New to all this but currently trying to set up a Rainwater Harvesting system for whole house use (except drinking). Looking into strong enough pump that will push water thru the filters and end up at around 5 - 6 Gpm inside at maybe/hopefully 40 PSI. Will tie pump, UV and solenoids to solar.
There are a number of factors you need to consider first.
Filters
- maybe run a series of larger to smaller filter medium so the filter does not block too quickly
- aim at large surface area filters to ease the effort required to push water through
- Consider disc filters which can be cleaned against cartridge filters which cannot.
Water flow
- check 5 to 6 gals per minute is what you need
- check 40 psi is needed.
Flow and pressure are linked.
A larger filter will make it esier to get a higher flow and pressure at the taps.
Each pump manufacture has charts which will show you the capacity of each pump and the operating pressure.
I am not sure if you will be able to get cahrts for filters that detail the pressure drop across the range of water volume through the filter, but look for them.