suction is limited. This pumping system is suitable only if the head is relatively low. If you want to obtain a high head, you have to choose a conventional pumping system. Because of the principle, a lot of air remains in the liquid. In certain case, this can be problematic, as, for example, in a waste water treatment plant, before an anaerobic basin.

    Airlift pump

    Design Improvements
    A recent (2007) variant called the "geyser pump" can pump with greater suction and less air. It also pumps proportionally to the air flow, permitting use in processes that require varying controlled flows. It arranges to store up the air, and release it in large bubbles that seal to the lift pipe, raising slugs of fluid.[4]

    Notes and references


    [1] air quantity calculation (http:/ / www. sanitaire. com/ pdf/ Drawings/ AirliftPumpDwg. pdf)PDF(1.86MB) [2] airlift basic calculation (http:/ / www. airliftpump. com/ airlift_basic_calculation. xls) [3] New Pump Technology May Improve Small Flows, WVU NCSFC Clearinghouse (http:/ / www. nesc. wvu. edu/ nsfc/ Articles/ SFQ/ SFQw02_web/ SFQw02_NewPump. html) Accessed 2011-3-21 [4] Patent Application number: 11/654,448, January 17, 2007, Inventor: Masao Kondo

    External links
    Airlift calculation by Sanitaire (pdf document) (http://www.sanitaire.com/ pdf/Drawings/AirliftPumpDwg.pdf)
    A geyser pump, an improved airlift pump, powered by compressed air, raises fluid by forcing rising bubbles to displace fluid. 50. Air supply. 52. Air inlet port. 58. Liquid supply. 60,62. air supply lines. 64. upper end of air tank 86. 66,82. Air ports. 70. Upper air inlet of u-shaped elbow 74. 76 Air outlet. 84. Fluid intake. 65. Riser tube. 88. Displaced liquid. 90. Pump outlet. L:Liquid, usually wastewater. LL:Liquid level. VVV:Vessel G:Gravel or solids

    Article Sources and Contributors

    Article Sources and Contributors


    Airlift pump Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=495655536 Contributors: Ale jrb, Alvestrand, Andbrew.downes, AtholM, BertSen, Black.jeff, Brumbypump, Crowsnest, Fang Aili, Foobaz, Gaiatechnician, Gaomingwu, J JMesserly, John of Reading, Lavenircestlautre, Matthiaspaul, Nihiltres, Orfintain, Pietdesomere, Pietrow, Ray Van De Walker, Rijkbenik, Skarebo, Tabletop, Waqqasd, Woohookitty, 15 anonymous edits

    Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors


    File:Airliftpump1.PNG Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Airliftpump1.PNG License: unknown Contributors: Masao Kondo File:geyserpump.PNG Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Geyserpump.PNG License: unknown Contributors: Masao Kondo

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