Industrial boilers, for example on board a marine vessel, in a large industrial factory or power plant, are fed either fresh water or steam by a high pressure boiler feed pump. As the water or steam is fed round a system, they are sometimes referred to as boiler circulation pumps.
As taking suction from a condensate system is a high pressure application, steam boiler feed pumps are generally high head, low flow pumps, making multistage pumps a common choice. Side channel pumps are also a popular solution for high pressure boiler feed water pumps thanks to their ability to pump liquids with gas content.
