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Old 19th March 2008 | 13:10
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Smilin_Ed
 
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Pump Damage Rate

smuff2000 wrote: "Being involved in automotive design for many years may I answer a question from a day or so ago, cavitation damage can appear very rapidly, even to the point of destroying a pump in a matter of minutes in extreme cases."


And I would expect that, since the pressures and flow rates generated by these pumps are many times that ever found in any automotive applications, the damage rate would be even faster.
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