Editor’s Note: Responding to requests from An additional feature is that the drive required to determine the feasibility of
readers many of whom work with vacuum could be set up to operate at a speed that installing VFD’s on the current LRVP
pumping systems Pumps and Systems is stays within the horsepower rating of the system. The system design engineers
motor and automatically adjusts as the should take a serious look at incorporating
introducing this new column with the
LRVP power demand decreases. this approach in future design
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specifications.