Motopumps are portable pumps, often used by firefighters. It is generally used to discharge water when floods occur or when fires are intervened, to draw water from sources such as lakes, ponds, seas, cisterns, pools and rivers. Motopumps can work with gasoline as well as some types of electricity. In the simplest terms, motopump is a motor-driven pump.
Regardless of the purpose for which they are used, the motor pumps must be checked and inspected regularly and regularly as in any machine. Motopumps are a complete machine and if they are not regularly serviced, they can inevitably fail at unexpected times. The sooner these failures are intervened, the greater the amount of damages that may arise in the future. During the operation of the motopumps it is most problematic: the strainers may be worn and worn, there may be wear on the impellers and impeller vanes, or the return bearings of the cups may be defective. These problems cause the pump flow to decrease, the head decreases and the efficiency losses of the motor.
According to the Regulation on Health and Safety in the Use of Work Equipment, which regulates the minimum health and safety requirements for the use of work machines and equipment in the workplaces, motopumps should be inspected and inspected at least once a year unless a specific period is specified in the standards. Checks to be carried out by authorized persons in test and inspection institutions are carried out primarily to determine whether the motor pump complies with the criteria shown in the project. Then, it is investigated whether it meets the criteria in the standards published by domestic and foreign organizations.
Our company performs the inspection of the motor pumps in accordance with the relevant legal regulations, standards and test methods published by domestic and foreign organizations. Particularly for motopumps used in fire extinguishing works, the following are the basic standards in these studies:
- TS 9811 Fire extinguishers - Medium and high expansion foam systems - Maintenance and inspection
- TS EN 671-3 Fixed fire extinguishing systems - Hose systems - Part 3: Hose reels with semi-rigid hose and maintenance of flat hose systems
- TS EN 12416-1 + A2 Stationary fire extinguishing systems - Powder systems - Part 1: Component properties and test methods
- TS EN 12845 Fixed fire extinguishing systems - Automatic sprinkler systems - design, installation and maintenance
