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Booster Pump

A booster pump is a generally a surface mounted pump used to maximize pressure in a fluid line or pipe line when pulling water or fluid from a storage tank or storage pit or pump station when there is low water pressure and flow which needs to be increased.

Bilge Pump

A bilge pump is a submersible pump which removes water from your boats bilge (the hull of the boat).

Bar

BAR is a metric unit of pressure.

1 BAR is defined as exactly equal to 100 kPa, or 14.50 PSI

Axial Flow Pump

An axial flow pump, often referred to as an impeller pump is a pump with an impeller in a pipe casing. The impeller of the pump is motor or engine driven with the rotation of the pump propeller allows the fluid being pumped to move axially along the pipe.

Accumulator Tank

An accumulator tank also known as a pressure tank is a storage vessel designed to hold water under pressure.