Quote:I've been waiting for the Engineer to show up! I'm injecting into my main flow line. The injector needs 15-20% positive pressure in order to run. The booster pump is what normally does that, with the inlet and the outlet are both post filter.

 

However my water filter hogs up like 5lbs of pressure, taking it from 20.5lbs pre-filter to 15.5lbs post-filter. So I would like to change to inlet to pre-filter location and just let the hydrology take care of things. The problem is finding a small auxiliary filter that doesn't take up much pressure but also has a small enough micron filter to keep the water clean and stay un-clogged for at least 12 hours.

 

Does that really layman explanation sound viable to you? It sounds to me like it will work but then again I basically dig ditches for a living. 

 

 

Let me see if I have this right; take a look at the really bad diagram that I cooked up and tell me how wonderful it is.

 

<p style="margin-left:40px;">     Injection Line

<p style="margin-left:40px;">-------| filter |---------| booster pump |-------

<p style="margin-left:40px;">                                                                I

<p style="margin-left:40px;">                                                                I

<p style="margin-left:40px;">      Main Line                                           I <-- Tie in point for Injection Line to Main Line (Must be 15-20% - 20.5 psi - higher psi than Main Line).

<p style="margin-left:40px;">-------------------------------------------------------------

<p style="margin-left:40px;"> 

And you want the inlet to occur before the filter. Do you mean the booster pump inlet or the tie in point inlet?

 

If you want the filter to be after the booster pump, that means that you are going to risk fouling up your booster pump with all the stuff in the water that ain't water.

 

Let me know if this is right or wrong and we can go from there.

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