Tapboost - the design for manufacture of a low voltage water pump to boost the poor domestic water flow rate

The main aim of this research is to increase a low water flow rate of 1 l/m up to a minimum of 6 l/m using a TapBoost pump. This pump will be used to support poor domestic flow rates in the UK & ROI. TapBoost was developed without the need for mechanical seals by using wet rotor technology making it the most efficient water boosting pump in Salamander’s pump range.
The various stages of design, testing and development of the TapBoost pump are reported in this paper. TapBoost is an inexpensive solution to improve the water flow rate given from a trickling single outlet anywhere in a domestic setting. TapBoost has been specially designed to be easily installed onto any existing or new water mains pipework. The main conclusions are as follows: i) the TapBoost was successfully designed, manufactured, tested and launched in March 2022, meeting the specification requirements given by Salamander Pumps to develop
and launch this new product, ii) The results showed that the pump delivers a boosted water flow rate of 6.75 l/m compared to the original water flow rate, without the use of the pump, of just 1 l/m, iii) The performance of the TapBoost is better than the leading competitor in the market.