NPSH Visualized
02-11-2025
If you’ve ever fallen asleep reading pump texts about NPSH, you’re not alone. But here’s an easy-to-understand, graphical approach to ensuring your calculations.
John Hall
Pump Consultant

Distributor Spotlight | Michael Smith Engineers Ltd.
01-14-2025
Viking Pump is proud to have Michael Smith Engineers (MSE) as a distributor in Great Britain. The company has a solid reputation as one of the GB's leading pump specialists, providing solutions for di...
See more

Four Ways to Source Hygienic Pumps
01-07-2025
There are really four main types of suppliers of hygienic, or sanitary pumps for food and pharmaceutical applications. There is no…

Pressure Relief Valves: Critical to Pump and System Safety and Reliability
01-26-2024
A key advantage of rotary positive displacement pumps is providing consistent flow regardless of changes in liquid viscosity or differential pressure. But should a downstream blockage occur, pressure ...
See more
John Hall
Pump Consultant

Circumferential Piston Pumps Are NOT Lobe Pumps
11-09-2023
Viking Pump invented the internal gear pump in the early 20th century; but did you know that we carry various other pump technologies? Most of them are easily identifiable based on their shape. But on...
See more
Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager

7 Essential Tools for Pump Repair
10-09-2023
Like any job, you need the proper tools to do it well – and the same is true for repairing or servicing positive displacement gear pumps. Below are helpful hand tools that Viking's pump experts recomm...
See more
Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager

5 Reasons to NOT Settle for Imitators
06-30-2023
Having a great product, with a great reputation, and being a technology inventor like Viking Pump®, positions you as a market leader with high visibility. As such, other internal gear pump manufacture...
See more
Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager

Viscosity Through Thick and Thin
03-10-2022
Viscosity is a measure of a liquid’s resistance to flow. And you don’t need to work in a laboratory to observe this. Anyone who’s spent any time in the kitchen has observed a variety of liquids with a...
See more
Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager

7 Things You Want to Know about Flanged Ports, but are Too Afraid to Ask
01-05-2023
Flange standards used on Viking pumps have been in place for over a century so EVERYONE should be experts on this now…right? It turns out not so much. There are various standards and various design di...
See more
Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager

PUMP CAVITATION: THE SYMPTOMS, CAUSE, DIAGNOSIS, AND CURE
09-14-2022
Customers don’t ask me to listen to quiet pumps. This is symptom #1 of a cavitating pump. The pump is loud. Descriptors like “growly”, “rumbling”, or “gravelly” are used to describe the atypically lou...
See more
Chad Wunderlich
Distributor Development Manager