Pump & Valve were approached by a customer with an application of packaging honey on a plastic jar packaging line. The pump needed to draw from several different tanks, having a suction line up to 6 metres long and the discharge being into the packaging line in the room next door, that fills honey jars varying in size.
CASE STUDIES
Self Priming Centrifugal Pumps for a Dairy Factory
Pump & Valve were asked to look at an application to divert waste water from a dairy factory past a failing drain that could not be repaired. The application was made especially difficult as the customer had already installed a 5m deep below ground tank with a very small opening – far too small for a conventional submersible pump.
Waste Water From A Concrete Plant
A large concrete products manufacturing site in Auckland were having issues with the pumps pumping waste water from their settlement pond. Mechanical seals would fail regularly from being dry run and – if the dry running did not wreck them – the fine cement particles in the waste water would. Typical mean time between services was 6 months or less.
Verderflex Hoses In Bredel SPX Series Pumps
A waste water treatment plant had been using Bredel pumps for pumping sludge around the plant. The hose life that they were getting from the Bredel hoses varied between 1,000,000 – 3,000,000 revolutions. This life was less than ideal and – as the operator put it – they always failed on a weekend or a Friday night!
Truck Mounted Bitumen Pump
A large roading firm wanted a pump for unloading bitumen from their trailer at a flowrate of 600l/min. The pump needed to be hydraulic driven as electrical power was not feasible. The bitumen temperature was between 160 – 180°C.
Trade Waste Sump Pump
A large dairy factory required a pump for pumping their trade waste up and out of a sump and into their trade waste treatment plant.