truflo TSMP Series, Installation, Operation & Maintenance Manual

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SAFETY WARNINGS
WARNING
A pump is a pressure vessel with rotating parts that can be hazardous. Any pressure vessel can explode,
rupture, or discharge its contents if sufficiently over pressurized causing death, personal injury, property
damage, and/or damage to the environment. All necessary measures must be taken to ensure over
pressurization does not occur. Please review all pages of this manual.
WARNING
Never operate a pump with a blocked suction and discharge, this must be avoided in all cases, even for a brief
period under these conditions, this will cause superheating of enclosed pumped fluid and result in a violent
explosion. All necessary measures must be taken by the end user to ensure this condition is avoided.
WARNING
The pump may handle hazardous and/or toxic fluids. Care must be taken to identify the contents of the pump
and eliminate the possibility of exposure, particularly if hazardous and/or toxic. Potential hazards include, but
are not limited to, high temperature, flammable, acidic, caustic, explosive, and other risks.
WARNING
Pumping equipment Instruction, Operation, and Maintenance manuals identify accepted methods for
disassembling pumping units. All these methods must be adhered to. Specifically, applying heat to impellers
and/or impeller retaining devices to aid in their removal is strictly forbidden. Trapped liquid can rapidly
expand and result in a violent explosion and injury.
Truflo Pumps will not accept responsibility for physical injury, damage, or delays caused
by a failure to observe the instructions for installation, operation, and maintenance
contained in this Pump Safety Manual or the current IOM available at www.truflo.com.