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Everything You Need to Know for Maximum Flow

March 2025

Mechanical seal selection

Crest offers many types of pumps with a variety of arrangements including magnetic drive, ...
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March 2025

How does a magnetic drive pump work?

Magnetically driven pumps are the industry standard when processing harsh and highly ...
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March 2025

Is there a difference between centrifugal and rotodynamic pumps?

Pumps often have the label as either centrifugal or positive displacement. But, you have ...
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March 2025

Insight into one of the worlds largest thermal power plants

Crest Pumps provides a unique, efficient and reliable chemical pumping solution for the ...
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March 2025

Hygienic Diaphragm Pumps

The DEPA Series L stainless steel, Hygienic Diaphragm Pumps are suitable for chemical ...
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March 2025

Understanding the Pump Curve: A Guide to Centrifugal Pump Performance

This may seem a basic topic but if new to selecting centrifugal pumps it is an essential ...
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March 2025

How to increase your pump efficiency with our UK built chemical pumps

When selecting larger pumps for capacities over 100m3/hr there are many factors to take ...
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March 2025

How to ensure a long life for your mechanical seal

Mechanical seals continue to be the number one cause of chemical pump downtime. This is ...
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March 2025

How to Choose The Best Pumps for Fume Scrubbers

As a project manager working in an industrial environment, you understand the importance ...
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March 2025

How long should a chemical pump last?

Crest Pumps built with a design life of 25 years. However, how long a chemical pump ...
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March 2025

Head vs Pressure - Technical Briefing

A History Lesson Around 400 years BC the Greek Philosopher Aristotle proposed a theory ...
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March 2025

Factors affecting pump efficiency

The overall efficiency of a centrifugal pump is the product of three individual ...
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February 2025

Crest Assoma Mag Drive Pumps

Mag Drive Pumps Metal Finishing Industries In the metal finishing industry, efficiency ...
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February 2025

Common Terms Used In The Pump Industry

Common terms used in the pump industry. Absolute pressure: The absolute pressure is the ...
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February 2025

Commonly Pumped Chemicals

During a recent survey of all enquiries we received for chemical applications we found ...
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February 2025

ATEX - General information

Explosive Environments Explosive atmospheres can be caused by flammable gases, mists, ...
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February 2025

A guide to Magnetic Drive Pumps

What is a Mag Drive Pump? A magnetic drive pump is a type of pump that uses a magnetic ...
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February 2025

A guide to centrifugal impellers

Centrifugal pump impellers come in many shapes and sizes, each having their own uses and ...
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February 2025

25 ways to break a pump

Over our 40+ years of processing harsh and acidic chemicals, we’ve seen our fair share of ...
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February 2025

10 ways to ruin a pump

Pumps of any design and shape are extraordinarily technical pieces of equipment that are ...
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January 2025

What is the difference between ETFE and PTFE?

Both Magnetic Drive and Mechanical Seal pumps are able to be customised and built with ...
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