Why Does The Slurry Pump Trip? How To Solve It?

2025-07-02

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A slurry pump is a machine that increases the energy of a solid and liquid mixture through centrifugal force and converts electrical energy into kinetic and potential energy of the medium.It has strong wear resistance, high mechanical strength, does not age, and does not decompose toxins. It is widely used in metallurgy, mining, coal, chemical, power plants, sand extraction, environmental protection, municipal engineering and other industries, transporting suspended solid particles.

After a certain usage time, the slurry pump sometimes trips.At this time, we need to restart the device.In fact, this process can more or less damage the device.In order to ensure its normal operation, some hazard inspections are required, faults are eliminated one by one according to conventional methods, and then deal with them in time. What is the reason?

1. The motor is wet, resulting in excessive current.

2. The voltage of the submersible pump is unstable.

3. Control cabinet system failure.

4. The quality of the submersible pump motor.

5. The use of a head is much lower than the pump head, which leads to an increase in current, and excessive flow will lead to overcurrent.

Solution: Control the outlet valve of the slurry pump to open to reduce flow and reduce current to the allowable current range, or change the impeller diameter to reduce the pump pressure head.

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