Pumps Key to Performance, Energy Savings
Second only to motors, pumps are the most utilized machines in the world. According to the Hydraulics Institute (HI), the industry’s primary forum for the exchange of pump industry information, industrial pumping systems account for approximately 25 percent of industrial electrical energy demand. The alarming realization regarding these statistics is that manufacturers appear somewhat indifferent when it comes to critical equipment such as pumping systems and the amount of energy required to operate them.