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22 Water & wastewater
Product news

Contents Company focus: DP-Pumps

Automation makes growth automatic
Gaining a competitive market edge by offering high quality pumps is not easy
14

Business news 4 with demands for increasingly higher standards. One company in the
Netherlands has transformed itself from a largely domestic supplier of pumps
and boosters into a highly efficient manufacturer of quality pumps.
Product news 8
Company focus 14 Product focus
Hydro-powered metering pumps 18
Supplier of liquid dosing pumps, LDT Dosiertechnik GmbH, is now offering a
Product focus 18 specialised metering pump from Dosatron which works on hydro power and
requires no electrical supply.
Applications 20
Chemical & abrasive handling
Features 30 Erosion, corrosion & chemical attack 20
Paper mill pumps are put under immense strain by the transfer of viscous
Frequently asked questions 42 material during the pulping process. This article looks at how one company was
able to extend the life of pumps at an Italian paper mill with protective coatings.
Product finder 44
Water & wastewater
Diary dates 48 Flood prevention scheme protects community 22
Tidal surges and overflow from the burn have created flooding problems in
North Renfrew for 300 years. The UK's Renfrewshire Council recently
World Pumps February 2017 edition. commissioned work on a 10m flood prevention scheme which includes an
Cover image courtesy of Kekyalyaynen/Shutterstock. underground pumping station to protect more than 300 homes and businesses
in the area.

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 Contents 3

26
Water &
wastewater 34 Water & wastewater

28
Energy
efficiency

38 Chemical & abrasive handling

New compressor design offers significant savings 34

Eco solution increases fish rehabilitation 26
The Bull Run Watershed is the primary drinking water supply for the City of
Portland in the US. It also plays an important role in supporting the larger aquatic
ecosystem of the Sandy and Lower Columbia rivers where some of the fish species
have recently been in significant decline, due to overly warm water temperatures.
Air compressors are at the heart of many industries and can be found in factories,
industrial plants, food processing facilities and water treatment centres. This
article looks at a new design which has brought energy savings of more than
20% for one UK water company.

Energy efficiency Chemical & abrasive handling

Data cooling centre goes green 28 Reducing effects of corrosion and erosion 38
The cooling system at one of Google's latest data centres has gained plaudits for Industrial processes everywhere need pumps to operate efficiently. The latest
its green credentials. High-performance pumps by a German manufacturer have pump designs and coating technologies offer significant improvements and, by
been installed to cool the servers in the 9,000 m complex. lessening the effects of corrosion and erosion, productivity is enhanced and
running costs reduced.
Water & wastewater
Chamber filter presses benefit from AODD model 30
Pump FAQs 42
Chamber filter presses are one of the most effective methods for thickening and
drying sludge. This article compares the use of conventional displacement
pumps and AODD pumps for filter press operations.

Dates to remember
8 11 February 6 9 March
7th Basra Oil & Gas International Conference & Exhibition, MEOS 2017 - 20th Middle East Oil & Gas Show and
Basra, Iraq, www.basraoilgas.com Conference, Manama, Bahrain, www.meos17.com
14 17 February 7 9 March
CHEMTECH World Expo 2017, Mumbai, India, www.chemtech- SMAGUA, Zaragoza, Spain, www.feriazaragoza.com
online.com/events/chemtech2017

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4 Business news
ITT appoints Luca Savi as Lewa acquires Sekos
chief operating ocer plant in UAE
ITT Inc has named Motion Tech-
nologies president Luca Savi as
chief operating ocer of the
company.
In this new role, Savi will focus on
driving business performance by
expanding and strengthening
ITTs management system and
processes, while continuing to
grow operational capabilities
across the company.
We are very pleased to have a
proven business leader like Luca
take on this key role, said ITT CEO
and president Denise Ramos.
With this change, I also look
forward to having the opportunity
to take a more prominent role
driving innovation and market
growth, enhancing our partner-
ships and brands with customers
and other external stakeholders,
and engaging with employees
across ITT.
In addition, and unrelated to this
structural change, Industrial
Process president Aris Chicles
has announced that he will be
leaving ITT.
I want to recognize Aris for the
signicant contributions he has
made to ITT. He played a vital role
in enterprise strategy and busi-
ness development over a number
of years and was directly involved
with our 2011 spin-o, which
Amarinth wins second order for Totals Egina FPSO
Amarinth has secured a further
order for API 610 OH2 pumps to
be used on Totals new Egina
Floating Production Storage
Ooading (FPSO) vessel.
Amarinths Malaysian operation
received this second order for
API 610 OH2 super duplex pumps
for a desanding and process
water treatment package aboard
the Egina FPSO vessel following
its successful delivery of a
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Luca Savi, ITTs new chief
operating ocer.
unlocked signicant value and
created the foundation for who
we are today, said Ramos.
In addition, over the past three
years, during a period of volatile
market conditions, he has led the
transformation of IP providing a
foundation for the future. I want
to thank Aris for his commitment
and contributions to ITT and wish
him all the best in the future.
Going forward, IP will continue
to drive a strategy focused on
managing through the existing
macro-economic environment,
while delivering long-term growth
and market share gains and
strengthening operations, which
Luca will help support in his new
role, added Ramos.
www.itt.com
previous order for API 610 OH2
pumps with Plan 53B seal support
systems.
The 200 000 barrels per day
capacity Egina FPSO vessel,
which is being built by Samsung
Heavy Industries of Korea at a
cost of US$3.3 billion, will arrive
in Nigeria around April 2017
and will be working in Totals
Egina deep water eld situated
150 km o the coast of
German metering and process
diaphragm pump manufacturer
Lewa GmbH has signed a
purchase contract with Seko
Middle East FZE, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Seko SpA, to take
over the entire plant in the United
Arab Emirates.
The deal includes all assets and
the chemical injection package
(CIP) business for the oil and gas,
petrochemical and power plant
sectors.
The acquisition is part of the
Lewa Groups strategy of special-
izing in pumps and integrated
systems solutions.
By connecting in-house engi-
neering and production, we
control the entire value chain and
can ensure high quality. At the
same time, we expect an improve-
ment in our competitiveness in
this sector, said Peter Wagner, CEO
of Lewa GmbH and responsible
for the Industrial Division.
Nigeria in water depths of
up to 1750 m.
Oliver Brigginshaw, managing
director of Amarinth, said: We are
delighted to provide these addi-
tional pumps to the Egina FPSO
project, an order which also
underlines our decision to open
our oce in Malaysia last year
enabling us to oer even better
support to our rapidly growing
customer base in Asia Pacic.
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A new market is also opening up
for Lewa, supplying products to
power plants. Seko has already
served customers with CIPs. We
intend to further cultivate and
expand these contacts, said
Wagner.
A smooth transfer of business
activities is planned for the
coming weeks, with the retention
of all sta. The factorys current
certications for OHSAS 18001,
ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and the
ASME U-Stamp for the produc-
tion of pressure vessels will be
transferred.
Sylvain Latuilerie, who previously
managed the local Lewa company
in Dubai, will be the managing
director of the new Lewa Nikkiso
Middle East FZE.
www.lewa.de
www.seko-group.com
Seko Middle East FZE in
the United Arab Emirates.
www.amarinth.com
An Amarinth API 610 OH2 pump for
the FPSO Egina during testing.
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6 Business news
Energy Recovery partners with Dchting Pumpen
Energy Recovery Inc has signed a
master agreement with Dchting
Pumpen, packaging its Pressure
Exchanger technology with the
German pump manufacturers
pumping solutions.
The partnerships packaged solu-
tion will be provided through an
Energy Services Agreement (ESA).
The Prime Performance ESA will
work by packaging the PX Prime,
with installation, service and main-
tenance for the energy recovery
solution. The agreement will allow
Sulzer pumps selected for two
major water projects in Brazil
Sulzer is to provide water trans-
portation pumps for two major
Sabesp water supply projects in
Brazil.
The orders comprise ve HPDM
pumps driven by 9100 hp electric
motors for the Sao Lourenco
water supply system and six BK
vertical turbine pumps driven by
5000 hp electric motors for the
Jaguari-Atibainha Integration. The
deliveries will take place in
January and March 2017
respectively.
Sao Lourenco is a completely new
water supply system that will
provide around 6400 litres of
water per second, beneting more
than 2 million people in the
western part of the metropolitan
region of So Paulo. This is an
investment of US$700 million in a
public and private partnership.
The Jaguari-Atibainha Integration
will transfer 8500 litres of water
per second from the Jaguari to
the Atibainha dams and vice
versa, depending on water
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desalination customers to use this
technology without requiring any
substantial upfront costs. Instead,
customers will pay for the tech-
nology over time through a
percentage of the total savings
that the solution generates.
By utilizing the Prime Perform-
ance ESA as a vehicle for delivery,
we have eliminated a signicant
barrier to entry for those
customers who seek plant opti-
mization but are unable to secure
nancing. We have often
scarcity. Atibainha Dam is part of
the existing Cantareira Water
Supply System that is responsible
for providing water to more than
10 million people. This is an
investment of US$170 million
provided by the State and Federal
Governments.
Brazilian water and waste manage-
ment company Sabesp is respon-
sible for providing water and
sewage service in 366 Sao Paulo
State municipalities.
www.sulzer.com
A HPDM pump from Sulzer.
For more business news,
read Pump Industry Analyst every month.
Download a sample copy at www.pumpindustryanalyst.com
discussed the cyclicality and
relative lack of size of our total
addressable market within desali-
nation. The Prime Performance
ESA and newly formed partner-
ship with Dchting Pumpen
could increase the attractiveness
of the desalination market by
availing the company of signi-
cant retrot opportunities
and the potential of recurring
and more predictable
revenue streams, said Energy
Recoverys president and
CEO Joel Gay.
Ruhrpumpen supplies seawater
lift package for Cyrus FPSO
The Cyrus FPSO.
Ruhrpumpen has announced the
successful commissioning of a
seawater lift pump package on
the Cyrus oating production
storage and ooading (FPSO)
vessel owned and operated by
Avantgarde Petroleum Co.
The package consists of three
main pumps (vertically mounted
ZW 20x16x30 model) and one
startup seawater lift pump
(vertically mounted ZW 12x8x19
(A) model).
WORLD PUMPS February 2017
Dr Carsten Dchting, CEO of
Dchting Pumpen, said: We look
forward to continuing our part-
nership with Energy Recovery to
deliver a unique solution that
includes both industry-leading
energy recovery and pumping
equipment. We are excited
at the prospect of accessing
a new segment of the
desalination market with this
new solution.
www.energyrecovery.com
www.duechting.com
The pumps were manufactured,
tested and commissioned by
RP India and designed by RP
Specialists in Mexico.
The Cyrus FPSO has a storage
capacity of 600 000 barrels and
uses tri-fuel (gas, crude oil and
heavy fuel oil) red steam boilers
and turbo generators to meet
captive and export power
requirements.
www.ruhrpumpen.com
8 Product news
WORLD PUMPS February 2017

Harmonics' surveys keep distortion in check

Power and automation
provider, ABB, is oering on-site
harmonics surveys to help
companies reduce the risk
of harmonic distortion.
The surveys, which are carried
out by ABB or a member of its
network of authorised value
providers (AVPs), ensure compa-
nies understand their harmonics
challenges and that they are
complying with G5/4-1
recommendations.
Harmonics surveys that look at
all the potential risks are one
of many services oered as part
of ABBs 20+20 vision for
improving customer outcomes in
the water industry. Caused by
non-linear loads such as variable- ABBs harmonic surveys help companies reduce the risk of harmonic distortion
speed drives and other rectier and ensure they comply with G5/4-1 recommendations.
technology, high harmonic The monitoring equipment is harmonic levels and conrms
currents and high harmonic connected typically for a week to compliance with the Energy
voltage distortion can cause a record site conditions. Data gath- Networks Associations G5/4-1
wide range of problems, often ered from the monitoring phase is engineering recommendation.
causing disruption to business then used to produce a compre-
operations. hensive report that analyses www.abb.com

Variable speed retrofit Little Red Schoolhouse

on show at AHR Expo
Fluid management systems
manufacturer, Armstrong Fluid
Technology, will demonstrate its
Design Envelope Vertical-In-Line
Retrot at the 2017 AHR Expo in
Las Vegas, from 30 January 1
February 2017.
The Design Envelope Vertical-In-
Line Retrot allows building
owners to replace the
moving parts of an installed
Armstrong constant speed
pump while retaining the
existing pump casing, insula-
tion and piping.
The solution provides owners
of existing constant speed
pumps with an opportunity
to save up to 70% on energy
costs by upgrading to vari-
able speed. The Design Enve-
lope technology
accommodates future
changes in ow require-
ments and its variable
speed operation means
longer equip-
ment life
(20%-30%),
and greater
reliability.
there's no need for a pressure test
after the installation. With all of
these savings in installation time,
labour costs for the retrot project
are kept to a minimum.
www.armstronguidtechnology.com
schedule Q1 2017 released
Bell & Gossetts commitment to
education continues with virtual
curriculum that is available to a
global audience through its
Online Little Red Schoolhouse
(OLRSH).
System design is the focus of
upcoming training sessions at
LRSH, where engineers, contrac-
tors and installers can receive
hands-on education in the latest
HVAC system design, from
plumbing systems to chilled water
and steam systems for commer-
cial building applications.
In-person courses are designed to
meet industry credentialing
requirements and bridge the gap
between theoretical knowledge of
HVAC systems and real-world
applications. In addition to system
design, participants also learn
about proper installation and
maintenance of hydronic and
steam systems.
Students can choose from three
courses to expand their knowl-
edge of pump fundamentals,
piping systems and waterside
economization. These courses are
intended to complement the
more in-depth, hands-on experi-
ence students receive during the
in-person courses, and all of the
courses are eligible for IACET
CEUs.
For LRSH's Q1 schedule and
continuing education credit infor-
mation, seminar descriptions,
representative information and
enrollment, visit: www.bellgossett.
com/training-education.
www.bellgossett.com

Design Enve-
lope solutions
dont require dierential
pressure sensors and because The Design Envelope Participants are able to take what they learn at the Little Red Schoolhouse and
they reuse the existing casing, Vertical-In-Line Retrofit. directly apply it on the job.

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10 Product news
BPMA launches EU Directives advisory service
The British Pump Manufacturers
Association (BPMA) has introduced
a new advisory service to help
companies achieve and maintain
the correct Conformity Assess-
ment (CE) Marking procedures
and documentation.
The BPMA has for many years
provided generic information to
its members on EU Directives
which specically aect the pump
Clark Solutions adds versatility to its peristaltic pumps
Pump, valve and instrumentation
manufacturer, Clark Solutions is
oering its peristaltic pumps, the
Boxer 9K/9QQ and Boxer
15KS/15QQ with optional DC gear
or stepper motor drives.
Designed for OEM applications,
each pump model is rated for
continuous operation and available
with either three, four, or six roller
VSDs prove themselves in New line oers reliable
demanding applications dosing for food safety
Two new high-power VSDs
from Danfoss Drives have
shown they can handling
demanding pump applications
for Exsel Pumps, provider of
specialist pump hire services.
Exsel Pumps specialises in
providing pumps with up to
1200 mm (48 in) discharge
to cover breakdowns in a xed
plant, to deal with sewage or
ooding emergencies or to
provide increased pumping
capacity. The drives from Danfoss
are 250 kW units from the newly
extended VACON 100 range are
being used in a mobile pump
control room constructed within
a 10-ft shipping container
by Ralspeed, a Danfoss Drives
PartnerNET Competence
Centre.
www.worldpumps.com
industry. The BPMA believes it is
the only UK organisation that
specically addresses the eects
of EU legislation on suppliers of
liquid pumps.
Building on this important infor-
mation transfer, the BPMA has
introduced its new advisory
service to help companies
achieve and maintain the correct
CE Marking procedures and
systems. The Series 9K/9QQ is
available with several 12 or 24 VDC
motor and gear box options plus a
24 VDC stepper motor version
with a NEMA 17 rating. The DC
motor and gear box options are
12 VDC - 116, 260 or 520 RPM or
24 VDC - 33/107, 315 or 520 RPM.
Series 15KS/15QQ oers an easy
'Clip-On' pump head and a clam-
Motor control equipment is an
essential element for these chal-
lenging applications. Exsel Pumps
has been sourcing motor control
systems from Ralspeed for many
years, and is a long-time user of
VACON products from Danfoss
Drives. They are typically used in
emergency situations so the relia-
bility of the drives is of paramount
importance.
www.danfoss.co.uk
The Danfoss drives in use by Exsel
Pumps.
WORLD PUMPS February 2017
documentation. Through this The cost of this service will be
new service, the BPMA will site 1,000.00 + VAT and expenses
visit a companys premises in (for BPMA Members).
the UK and carry out an evalua-
tion of its on-site Technical File, www.bpma.org.uk
CE Marking, Declaration of
Conformity, and other compli-
ance procedures. It will then
provide an information folder,
oer specic advice and
information and submit a
written report.
shell design to facilitate tube
changes. The 15K/15QQ Series is
available with several DC motor
options and a 24 VDC stepper
motor (NEMA 23) option. These
peristaltic pumps are available in
a 12 VDC - 312 or 437 RPM or 24
VDC - 298 or 420 RPM gear motor
versions.
www.clarksol.com. Boxer 9K/9QQ Peristaltic Pump.
German pump supplier, LDT proportional dosage based on
Dosiertechnik GmbH, has added its adjusted dosing rate to within
a new Dosatron food line propor- 3% according to API 675.
tional pump to its portfolio,
oering reliable and accurate www.dosatron.com
dosing for food safety and sani-
tary applications
The D3FL2N LDT Dosatron food
line proportional pump operates
using hydro power direct from
the water network supply line and
requires no electricity. Its hydraulic
motor uses just the ow and
pressure of the water to run. This
makes the unit exible and easy
to install with no need for the
connection of power or pressu-
rized air pipes.
The D3FL2N LDT
The D3FL2N is a high accuracy Dosatron food
volumetric dosing pump that line proportional
provides repeatable continuous pump.

WORLD PUMPS February 2017
Expansion of quick
disconnect couplings
Power management company,
Eaton has expanded its FD85
series of quick disconnect
couplings, providing reliable
connections for additional sizes.
The quick disconnect couplings
help prevent downtime caused by
leakages, pressure drops and
contamination of hydraulic uid in
industrial and mobile equipment,
oil and gas, and construction
applications. The couplings are
Celebrating the sale
of one million VSDs
Welshpool-based manufacturer of
variable frequency drives, Invertek
Drives, is celebrating the sale of
one million variable frequency
drives worldwide.
The companys current production
rate is in excess of 160,000 units
per year showing an annual
growth rate in production of
more than 20%. Invertek exports
them worldwide for use in appli-
cations including general automa-
Rhydian Welson, Inverteks sales and
marketing director.
now also available in 1 in and 2
in body sizes, giving engineers
more exibility and choice of
coupling.
There are now six sizes in the
thread to connect FD85 Series,
ranging from in to 2 in and all
carry a Lloyd's Registry Certicate
for oil and gas applications as
standard. The independent certi-
cation provides assurance that the
couplings will perform to industry
standards.
www.eaton.com
Eatons FD85 series
of quick disconnect
couplings.
tion, pump control, HVAC building
services, elevators and marine
equipment.
Inverteks variable frequency
drives are used to control the
speed of AC Induction motors. As
around 28% of worldwide elec-
tricity is used by industrial motors,
this means demand for the drives
will continue to rise.
Rhydian Welson, Inverteks sales
and marketing director said that
the company is now selling prod-
ucts in more than 80 countries
and oers all customers the same
high level of service through its
network of distributors.
To meet growing demand,
Invertek is investing in a new
5,000 m2 factory, which will
enable it to produce in excess of
400,000 drives per year.
www.invertekdrives.com
Product news 11
Dry vacuum model for
semi-conductor industry
Japanese pump manufacturer, the The model EV-L is a compact, low
Ebara Corporation, has released its power consumption model with
new model EV-L water-cooled corrosion resistant materials
dry vacuum pump for the semi- employed as standard, and with
conductor industry. the optimal temperature prole
appropriate for the process
The model EV-L is a dry vacuum application.
pump designed for medium-duty
applications such as metal and www.ebara.com
poly etching. The model EV-L is
an addition to the current model
EV-S designed for light-duty appli-
cations (load lock room, test rigs,
PVD equipment, etc.) and the
model EV-M, designed for harsh-
duty applications, such as thin
lm deposition systems. The new
model completes Ebaras line-up
of optimal performance dry
vacuum pumps oered for sale
across the range, from light-duty Ebaras new model EV-L water-cooled
to harsh-duty. dry vacuum pump.
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12 Product news
INDOWATER 2017 considers Indonesias
fast-growing water & wastewater industry
Indonesia's largest international
water and wastewater trade show,
INDOWATER 2017, will take place
from 12 -14 July 2017 at the
Jakarta Convention Center, in
conjunction with INDORENERGY
and INDOWASTE.
The event takes place every year
alternately in Jakarta and Surabaya
and this year, Jakarta is hosting
the trade show. INDOWATER 2017
is the 13th International Water,
Pump Industry Awards 2017 Gala Dinner celebration
The Pump Manufacturers Associa-
tion (BPMA) has announced that
its Gala Dinner and Pump Industry
Awards 2017 will take place on 23
March at the Crowne Plaza in
Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.
The countdown is on to the
pump industry's biggest celebra-
tion. The Gala Dinner is the high-
New series of diaphragm Compact series oers
metering pumps launched economy and simplicity
Manufacturer of uid handling
technology, Pulsafeeder, has
launched the PULSAPRO series of
hydraulically actuated diaphragm
metering pumps for the down-
stream oil & gas, chemical
processing and water treatment
industries.
A variety of enhancements extend
the API-675 compliant metering
pumps pressure and ow ranges,
improve accuracy, and simplify the
hydraulic management system
while reducing the pumps
footprint.
Pulsapro pumps are positive
displacement, hydraulically actu-
ated diaphragm metering pumps
that combine the eciency of a
plunger pump with the sturdiness
of a diaphragm seal to eliminate
www.worldpumps.com
Wastewater & Recycling Tech-
nology Expo & Forum which
caters for the fast-growing water
and wastewater industry in
Indonesia.
This show will bring together over
10,000 industry professionals and
experts also over 550 exhibitors
from 30 countries. It is proven
platform for industry professionals
to nd out about latest trends
and developments and to build
light of the industry's social
calendar where it celebrates the
very best in the sector. Finalists
and winners are awarded certi-
cates and trophies in the charged
atmosphere of the awards
ceremony.
The BPMA is inviting companies
and individuals to book a table to
leakage. They provide accuracy
and repeatability a 5-year drive
train warranty. New improve-
ments to the line of PULSAPRO
680, 880, and 7120 pumps meet
the needs of the downstream oil
and gas, chemical processing and
water treatment industries.
www.pulsa.com
and reliability. The Compact series
The new
Pulsapro
diaphragm
metering pump.
valuable partnerships. It is also
where water supply & sewerage
companies, consultants, contrac-
tors, industrial wastewater treat-
ment professionals look for
cost-eective solutions and
technology.
INDOWATER 2017 will also provide
the stage for the gathering of
professionals in the water and
wastewater industry, including
government ocials, regulators,
host customers or seats for their
teams. There will be live entertain-
ment, good food and the chance
to celebrate with industry's best
and brightest. Over 100 tickets have
already been sold for the event.
All nalists will receive signicant
promotion throughout the
industry, both online and in print,
Manufactured by SPX Flow in the
Asia-Pacic region, the new
Compact series gives customers
the chance to benet from
Lightnin mixing technology in a
more economical, simpler variant
of mixer or agitator.
The Lightnin Series 10 and Series
70 mixers are known for their high
level mixing performance, eciency
mixers are ideal for open tank
applications, for example in munic-
ipal, industrial water or wastewater,
and mining & minerals slurry proc-
esses, as well as for sealed tank
applications, for example in chem-
ical process applications requiring
mechanical seal.
This new series oers many of the
features of the other Lightnin
WORLD PUMPS February 2017
The Indowater 2017 Expo & Forum
will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia.
water and sewerage companies,
manufacturers, industrial users and
consultants.
www.indowater.merebo.com.
and if you or
your company
is selected as a
Category
Winner, there
will be substan-
The Pump Industry
tial promotional Awards Gala Dinner will
benet. take place on 23 March.
www.pumpindustryawards.com.
SPX Flows new
Compact series.
range of mixers including a
choice of high eciency impellers
and a gearbox designed by SPX
Flow specically for reliability in
mixing applications while keeping
simplicity of design. Gearboxes
are manufactured locally in the
Asia-Pacic region, where SPX
Flow has precision tooling, testing
and metrology capability.
www.spxow.com

WORLD PUMPS February 2017
New sizes added to
universal seal pumps
Four new sizes have been added to
Viking Pumps universal seal pumps
Viking Pump has added the G,
AK, AL and M sizes to its existing
series of 'universal seal' pumps.
This includes the addition of a
smaller size <10 GPM (2 m/hr).
These heavy-duty, foot-mounted
pumps are designed for a broad
range of applications that require
continuous operation at pressures
up to 200 psi.
Viking Pump has added the G, AK,
AL and M sizes to its existing series of
universal seal pumps.
Submersible model
helps fight Zika virus
WAYNE Water Systems recently
announced the launch of its WWB
WaterBUG Submersible Water
Removal Pump with Multi-Flo
Technology, which is now assisting
with water removal problems for
homeowners in Puerto Rico.
According to WAYNEs main
distributor in Puerto Rico, the
WaterBUG units are in demand
due to wet weather and recent
Zika virus concerns.
The Multi-Flo Technology allows
the WaterBUGs user to select the
WAYNE Pumps WWB WaterBUG
Submersible Water Removal Pump
with Multi-Flo Technology. (Photo:
Businesswire)
The models in this series can be
applied to both thin and thick
liquids, are capable of operating
under suction lift conditions and
can be positioned to meet
common piping congurations.
Seal options include packing,
single component seals, cartridge
lip seals and cartridge single and
double mechanical seals. Dierent
models are constructed of
dierent materials, ranging from
cast iron, to ductile iron, to
carbon steel, to stainless steel
externals with optional coatings
and treatments to satisfy specic
application needs. The series now
has a total of 16 dierent sizes,
with ows to 1,600 GPM (364
m3/h).
www.vikingpump.com
appropriate discharge for the water
removal application easily from
either the top or side of the pump.
The side discharge works well for
water removal in open areas. For
removing water in conned
spaces, the top discharge of the
WaterBUG may be selected for
eliminating water in window wells,
baths and hot tubs. The company
says this is critical to reducing
structural damage, as well as in
the ght against Zika.
Capable of pumping up to an
impressive 1,257 gallons per hour,
the WaterBUG simply connects to a
standard garden hose and can
remove water to one sixteenth of
an inch on the surface, making any
surface virtually dry. The WaterBUG
also features a multi-ring suction
strainer lters debris, ensuring the
suction intake remains clear to
minimize clogging.
www.waynepumps.com
Product news 13
2017 Spaix User
Conference in Dresden
Specialists in software and lectures on new program features.
internet solutions for the pump It is mainly aimed at manufac-
industry, VSX - Vogel Software, has turers of centrifugal pumps and
announced the dates of the 2017 users within the uid handling
Spaix User Conference, which will industry, the chemical industry as
take place in Dresden on 6 April well as the process and plant
2017. engineering industry. The presen-
tations content is designed for
The Spaix software solutions are executives and specialized engi-
comprehensive systems for the neers, product management and
selection, conguration and quote sales and marketing employees.
generation of centrifugal pumps
available for platforms such as www.spaixuserconference.net
Windows, web and mobile. VSX
Vogel Software develops applica-
tions for the selection and calcu-
lation of uidic components and
systems. The introduction of the
pump selection software Spaix,
Version 5 will be a highlight for
the company in 2017.
The one-day conference will The Spaix User Conference will take
provide a mix of user reports and place on 6 April 2017.
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WORLD PUMPS February 2017

DP-Pumps

Automation makes
growth automatic
ith ever increasing demands for higher standards, gaining a
W competitive market edge by offering high quality pumps is a
tough proposition. However, one company in the Netherlands has
transformed itself from a largely domestic supplier of pumps and
boosters into an organisation that is a highly efficient manufacturer of
quality pumps that comply with the highest international standards.

It almost goes without saying
that most pump manufacturers
like to emphasize quality when it
comes to marketing their prod-
ucts. Within many sectors of the
industry, both national and inter-
national, authorities require that
pumps conform to a particular
set of standards depending on
the application. However, having
satised the relevant standards,
what processes and procedures
can manufacturers adopt to gain
a competitive market edge
through oering high quality
pumps?
Occupying 16,000m of manufac-
turing space DP-Pumps has the
capability to manufacture up to
100,000 vertical and horizontal
sheet metal multi-stage pumps
and 5,000 pressure boosting
systems a year, primarily for
drinking and process water. DP
is principally regarded as a
manufacturer of building services
booster sets, reports Michael
Schneider, managing director.
However, our pumps can be
used wherever there is a require-
ment to boost pressure and
transport water, and we are
active in many industrial sectors
from food processing to re-
ghting.
Internationally, DP sees itself as a
relatively niche player and
Michael Schneider says that this
requires a very dierent sales
approach from that which oper-
ates in the Netherlands. Pumps
are manufactured for other pump
companies to sell globally under
their own brands, whilst DP
branded pumps are supplied by
a network of over 100 distribu-
tors supported by sales-experi-
enced DP engineers.

In Alphen, in the Netherlands,

DP-Pumps has, in recent years,
invested in resources that it
believes delivers both products
of the highest quality and
encompass advanced manufac-
turing processes and enlightened
after sales support for its
customers.

Founded as Duijvelaar voor

Pompen in 1955 and starting to
manufacture stainless steel pumps
in 1980, the company has under-
gone a massive transformation
over the past half-century
enabling it to become a major
player in the Netherlands and
develop sales in many parts of Figure. 1. Using robots enables the company to manufacturer a diuser every 45 seconds and an impeller every 30 seconds for its
the world. multistage booster pumps.

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 Company focus 15
WORLD PUMPS February 2017

The starting point
The business model that has
formed the basis for the develop-
ment of DP has provided many
long term business advantages.
Michael Schneider takes up the
story: The concept was to build
on our market share in the Neth-
erlands and move on from there.
This was because we could not
rely upon the support of our
existing pump supplier. However,
as demand for our products grew,
by 1983 we recognised opportu-
nities outside the home market
and started exporting booster
pumps and booster systems
around the world, resulting in a
new production plant being built
in 1990. This success has been
based on manufacturing a quality
product and ensuring that all
international distributors have full
technical and sales support.
Securing a leading position in
the domestic market was
achieved through pursuing a
policy whereby every booster set
in a new building is sold directly
to installers. In most cases, DP
knows where the booster sets
are installed, enabling the
company to approach the
owners for maintenance
contracts. When the end-of-life-
time is imminent, the company is
in a strong position to replace
the old unit with a new one.
Today, we have more than
25,000 maintenance contracts
throughout the country, says
Michael Schneider. These
contracts are managed by a large
mobile maintenance team that
covers the country, providing 24/7
coverage. Most importantly, it
provides us with continuing
contact with all our customers.
Investment
Essential to growth and devel-
opment of the company was to
upgrade and expand the manu-
facturing facilities. The goal was
to keep tight control of all
manufacturing processes and
procedures and that involved
bringing as many elements as
possible in-house. With only a
handful of exceptions, such as
castings, motors, seals and raw
materials, the plant is self-
contained.
The rst part of the factory
upgrade programme started back
in 1998 with the introduction of
new machinery and the develop-
ment of working practices that
reected the latest concepts in
production management.
However, it was in 2003 that
work commenced on the facili-
ties which can now be seen in
the plant. Since then there has
been a steady introduction of
new equipment and a reconfig-
uring of the manufacturing work
flow. This investment has
enabled the company to manu-
facture multistage pumps,
including the latest 125m
pumps.
Manufacturing
DP not only designs pumps, but
also designs and manufactures its
own tooling and develops its
own manufacturing processes. In
this way it has control over all of
its processes and procedures.
Should a problem occur it can
be handled internally, without
having to resort to external
service providers. When
designing pumps the companys
R&D department works closely
with the technical and produc-
tion teams so that machinery
and tooling can accommodate all
aspects of the design.
For certain tasks, the company
will design and build machines
that are dedicated to specic
manufacturing processes such as
machining, milling, turning,
stamping, and spark erosion. The
company has more than 300 tools
in its stocks and each one has
been manufactured in-house. The
quality of all tools is essential to
ensure that all products maintain

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a specic standard, continues
Michael Schneider. When a tool
goes over 80% of its tolerance
level it is repaired and reset at
60% of its tolerances to ensure
continued quality assurance.
Extensive use is made of robots
and the company is one of a
small number of pump manufac-
turers that use robots throughout
its manufacturing processes.
Currently it has 26 robots in use
and all have been programmed
in-house to replicate operations
that were previously done by
hand. This is one area where the
experience and expertise of the
workforce combines with systems
programmers and designers.
Robots have been built into
purpose-designed cells for
bringing parts together for opera-
tions such as laser welding,
placing parts on the production
line for the next operation and
nally on to containers for
despatch to the pump assembly
hall. Using robots enables the
company to manufacturer a
diuser every 45 seconds and an
impeller every 30 seconds for its
multistage booster pumps (Fig.1).
The introduction of robots has
enabled the company to increase
its production capabilities and
introduce new pump lines.
Figure. 2. The production of booster systems is one important aspect of the companys business and plans are already at an
advanced stage for the development of a new generation of booster pump sets.
www.worldpumps.com
Assembly
Pump assembly at DP is a virtually
paperless process. All pump orders
commence with programming a
chip device dedicated to the order
and this contains a full bill of
components that goes with the
pump throughout its complete
assembly, through to stores and
eventual despatch. This provides
DP with a full history of the
assembly for product traceability
should the end user experience
any problems with the pump.
The information on the chip
informs the operative what type
of pump is being built and what
components are required at
each work station. Only when
each stage of assembly is
completed can the part-assem-
bled pump move on to the next
stage. The chip also incorporates
a warning system that alerts
operatives if the wrong compo-
nent has been used.
The company is constantly looking
at where it can enhance production
and regularly reviews all working
practices says Michael Schneider.
Collaboration between our
designers, computer programmers
and our production and assembly
personnel is crucial to our success.
We have the capacity to build
100,000 multistage pumps a year
and while robots help to enhance
production techniques, the role of
skilled operatives throughout all
areas of our plant cannot be under-
stated. Their eorts are made easier
by the constant availability of
components when and where they
are required, so we can avoid any
production bottlenecks.
In 2010 the opening of the third
hall provided the resources to
optimize the assembly of booster
systems and other pump types.
According to Michael Schneider,
the production of booster systems
is one aspect of the companys
business (Fig.2) that is the focus
of further development. Plans are
already at an advanced stage for
the development of a new gener-
ation of booster pump sets and
resources will be made available
to expand the resources in the
booster systems assembly hall.
Customer focused
In order to be able to respond to
urgent requests for pumps from all
parts of the world means that the
company needs to hold stocks of
components to be able to manu-
facture pumps at short notice. As
a result, it can build almost any
multistage pump within one hour
when required. Booster sets can
normally be shipped two weeks
WORLD PUMPS February 2017
after order, but often much quicker
when required.
Whilst the company is very much
looking to expand its global pres-
ence and brand awareness, this is
not compromising its eorts to
retain and grow its home market
where it dominates the building
services sector. We are constantly
searching for opportunities to
widen our customer oering, says
Michael Schneider. Our 24/7 main-
tenance operation throughout the
Netherlands involves having a eet
of 45 service vehicles centrally
controlled from Alphen on the
road throughout the year.
Summary
In a relatively short period, DP has
transformed itself from a largely
Netherlands-focused supplier of
pumps and boosters into an
organisation that is a highly e-
cient manufacturer of quality
pumps that comply with the
highest international standards. In
part, this has been achieved by
strong nancial investment and a
far-reaching view of how to
harness the latest manufacturing
technologies allied to a motivated
and skilled workforce.
We have spent many millions of
Euros on the development dp in
recent years to make this one of
the most advanced and ecient
pump manufacturing sites in the
world, reports Michael Schneider.
We have invested in plant,
machinery, IT systems and
design, as well as training our
workforce. We will continue to
invest in the DP-Pumps brand to
ensure that we stay at the front
of innovation and delivering the
highest quality pumps to
customers all over the world.
DP-Pumps
Kalkovenweg 13
2401LJ Alphen aan den Rijn
The Netherlands
www.dp.nl
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18 Product focus
WORLD PUMPS February 2017

Hydro-powered
metering pump
upplier of liquid dosing pumps for over 25 years, LDT
S Dosiertechnik GmbH, is now offering a specialised metering
pump from Dosatron which works on hydro power and requires
no electrical supply. The proportional pumps are installed directly
into the water supply line and are operated by a hydraulic motor
which only needs the flow and pressure of water to operate.

A viable alternative
Water powered metering pumps
remove concerns relating to
energy eciency and oer an
alternative to the more commonly
used electrically operated
metering pumps, They have been
successfully applied across many
industries including environmental
and hygiene applications, water
treatment, car wash, metal
processing, printing industry,
horticulture and animal health.
ATEX and FDA certied models
have further extended the use of
this technology to areas such as
chemical, petrochemical, mining
and food processing.
Pump operation
Water operated proportional
metering pumps use a volumetric
hydraulic motor that enables
continuous injection of liquid or
soluble concentrate. Requiring
only water as a power source, the
concentrate is drawn independ-
ently and mixes with the driving
water within the pump. Electri-
cally driven piston or diaphragm
metering pumps dispense the
desired dosage in the process
stream depending on the set
number of strokes or pulses. The
water driven proportional
metering pump, however, ensures
dosing is always proportional to
the water ow, according to the
manually adjusted dosing rate,
even if there are ow and pres- powered proportional metering higher concentrations. The design
sure uctuations in the water pumps is not aected by piping of the pump further eliminates
mains. lengths so these exible units can the possibility of overdosing.
be installed in any location
Electrically driven pump alterna- without compromise to perform-
tives require a downstream ance; giving them a distinct Choice of housing
mixing process to create a useful advantage over venturi based In addition to the economic
solution. The hydro-powered technology. benets the Dosatron pump
proportional metering pump, oers the user, a choice of
however, combines the functions Dosatron proportional metering housing and sealing materials are
of a water meter, an injector and pumps are available for ows available to suit application needs.
a mixer into a single device. The from 0.7 m/h to 20 m/h, with A high resistance to metering
continuous and immediate mixing operating pressures from 0.12 to liquids is ensured through the use
in the chamber of the dispenser 10 bar and a dosing rate in the of a specic polypropylene (polya-
further ensures a homogenous range of 0.03% - 25%. The high cetal, HT). For high concentrations
solution that is ready for imme- metering accuracy and repeata- of aggressive acids and lyes, an
diate use, making this type of bility of +/- 3% (according to option of PVDF housing is also
pump ideal for applications such API675 standard) oers an available. Sealing material options
as preparation of disinfectant economic advantage for the oper- include AF which is a combina-
solutions. Overall the pump instal- ator as the media can be used in tion of EPDM / Aas for use with
lation is highly cost eective and
its design ensures consistent
quality of the prepared concen-
trate solution.
Metering accuracy
Venturi systems also do not
require electricity for operation
and generate a water ow by
reducing the ow area to create a
negative pressure downstream of
the constriction. This draws
concentrate from a container and
adds this to the water but such
systems are limited by long pipe
lengths, viscous feeds or variations
in mains water pressure that
makes recalibration necessary.
The metering accuracy of hydro- LDT Dosatron for polymer dosing from IBC.

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Sludge with high content of water/polymer lled in the belt lter.
alkaline concentrate; VF (a Viton
material) for use with acids and
oils, and Kalrez for use with highly
concentrated acids.
The exibility of the Dosatron
pump is further enhanced with
options such as external injection
(IE) of the metering liquid into the
water ow, inter alia, which is
recommended for certain corro-
sive concentrates and polymers.
A bypass switch (BP) is also avail-
able to turn the intake system on
or o as desired. For applications
with higher viscous concentrates
(> 400 cps) a special Type V kit is
recommended which handles
viscosity up to 800 cps.
The simple construction of the
Dosatron proportional metering
pump, which comprises only a
few components, makes the
device very easy to maintain and
handle. The unit is supplied with
a wall bracket for straight forward
installation, a suction tube and a
suction lter. Other accessories
such as foot valves, hoses, a back-
ow preventer, water lter, pres-
sure regulator and water hammer
damper are also kept in stock at
LDT for rapid customer delivery.
Applications
With water as the driving power
of the proportional metering
pump, the device is suitable for
nearly all applications in which a
concentrate has to be metered in
a water stream. One typical
example includes polymer dosage
in water treatment applications.
Polymer dosage
Liquid polymers are used in sludge
dewatering and occulation proc-
esses across industrial and munic-
ipal process water, wastewater and
euent treatment applications. For
sludge dewatering processes, poly-
mers are used to chemically
precondition the sludge prior to
dewatering so that the akes settle
faster. This happens regardless of
the downstream drainage tech-
nology utilized; which is typically
lter presses, belt lters, lter bags
or a drying bed. In wastewater
treatment demulsiers and coagu-
lants are used to grow micro
ocks in the wastewater. Floccu-
lants or polymers are then used to
bind the micro ocks into larger
ocks that are easier to remove in
subsequent physical treatment
steps. The use of additional liquid
or powder additives may follow
depending on the application.
Dosing systems in conjunction
with electrically driven metering
pumps are still often used for
polymer dosing applications.
Hydro-powered Dosatron propor-
tional dosing pumps, however,
oer an ecient, compact and
cost-eective alternative. As well
as not requiring electrical supply,
built-in dosing or admixture is
achieved independently of uctu-
ations in the ow or pressure of
the water mains.
The Dosatron polymer unit model
PU1 was specically developed for
polymer dosing applications.
It includes a proportional
metering device type D25RE2
IEPO and a dynamic mixer type
DMIX25.
The dispenser operates in the
usual manner; using water as the
power source and aspirating the
liquid polymer independently.
The polymer, however, does not
pass through the pump but
through an external injection (IE)
device directly into the water
stream. This conguration reduces
any risk of clogging in the mixing
chamber and lowers pump
cleaning overheads. The IE is
further equipped with a self-
cleaning ap valve to prevent
back-ow in the concentrate
container. The dynamic mixer,
which is also equipped with a
hydraulic piston, is coupled with
the proportional metering pump
and improves the mixing result of
the polymer solution. The capacity
range of the polymer unit PU1 is
10 l/h 2.5 m/h at an operating
pressure of 0.3 - 5 bar and a
dosing rate of 0.2% - 2%.
The use of the Dosatron polymer
unit is dependent on the type
and viscosity of the polymer
utilized. It can be installed as a
xed station directly in front of a
reaction tank or storage container
or on a mobile unit. The device
can also be used for the pretreat-
ment of the wastewater from the
Filter cake nearly dry after leaving the belt lter.
Product focus 19
producer before it is added to the
sewage system.
Summary
The hydro-powered proportional
metering pump oers many
advantages. With no electrical
connection needed, the self-
priming unit is easy to install and
exible in its application. The
devices simple construction
ensures reliability, requires little
maintenance and provides easy
operation with simple adjustment
of percentage dosing rate.
The inherent design of the unit
ensures high accuracy and
consistency independent of ow
variations, no over- or under-
dosing of chemicals and that
metering stops when there is no
water ow.
Other applications for a propor-
tional metering pump include
disinfection, cleaning, irrigation
fertilization, pest management,
nutrient supply, hygiene, pH
adjustment, occulation, medica-
tion, drinking water treatment,
odor neutralization and cooling
lubricants.
Contact
LDT Dosiertechnik GmbH
Vierenkamp 8a
D-22453 Hamburg
Germany
Tel. +49 40 5528960-0,
Email: mail@ldt.info
Website: www.ldt.info
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Chemical & abrasive handling

Erosion, corrosion
& chemical attack
s weve reported before, paper mill pumps are put
A under immense strain due to the transfer of viscous
material during the pulping process. This article looks
at how one company was able to extend the life of
pumps at an Italian paper mill with protective coatings.

Belzona is a UK-based manufacturer of Belzona 1321

repair composite materials and protec-
tive coatings for machinery, equipment
and buildings. In 2010, the paper mill
contacted Belzonas representative in
Italy, because the casing and internal
components of a cast iron submersible
sludge pump were suering from prob-
lems related to the eects of a high
solids content, created by a combina-
tion of sludge and slurries. This is a very
common problem in the industry, along
with copious amounts of entrained air
and processing chemicals, which often
result in issues associated with erosion,
corrosion and chemical attack. This
particular paper mills pump had barely
lasted two years and needed a major
overhaul and replacement. The paper
mill was looking for a viable alternative
for their consistently failing pumps.
Belzona 1311
Belzona investigated and eventually
selected a combination of erosion-corro-
sion resistant systems. Initially they rebuilt
the metal loss in the pump using Belzona
1311 (Ceramic R-Metal). This is a ceramic-
lled epoxy-based composite for metal
repair and erosion-corrosion protection. It
is a solvent-free repair composite which
has good chemical resistance and will
bond to all metals and most other rigid
surfaces. It is easy to mix and apply and it
cures at room temperature.
The internal surface of the pump
was then coated with Belzona 1321
(Ceramic S-Metal). This coating oers
signicant erosion-corrosion protection,
whilst simultaneously providing a barrier
against chemicals used in the pulping
processes. It is a ceramic-lled epoxy
coating which has good chemical
resistance and further protects the
pump. It is 100% solids and there is
no shrinkage, expansion or distortion
with this coating. It works well as an
internal coating for centrifugal and
positive displacement pumps.
Belzona 5811 Figure 1. The pump following repair and
Finally, the pump was coated externally application of its initial coatings in 2010.
using Belzona 5811 (Immersion Grade),
This is an epoxy coating designed to
preserve equipment operating under
immersed conditions from corrosion
and chemical damage.
Six years on
Throughout its six-year service life,
the pump has experienced zero
downtime thanks to the Belzona
erosion-corrosion protection, and
the coating is still in excellent condi-
tion. This has extended the pump's
in-service life, saving the company
replacement costs. For more informa- Figure 2. The pump when it was examined
tion visit belzona.com/pumps after six years in service in 2016.

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22 Application
Water & wastewater
Flood prevention
scheme protects
community
he combination of tidal surges and overflow from the
T burn has created flooding problems in North Renfrew
for 300 years. The UK's Renfrewshire Council recently
commissioned work on a 10m flood prevention scheme
which includes an underground pumping station to
protect more than 300 homes and businesses in the area.
The new scheme sees an end to periodic
ooding which has regularly aected the
area and comprises a 3 m high embank-
ment and a new underground pumping
station at the Mill Burn at Fingal Road.
The embankment, which runs westward
for 1 km from Ferry Road, provides a
barrier against direct ooding from the
Clyde. The pumping station, containing
KSB pumps, will ensure that tidal surges
on the Clyde do not cause the Mill Burn
to overow and ood local properties.
Ferrier Pumps Ltd, a KSB distributor in Scot-
land, carried out the mechanical and elec-
trical installation for George Leslie Ltd who
was the main contractor for the project.
This involved planning and collaboration
on the front end design, pump testing,
supply, installation and commissioning of
all the pumps and ancillary equipment.
Testing & development
Before any manufacturing of products or
site work began, a report covering the
testing and development work was
undertaken on a physical hydraulic
Pump canister being lowered into main sump. model of the proposed North Renfrew
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pumping station and associated
discharge chamber arrangement. The
model was constructed to a scale of
1/7th full size and the purpose of the
pumping station model study was to
investigate and conrm the pumping
station hydraulics, the proposed oper-
ating philosophy and the self-cleansing
characteristics of the initially proposed
design. The purpose of the discharge
chamber was to conrm the discharge
bend geometry, optimize energy dissipa-
tion and de-aeration and to assess and
improve outlet losses. Where required,
suitable modications were developed in
each case to optimize each component
of the overall arrangement to ensure
acceptable operation could be main-
tained across the required ow and level
range and with varying combinations
and number of operative KSB pumps.
This report proved invaluable in
preventing expensive problems, at a later
date, further into the project.
Submersible pumps
KSB supplied four variable speed
submersible pumps from their axial
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Four pump canisters being installed into the main sump.
flow Amacan pump range and one
variable speed sump pump of type
Amarex KRT, to the North Renfrew
flood prevention scheme. The company
also supplied the 800 mm diameter
pump discharge canisters which are
currently installed in the storm
pumping station situated on the south
bank of the River Clyde.
The pumping station provides a
capacity of 5.5m3/s to provide standard
Naamloos-2 3
protection against tidal flooding from
the River Clyde and fluvial flooding
from Mill Burn. The pumping stations
maximum flow rate has been specified
to cover a one in 200-year flood event.
KSB Amacan pumps were chosen for
this station as their characteristics
suited the transfer of very high flows
of water at low heads. KSBs pumping
equipment is well-suited for flood
control and the Amacan pumps ensure
flood-prone areas are reliably drained.
Application 23
KSB Amacan submersible pumps are
typically used in land drainage applica-
tions and have a compact design, but
are extremely powerful. The Amacans
slim design makes the submersible
pump ideal for installation into narrow
discharge canisters. Ferrier Pumps Ltd
carried out the mechanical installation
at the Renfrew project site and found
the pumps were easy to install as the
Amacan pumps own weight ensures
self-centering seating of the O-ring
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24 Application
seals in the discharge canisters, a simple
but effective design feature. The
Amacan pumps come with bearing
temperature monitoring, thermal motor
protection and a leakage sensor in the
motor. They also have a low-vibration
hydraulic system and a bellmouth opti-
mised for vortex-free inflow making
them a good choice for the Renfrew
project.
"...the area will have
a high level of
protection against
ooding."
Continuous monitoring
Pump discharge rates have been
defined as 1253l/s (at 7.8 m pumping
head), 1560l/s (at 3.3 m pumping head)
and 1375 l/s (at 6.1 m pumping head)
under normal conditions. The maximum
design flow for the station has been
defined as 5500l/s, which is based on
four pumps working simultaneously and
delivering 1375l/s each. The pumps
selected offer the best efficiency over
the required operating points. The
number and speed of operational
pumps is controlled by PLC system,
based on the water level in the pump
well. Well level is continuously moni-
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tored by an ultrasonic sensor and pump
operation is determined by optimisation
of efficiency. When the River Clyde
levels begins to rise and the water level
reaches the lower limit of the modu-
lating band, the first KSB Amacan pump
will be initiated at minimum speed. If
the inflow is less than the pumped
outflow at minimum speed, the level in
the pumping station will fall and the
pump will be stopped at the defined
cut out level.
If the inow is greater than the minimum
pump discharge rate, the level in the wet
well will continue to rise after the
Amacan pump starts. The sump water
level will now be within the modulating
band and the pump controller will modu-
late the speed of the pump in proportion
to the level until the pump can stabilise
the level at, or around the set-point level.
If the duty Amacan pump operates at full
speed and the level continues to rise, a
second Amacan pump will be initiated
ramping up from base speed until
the inow can be matched with a
level within the modulating band.
When there is a heavy rainfall, all four
Amacan pumps can be called to run
depending on the water levels in the
main sump tank.
Ferrier Pumps also installed a KSB
Amarex KRT submersible solids-handling
centrifugal pump in the main sump
chamber. The pump is specifically
manufactured in abrasion resistant
materials to remove storm water as
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KSB Amacan pump being
lowered into pump canister.
well as handling a relatively high
concentration of solids in the pump
station. This variable speed pump is
used for sump drain down following
cessation of a storm event.
Pump discharge canisters
KSB have also supplied the pump
discharge canisters, which were
designed by KSB at their UK head office
in Leicestershire, and were digitally
prototyped and tested using 3D design
software. The canisters were manufac-
tured by Powerrun Project Management
Ltd of Keighley and each 800 mm
diameter canister was supplied to site
in three off individual double flanged
sections with a combined weight in
excess of 3000 kgs and an overall
assembled length of nearly 10 m.
The top section of each canister incor-
porates a DN800 mm x 180 open-
ended discharge that feeds into the
discharge chamber of the pump station
from where the flow gravitates away
from the Clyde. After fabrication the
canisters were coated with a fusion
bonded epoxy coating.
The flood protection scheme began
operation in March 2016. Renfrewshire
Council hopes that it will give homes
and businesses in the area a high level
of protection against flooding for the
next 200 years and encourage new
businesses to invest in the area.
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26 Application
WORLD PUMPS February 2017

Water & wastewater

Eco solution
increases fish
rehabilitation
he Bull Run Watershed is the primary drinking water
T supply for the City of Portland in the US. It also plays an
important role in supporting the larger aquatic ecosystem
of the Sandy and Lower Columbia rivers where, due
to warm summer water temperatures, some of the fish
species have recently been in significant decline.

to regulate temperature. The idea was

to supply the river with water from the
bottom of the reservoir where the
water would be significantly cooler.
Using temperature readings at several
points down the river, they could
control the river water temperature by
controlling the amount of cold water
that was feeding into the river.

Control valve system

The Bull Run dam in Portland, Oregon.
The Portland Water Bureau (PWB) has
developed the Bull Run Water Supply
Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to
make the necessary changes to the
Citys drinking water operations and
help the aquatic environment improve
for sh stock. Part of the HCP is a water
temperature management plan to
comply with the Clean Water Act, a crit-
ical component in the rehabilitation of
the sh stock.
Water temperature
The problem was that the water
temperature of the Sandy River during
summer months was too warm,
making it difficult for the fish to
spawn. The reason the river got too
warm was because the source of the
river water is pulled from the top of
the reservoir, which is warmer.
The PWB consulted with an engi-
neering firm to come up with a plan
In order to make this happen they
needed a distribution system that would
control the amount of cold water
entering the system by setting a desired
ow rate of cold water. The control
system would need to have the capabili-
ties of measuring ow as well as have
the capacity to ow from low ows to
upwards of 83000 gpm to make this
possible. As the reservoir ll height has
an inlet pressure of 45 psi and the water
is going into the river at atmospheric
pressure, the valve control system also
needed to have the capabilities of with-
standing a 45 to 0 psi pressure drop. This
is when CIMCO, suppliers of waterworks
products, brought in Singer Valve to
design a control valve system that could
handle these stringent requirements.

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36 inch 2SC-PCO-MV-C-AC in the process of being commissioned by Singer and Cimco Sta
The solution from Singer was to supply a
S106-2SC-PCO-MV-C-AC valve and an
MCP-TP Control Panel. This valve has dual
solenoids in the pilot system, which allows
the MCP-TP to control the valve and modu-
late the valve to the required set points
electronically. The valve is equipped with
backow check to ensure the valve closes
in the event of reverse ow. Due to the
maximum ow requirements, a 24 inch
and 36 inch valve were enough to manage
full ow variance. Additional features
oered on the valve were the Single
Rolling Diaphragm (SRD) and Anti-Cav.
Anti-cav technology
The pressure drop of 45 psi to 0 would
denitely cause a valve to cavitate,
creating a lot of noise, vibration and
eventual deterioration to the internals of
the valves. Usually cavitation is avoided
by installing multiple pressure reducing
valves in series, which knocks down the
pressure to controllable levels. Steve Caus-
seaux, sales manager for CIMCO said: The
36 inch Singer valve and sta from the Portland Water Bureau being trained on the electronics MCP
Panel that was supplied.
beauty of Singers anti-cav technology is
that it is contained in the valve itself, so
no additional valves are needed, saving
money, time, and future maintenance.
The Anti-cav is comprised of two heavy
stainless steel sliding cages that maximize
the full ow capacity. The rst cage directs
and contains the cavitation recovery,
allowing it to dissipate harmlessly, while
the second cage allows further control to a
level as low as atmospheric pressure
downstream. The cages are individually
engineered by entering the data into
proprietary software which calculates the
size and placement of the orices on both
inlet and outlet cages. The valve bodies
are specically designed to t a larger cage
allowing higher Cv values (increased ow)
while also allowing for reasonable space
between the anti-cavitation trim and the
body wall. This separation allows for
consistent uniform entry around the cage
area ensuring the vapour bubbles collapse
symmetrically towards the center of the
anti-cavitation cage.
Application 27
The range between a high ow of
83,000gpm and low ows would typically
require a large valve for the high ows and
smaller valves to handle the lower ows as
traditional valves become inecient at low
ows and start to hunt and chatter. To
overcome this challenge, the valves were
equipped with the SRD technology. The
SRD moulded diaphragm provides a
constant surface area no matter the valve
position and avoids injecting small pres-
sure pulses into the piping. By doing this,
the valve eliminates seat chatter at low
ows helping to prevent water loss and
leakage while providing smooth, precisely
controlled ow.
MCP panel
The 24 inch and 36 inch valves were set to
run in parallel and the controls were
consolidated into one panel to save on
space and costs. Singer electronics division
designed and built a control panel to
receive information from both valves and
have the ability to control the valves indi-
vidually. Using a dierential transmitter and
a valve position indicator from each valve
the MCP Panel is able to calculate the indi-
vidual ows through each valve. This
allows the PWB operators to control the
valves to specic ow rates by entering a
setpoint into the panel or remotely via
SCADA. The panel then sends signals to
the opening or closing solenoid valves to
open or close the main valves until they
meet their desired ow rates.
The panel also needed to be able to handle
a main power loss so the addition of a UPS
battery backup was added. To withstand
the outdoor environment, the panel has an
outdoor rated enclosure with a heater and
dehumidier to keep the panel dry. The
customized panel was seamlessly tted into
the existing SCADA system making it simple
for the operators to enter desired ow rates
from a remote location.
The ingenuity in overall concept and
design was matched with Singers ability
to customize a valve to meet some di-
cult parameters, said Andrew Degner,
water treatment operations manager for
the Portland Water Bureau. I am pleased
to say that we have achieved what we
set out to with a fail proof solution that
is easy to manage and maintain.
www.singervalve.com
Author:
Clint Smith & Ryan Spooner, Singer Valve.
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Energy efficiency

Data cooling
centre goes green
he cooling system at one of Google's latest data centres,
T in the Finnish town of Hamina, has gained plaudits from
Greenpeace for its green credentials. High-performance
pumps from a German manufacturer have been installed
to cool the servers in the 9,000 m complex, giving
Google a considerable green advantage.

term goal of using only renewable ener-

gies for its data centres. It is also
making eorts to increase energy e-
ciency in those centres, especially for
the energy-intensive cooling of the
servers.

When it came to choosing where to

locate its newest data centre for Europe
in Hamina, Finland, the decisive factor
was not the electricity price, but rather
the low average temperature of 2C and
the locations proximity to the Finnish
sea. There, server cooling is done using
cold seawater, saving energy in the
process. In addition, the Wilo Crono-
Line-IL pumps play a crucial role in
making a main node on the global data
highway economical and eco-friendly. .

A lot of water, little electricity

Googles data centre in Hamina, Finland.
When Greenpeace said: Google retains
its leading position in building a green
Internet, it may not have realised that
one of the big contributory factors to
this was the pumps installed by German
manufacturer, Wilo. The pumps are from
the CronoLine-IL series, which are not
only green in colour, but also energy
ecient and reliable.
In its latest Clicking Clean report, Green-
peace examines the environmental foot-
print of 300 of the largest data centres
worldwide. Unlike many well-known
internet companies who look only at
the lowest electricity prices when
making decisions, Google chose to set
up its data centre in an eco-friendly
way. The company has set the long-
In 2011, the electricity requirement for
data centres worldwide stood at 684
billion kWh. For comparison, the whole
of Germany consumed around 607
billion kWh in the same year.
According to forecasts, energy
consumption is expected to increase
by 63% by 2020, driven by cloud
computing. Today, 22% of energy
consumption in data centres is attrib-
uted to cooling. Water cooling through
the use of natural resources, as in
Hamina, is therefore a vital strategy for

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Wilos CronoLine-IL pump.
improving efficiency. In addition, effi-
ciency criteria are also set high for the
pumps used to convey cooling water
in the data centre, which is clear from
the specifications of the Wilo Crono-
Line-IL pumps used there.
To be able to supply the required
amount of cooling water, the glanded
pumps are installed horizontally as
in-line pumps in the piping systems.
The pipe sizes of the cooling circuits
range from DN 150 to DN 200. The
impellers of the pumps have been
designed to suit this: they have a
nominal diameter of 320 or 270 mm.
The specic impeller geometry and a
ow-optimized coating play a part in
the high overall eciency. The hydraulic
Wilos CronoLine-IL pumps in action at Googles data centre.
eciency of the Wilo-CronoLine-IL
pumps with connection nominal diam-
eter DN 150 is over 80% and the
hydraulic eciency of that with DN 200
is more than 70%. The motor eciency
is at 94%. As a result, a motor nominal
power of between 30 and 37 kW is
sucient to pump the volumes required
for meeting the cooling loads. Addi-
tional energy savings are achieved by
the consumption-based pump speed
control through a frequency converter.
Reliable and economical
The internet never sleeps. Google
answers around 64,000 search queries
per second; this number alone shows
the high demands that the company
has to place on the availability of its
data centres. Further, important cloud
services for other companies with loca-
tions worldwide also require data to be
available around the clock. Therefore,
besides computing technology, cooling
is also a crucial factor for operational
reliability. Modern server systems are
allowed to operate at temperatures of
up to around 35C. Without cooling,
however, this limit would be exceeded
very quickly, bringing everything to a
standstill.
In order that the pumps convey cooling
water reliably for keeping temperature as
constant as possible, Wilo manufactures
its pump housing and individual compo-
nents from highly durable materials. The
housing and impeller of the CronoLine-IL
series of pumps used in the Google data
centre are made of, for example, wear-re-
sistant cast iron with ake or spheroidal
graphite. To further reduce the pumps
life cycle costs, the pump lantern is
made using a patented design. The
design ensures specic removal of the
relatively large amounts of condensate
The servers at Googles data centre.
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formed on the pump housing when a
pump is conveying a cold medium at
high ambient temperatures. This protects
the pumps from typical corrosion
damage. In addition, highly wear-re-
sistant mechanical seals made of
graphite, silicon carbide, EPDM and stain-
less steel allow for long maintenance
intervals.
Conclusion
Digitalization in companies is
progressing at a rapid rate and, at the
same time, energy resources are
becoming increasingly scarce. This
makes green IT ever more important,
according to Wilo SEs senior vice presi-
dent of its Group Information Manage-
ment, Sven Prochowski. The IT company,
Cisco, shares this opinion and forecasts
a massive growth in internet usage by
2020: In 2015, only 40% of the world
population had access to internet; this
gure will certainly increase to 52% by
2020. At the same time, technological
advancement will enable ever larger
amounts of data to be transported. In
2015, a user transferred on average 9.9
GB of data per month, but this gure is
set to exceed 25 GB by 2020 a 150%
increase.
Dr.-Ing. Markus Beukenberg, chief tech-
nology ocer of Wilo SE, says:
Computer technology is making great
leaps and this is evident to most people
in their daily lives. Behind the scenes,
however, pump technology, which is
perceived as a conventional technology,
is playing a very important role as well
in terms of combining energy eciency
and global networking and Wilo is
contributing to this through its research
and development work.
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Water & wastewater

Chamber filter
presses benefit
from AODD model
hamber filter presses are one of the most effective
C methods for thickening and drying sludge. This article
compares the use of conventional displacement pumps
and AODD pumps for filter press operations and looks at
properties which are specific to the design of each pump.

Sludge disposal
In many industrial processes, substances
occur in aqueous or 'muddy' form,
where the liquid portion must be
removed. This may take place during
production processes, for example in the
ltration of edible oils or yeast solutions,
but more frequently occurs at the end of
a process in waste sludge from various
industries from surface nishes to waste-
water treatment.
Figure.1. Chamber lter press with an Almatec air-operated
double-diaphragm pump.
Since the disposal of such sludges is
calculated based on weight and volume,
thickening and drying is particularly
lucrative. During the process, the sludges
are treated using chemicals and/or phys-
ical processes so that the substances in
it form ake-like solids. After pH- adjust-
ment to neutral or alkaline using milk of
lime, the dewatering process separates
out water for disposal and the remaining
volume of sludge is signicantly reduced.
The simplest technology for this process
involves collection and thickening of the
sludge via gravity. However, it is signi-
cantly more eective to use technical
drying methods via processes such as
centrifuges and evaporators, or more
commonly, chamber lter presses (Fig. 1).
Chamber lter press
The principle of a chamber lter press
includes a number of plastic frames that
are pressed together under high pres-
sure. Inside the frames are hollow cham-
bers, and this is where the press gets its
name, that are surrounded by lter cloth.
When the sludge is fed into the cham-
bers using pressure, a lter cake forms
inside the chambers and the ltrate
ows through the lter cloths into
drainage channels. When all the cham-
bers are completely lled, the sludge
feed stops. The press can now be
opened and the solid lter cake
removed. After closing, the press is ready
for a new pressing process.
To ll these presses, lter material and
pressure is required. The pressure, which
is usually between 8 and 15 bar at its
peak, should be even in order not to
destroy the ocs during feeding. The
ocs should also have enough free space
in the feed area. In addition to the
constantly increasing counter-pressure
that occurs until the end of the pressing,
a further constraint is the eventuality
that an empty-running sludge tank can
lead to dry running of the pump being
used to generate pressure.
Displacement pumps
To build pressure, dierent variations of
displacement pumps are frequently used,
including piston diaphragm pumps,
which are applied most frequently for
large presses. In these large and costly
units, one or two diaphragms are hydrau-
lically actuated and feed the sludge into

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the press via valves. These pumps incur

large overhead costs even for small
plants, such as an air pressure vessel to
equalize the feed rate and a maximum
pressure monitor or bypass. Eccentric
screw pumps are also used, either as self-
regulating pumps (with motors that are
electronically controlled via a frequency
converter) or as cyclical systems (where
an air pressure vessel is charged by the
pump). This valve-free procedure is advan-
tageous when processing large sludge
quantities and when long bers prevent
the use of valves. However, there are
constraints in small- and medium-sized
plants due to their sensitivity to abrasion
and dry running. The space required to
use this system is also considerable.
Figure 2. Functional principle of an air-operated double diaphragm pump with a feed pressure of 15
This list of pumps also includes hose-dia- bar (Almatec AHD series).
phragm piston pumps, which function in
a similar way to piston diaphragm
pumps but with crimped hoses rather The rst variant uses one of the boosters, pulsates strongly, which can
than diaphragms, and piston pumps. The diaphragms on a standard pump to inuence the ow of the product.
latter piston pumps typically generate generate additional pressure. The force Boosters also seem to reach their limits
strong pulsation and require constant of this diaphragm, which is in maintaining pressure, i.e. during
lubrication. Both of these pumps are surrounded only by air and repressing. This is because the devices
characterized by their simple electrical compressed air, is transferred to the used are almost always too small.
operation, with fairly high installation feed diaphragm via the internal These devices yield the required end
and maintenance costs. diaphragm connection, enabling the pressure, but may require a longer
feed diaphragm to work with double lling time.
the pressure. This method is rarely
AODD pumps used anymore, as it leads to high The third variant is a pump with
By comparison, it is much easier to use pulsation, low feed rates and high air internal pressure conversion. Fig. 2
an air-operated double-diaphragm requirements. It also commands high shows how this technical solution
(AODD) pump; they are resistant to dry
running, virtually maintenance-free, self-
priming, self-regulating and highly
compact. Without the control or interven-
"AODD pumps are resistant to dry-running,
tion of an operator or electronic system, virtually maintenance-free, self-priming,
the counter-pressure of the chamber lter
press regulates the feed rate automati- self-regulating and highly compact."
cally. The feed rate decreases continuously
as counter-pressure increases simultane-
ously to the degree of lling. This eect service costs as the diaphragm on the applies compressed air to a dierential
can be used to detect when the chamber air side is very sensitive and breaks piston along with the diaphragms. The
lter press is full. When this is reached, quickly. increased surface area, which is typi-
the pump virtually stops zero feed rate cally twice as large or more, causes
or only occasionally makes a delivery Another variant is to operate a the compressed air to generate a
stroke. In addition, the use of compressed standard pump with an air pressure corresponding amount of increased
air as drive power to move the amplier, which drives the pump with force. This converted force acts on the
diaphragms, results in a highly ecient, increased air pressure. This process is feed diaphragms with increased
regular and gentle cyclic drive that allows limited by the fact that a standard (double) pressure. The entire construc-
the medium to be fed smoothly. pump is used most of the times. tion is designed for the high strain
Although these pumps are equipped caused by the maximum amount of
with external reinforcements, from a pressure, as well as the strain caused
Increasing pressure technical perspective the standard by the typically abrasive sludge. For
A standard AODD pump is typically pumps in question are designed and this reason, the pump housing is built
limited to the pressure of the supplied air, built for signicantly lower pressures from materials such as stainless steel
which is often insucient to ll the press. and as a result only have limited resist- or polyethylene (PE-UHMW). This
For this reason, it is often necessary to ance to the increased strain. Addition- tough material is a decisive factor in
increase the pressure, for which there are ally, the increased pressure resulting the durability of the pump (see Fig 3.
three very dierent technical solutions: from these air pressure ampliers, or abrasion test).

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Figure 3. Wear factors based on the sand-slurry process.
PE UHMW = 1 (top); PP = 7 (middle); steel = 1.6 (bottom)
Using compressed air to power a pump is
very eective thanks to constructive
measures. The pump operates with
minimal dead space, i.e. the space inside
the pump that must be lled without
serving the actual feed process. As a
result, the pump always has sucient
power reserves to handle large volumes
of wastewater.
Figure 4. High pressure air-operated double-
diaphragm pumps in the series, with internal pressure
conversion (Almatec AHD series), as well as the variant
for use with an external booster (Almatec AHS series).
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New generation
With the introduction of a new genera-
tion of high-pressure AODD pumps,
there is now an additional variant that
combines the highly robust housing of
the pressure-converting pump with an
air section where no conversion takes
place (Fig. 4). This version is therefore
suitable for all applications under heavy
load conditions, ranging from low-feed
"When selecting pumps for lter press
operations, AODD pumps are the preferred
solution, incorporating a number of
characteristic advantages."
pressures to high-pressure applications
of up to 15 bar (218 psig). If the user
operates a pump at such high air pres-
sure, whether it is from an external
booster or directly from the compressor,
they can do so secure in the knowl-
edge that the pump is structurally
designed for such pressure ranges and
need not be held together by external
reinforcements.
On these new pumps, the diaphragms are
equipped with specially developed heavy-
duty diaphragms with an integrated metal
core providing a long service life and the
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ability to handle heavy loads. The vulcan-
ized core of the diaphragm supports
extremely thick layers of elastomer. To
transfer the suction forces, the core is also
reinforced with a special textile that is
barely exible in any direction.
In addition, these pumps can be
combined with the optional use of a
sensor that responds to the movements
of the diaphragm and allows the cycle to
be easily monitored. Accordingly, the slow
stroke frequency that accompanies a full
press, rarely triggers a signal. If a PLC is
used to programme a time window
within which a stroke should take place, a
full chamber lter press is indicated by
the fact that these rare signals no longer
occur within this time window.
The compressed air can be switched o
and a signal can be set for the operator
to empty the press. This method func-
tions purely by physical means and is
independent of sensitive pressure
gauges and contaminating sensors in
the wastewater current.
In conclusion, when selecting pumps for
lter press operations, AODD pumps are
the preferred solution, incorporating a
number of characteristic advantages.
Conventional displacement pumps with
electric drive and control elements do
not have these properties which are
specic to the design of the pumps,
including run dry capability, good
controllability and a gasket-less mechan-
ical design, to mention but a few.
Contact
Peter Schten
Product manager
Almatec Maschinenbau GmbH
Kamp-Lintfort
Germany.
Tel: +49 2842 961-0.
Email: Peter.Schueten@psgdover.com
Website: www.almatec.de
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Water & wastewater

New compressor
design offers
significant savings
ir compressors are at the heart of many industries and
A can be found in factories and industrial plants, food-
processing facilities and water treatment centres. This
article looks at a new design which has brought energy
savings of more than 20% for one UK water company.

Compressor, which he believed could

increase eciency by around 20%;
usually industries try to optimize e-
ciency by between 1% and 2%, but
20% had never been achieved before.
Steve's solution has seen him dubbed
'the new James Dyson' by the UK's
Carbon Trust.

How it works
The Blade Compressor is best imagined
as a piston and cylinder, but with the
cylinder wrapped around. With a tradi-
tional piston and cylinder machine, as
the piston drops down in the cylinder, it
draws in air above it and, as it goes up
again, it compresses air in front of it.

In the Lontra Blade Compressor, as the

Steve Lindsey with the Blade Compressor.
We unknowingly come across compres-
sors in almost every aspect of our lives.
They are the force that blows cornakes
into their packaging and the whooshing
sound of train doors opening. Often
described as the fth utility, compressors
make up around 10% of Europes indus-
trial electricity use. Despite occupying a
global market of 25bn, there hadnt
been a new design within the
compressor market for more than 80
years until Lontra, based near Coventry
in the UK, introduced the Blade
Compressor to the market.
Designed by Lontra, the company's
founder and CEO, Steve Lindsey, has
spent 10 years testing the Blade
piston or blade rotates, it draws in air
behind it in the same way as the piston
dropping down in the cylinder.
As it gets back to the starting point, it
has induced a complete volume
behind it. Yet unlike the traditional
piston and cylinder that has to stop
and change direction, the blade passes
through the disc with volume that was
trapped behind the piston, which is
now in front.

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This creates a continuous cycle of

inducing air behind and compressing air
in front, a new geometry that makes the
Lontra Blade Compressor far quieter and
smoother and so, more ecient.

Severn Trent Water

As one of the UKs largest water and
wastewater service companies, Severn
Trent Water is well-known for its devel-
opment and application of technology
and systems used to treat water. As part
of Severn Trent Waters wastewater
treatment process, compressors are
used to inject air into wastewater which
consumes vast amounts of electricity.
Around 9 million a year is spent on
electricity to run 300 blowers at the
treatment work. Unsurprisingly, Severn
Trent Water had been searching for a
solution to reduce energy usage and
improve operational eciency.

Recognising the potential of Lontras

technology, Severn Trent Water invested
in supporting the ongoing research and
development of the Blade Compressor.
Working together, and with support from
the Carbon Trust, Severn Trent Water and
Lontra spent a year studying how the
technology could be best implemented
across Severn Trents estate.

The Carbon Trust

The Carbon Trust is dedicated to
supporting businesses build a sustain-
able future by cutting carbon emissions,
increasing energy eciency and
bringing low carbon technology to The Blade Compressor being used at Severn Trent facility.

Severn Trent Water undertook a site trial

over a period of seven months and
"Usually industries try to optimize eciency performed exhaustive tests to nd out
whether the Blade Compressor could
by between 1% and 2%, but 20% had deliver substantial energy savings to

never been achieved before." businesses.

The relationship strengthened

market more quickly. In the last 15
years, the Carbon Trust has worked with
organisations to reduce CO2e emissions
by 60 million tonnes and save more
than 5.5 billion.
As pressures increase for businesses to
meet new regulations, such as the Energy
Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) regu-
lations, the Carbon Trust has backed the
research and development of new tech-
nologies that will maximise energy saving
opportunities and cost cutting. The
Carbon Trust realised the potential in the
Blade Compressor and invested 390,000
to accelerate its development. The
funding supported the development of
the technology for the trial at Severn
Trent Waters Worcester site.
Severn Trent Water trial
Having followed the development of
Lontras technology in its early stages,
throughout the trial period as Severn
Trent Water contributed to the specica-
tion of the Blade Compressor for waste
water aeration and provided the test site
at Worcester for a pre-production
prototype.
Seven Trent Water worked for over a year
with Lontra on a study evaluating its
entire wastewater estate. This allowed
Lontra to take a fresh look at the chal-
lenges faced in wastewater treatment
and to design a solution specically opti-

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Some of the technology being used for new compressor designs at Lontras Technology Centre.
mized to the needs of the industry as
whole.
To ensure the testing was completely fair
the conventional blower was replaced
just six months before the trial
commenced to ensure that the Blade
Compressor didnt have an unfair advan-
tage by being tested against an ageing
or worn alternative. The technology was
installed and ran full time as a duty
blower without issues, proving its core
reliability and performance.
The results, showing over 21% energy
eciency savings, were so encouraging
that Severn Trent agreed to part-fund a
"...savings of an estimated 1.8 million
each year and the reduced carbon
output, bring signicant advantages."
full scale trial alongside the Carbon
Trust. A full-scale trial was then rolled
out to put the design to the test in a
live production environment. Tested
against both new and re-furbished
machines, only the existing blower and
motor were replaced making the trial as
representative as possible. The results
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accurately captured the gains of the
blower system proving the Blade
Compressors high performance and
reliability.
The results
The energy saving results gave Severn
Trent Water the assurance of the relia-
bility and eciency of Lontras tech-
nology and Severn Trent Waters decision
to extend the use of the Blade
Compressor across more of its waste
treatment works shows its commitment.
Manufacture of machines incorporating
the Blade Compressor technology by
Lontras partner, Sulzer, has now begun,
with production compressors being
shipped to Severn Trent Water and their
equivalents across Europe.
The benets to Severn Trent Water, the
projected savings of an estimated 1.8
million each year, and the reduced
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carbon output, bring signicant advan-
tages for the business. As energy
demands escalate across all aspects of
our global society, technology break-
throughs such as the new form of air
compressor oered by Lontra, which can
be adopted quickly, have the potential
to provide industries with a triple win,
because they are oil free, energy ecient
and reliable.
The development of Lontras Blade
Compressor and backing from Carbon
Trust has provided the opportunity for
Lontra to oer large industrial organisa-
tions signicant long-term savings and
the corresponding reductions in CO2
emissions. Lontras Blade Compressor
technology is likely to have a major
impact, saving energy across a wide
range of industries and the company says
that water treatment is just the start.
Contact
Jenny Rohde
Lontra
Unit 7, Folly Lane
Napton on the Hill
CV47 8NZ
Tel. +44 (0) 1926 811102
Email: info@lontra.co.uk
Website: www.lontra.co.uk
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Chemical & abrasive handling

Reducing effects
of corrosion and
erosion
ndustrial processes across the world need pumps
I to operate efficiently. The latest pump designs and
coating technologies offer significant improvements
and, by lessening the effects of corrosion and erosion,
productivity is enhanced and running costs reduced.

Continued research into the processes
that degrade pump performance is
currently being matched by the devel-
opment of better application tech-
niques for protective coatings. By
gaining a better understanding of both
the pumping process and the factors
that aect it, end users can make signif-
icant improvements in their mainte-
nance strategies.
Affected applications
Almost every industrial process involving
liquids will include a pump at some
point. From deep sea oil and gas to DNA
sequencing, pumps are required to
perform a vast range of tasks. However,
no matter what the design or the size of
the pump, central to every application is
reliability and eciency. Minimizing
down time and running costs is essential
within modern industry.
For those working with large industrial
pumps, often operating in harsh environ-
mental conditions, maintaining pump
performance in the face of a continuous
threat from corrosion and erosion can be
a particular challenge. With increased
knowledge of these processes and the
techniques used to tackle them, it is
possible to implement a more cost eec-
tive pump refurbishment programme.

Corrosion
Corrosion is commonly dened as a
chemical reaction between the compo-
nent surface and the reacting uid
passing through a pump. In general a
distinction is drawn between general or
uniform corrosion and localized corrosion
like pitting and crevice corrosion. Non-
stainless materials suer mainly from
uniform corrosion whereas metals
forming oxide layers that adhere to and
Coating technologies oer improved performance and durability.

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passivate the surface are prone to local-
ized corrosion.
Flow accelerated corrosion
Flow accelerated corrosion (FAC)
describes the removal of the protective
oxide layer on a metal. The speed of this
process is aected by the oxygen
content, the ow velocity and, to some
"Pumps that are used to transfer
uids containing abrasive substance can
experience signicant levels of erosion."
extent, the chloride content. The forma-
tion of a calcareous layer due to high
carbonate hardness of the water reduces
or even prevents FAC.
The inuence of oxygen can be seen in
the following example: Water with an
oxygen content of less than 20 ppb
(parts per billion) and a ow velocity
around 15 m/s will typically see a corro-
sion rate around 0.01 mm/year.
However, increased oxygen content can
see the corrosion rate rise to several
mm/year, which will present a signi-
cant challenge to the process.
Fortunately FAC only poses a real issue
for low carbon steels and cast iron.
Increasing the chromium content or
using stainless steel will largely eliminate
the vulnerability to ow accelerated
corrosion.
Erosion
Pumps that are used to transfer uids
containing abrasive substances, such as
sand, can experience signicant levels of
In situations where erosion-corrosion is evident, specialised coatings may be the best solution.
erosion, especially in areas with high
ow velocities. This can be seen in the
oil and gas industry where injection
pumps are employed to force water
back into the oil eld and thus maintain
the pressure which is needed to lift the
oil to the surface. The entrained sand
particles act as an abrasive and the high
working pressures only serve to
compound the issue.
From a pure design standpoint, pump
manufacturers in this eld eectively
have two options to minimize the
erosion:
Reduce the ow velocities in every
part of the pump
or
Design the pump in such a way that
the ow velocities through the close-
running clearances are low.
However, in most cases the specications
required for the application will prevent
either of these solutions from being imple-
mented. Coatings with high erosion resist-
ance in selected areas of the pump are a
proven solution in these applications.
Erosion-Corrosion
In operating conditions where both
erosion and corrosion are present, the
degradation mechanism can become very
complex and depends on the type of
substrate and the uid chemistry. Corro-
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sion may create oxide layers with low
adherence to the substrate which is prone
to erosion, or erosion may damage the
passive layer, leading to an activation of
the surface which accelerates corrosion. In
this case surface protection regimes are
often the best and sole option.
Cavitation
Most commonly seen on the pump
impeller, cavitation is caused by a pres-
sure dierence, either on the pump
body or the impeller. A sudden pressure
drop in the uid causes the liquid to
ash to vapour when the local pressure
falls below the saturation pressure for
the uid being pumped. Any vapour
bubbles formed by the pressure drop are
swept along the impeller vanes by the
ow of the uid. When the bubbles
enter a region where the local pressure
is greater than saturation pressure, the
vapour bubbles abruptly collapse,
creating a shockwave that, over time,
can cause signicant damage to the
impeller and/or pump housing.
In most cases it is better to prevent cavi-
tation rather than trying to reduce the
eects on the pumping equipment. This
is normally achieved by one of the three
actions:
Increase the suction head
Lower the uid temperature
Decrease the Net Positive Suction
Head Required (NPSHR)
For situations where cavitation is
unavoidable or the pumping system
suers from internal recirculation or
excessive turbulence, it may be neces-
sary to review the pump design or mini-
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Cavitation damage should be prevented by changing the pumping
system characteristics.
mize the potential for damage using a
bespoke coating system.
Appropriate material selection
For pump manufacturers, the key is to
mitigate the corrosion problems by
using the most appropriate base material
in the construction of the pump. For
applications where the use of carbon
steel or cast iron is preferred due to cost
reasons, the corrosion rate can be esti-
mated very accurately. Based on the
mutually accepted corrosion rate per
year, the service life of the pump can be
anticipated and factored into the mainte-
nance costs of the application.
If the expected corrosion rate is not
acceptable the pump materials have to
be upgraded to stainless steel, which
leads to higher costs. In cases where this
cost increase is prohibitive, the alterna-
tive is to use advanced coatings that can
be tailored to suit each application.
If stainless steel is selected for an appli-
cation, the expected service life is much
longer, in some cases innite. However,
this is only true as long as the appro-
priate stainless steel grade has been
chosen for the specic application and it
has been produced carefully and is used
within the agreed uid specications.
Special care is required as soon as parti-
cles are introduced into the uid.
In this case, even stainless steel
becomes susceptible to corrosion due
to the passive layer being damaged and
the base material becoming activated,
which then starts to corrode. Normally
the passive layer can be re-established,
but if the chloride content is too high
or the pH level is too low, the material
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Where cavitation is unavoidable, a bespoke coating system should be used.
may remain in an active state and the
corrosion continues. Another frequent
cause of corrosion in stainless steel
pumps are stagnant conditions caused
by process interruptions or intermittent
operation.
A further threat for stainless steel is chlo-
rine, which is used to combat biological
growth in the pump or the connected
pipelines. Low level concentrations,
around 2 ppm, will have little impact on
stainless steel, but it is important to
understand how and where the chlorine
is introduced into the water ow, to
avoid spot concentrations that will
damage the protective layer.
Unexpected corrosion can easily negate
the anticipated improvement in dura-
bility of stainless steel compared to the
much cheaper carbon steel variant.
Protective coatings
It is important to determine if the applica-
tion of coatings will actually improve the
performance and the service life of the
pump in the rst instance and if the costs
are really lower than a materials upgrade.
In most cases pump manufacturers aim
to meet the requirements of a process by
using the most appropriate materials for
the application and use coatings only as
back-up solution.
Polymeric coatings like Fusion Bonded
Epoxy can be applied to pump compo-
nents using a uidized bed or electro-
static coating. They provide a good level
of corrosion protection as long as the
coating isnt damaged. As a polymer
coating it is limited to low ow condi-
tions and normally used in clean water
applications where it may also improve
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the hydraulic performance by
smoothening the pump surfaces.
However, coatings which are appropriate
for pipelines may not be suitable for
pump applications where the ow veloci-
ties are much higher, narrow passages
concentrate the ow and moving parts
can be dicult to protect. Again, some
methods, such as galvanic protection,
commonly used in pipework, are largely
unsuitable for pumps.
In these cases coatings are applied to
specic areas where increased ow rates
are expected or at points where impact
damage is expected, such as 90 degree
bends. A hard layer is usually applied
using a spray coating method such as Air
Plasma Spraying (APS), or High Velocity
Oxygen Fuel (HVOF). The choice will
depend on the required coating thickness
and composition.
Carbide coatings, which are deposited by
using a high velocity oxy-ame, are
extremely wear-resistant. Tungsten
carbides in combination with cobalt,
nickel or cobalt-chrome matrices are used
preferably. Thanks to improvements in the
powder and the thermal spray processes,
the materials combine high wear-resist-
ance and toughness with good corrosion
resistance. Thermal spray coatings can be
applied to most substrates, but it is a
line-of-sight process that makes the
coating of complex shaped components,
such as impellers, dicult.
CVD processes which are used for
complex components that are dicult to
coat with thermal spray create very hard
surface layers, but are conducted at
temperatures in excess of 850C. These
high temperatures limit the selection of
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possible substrates, because structural

changes and partial deformations can
take place during the cooling stage.

Not all coatings are the same

The improvements in performance and
durability aorded by coating systems
have given rise to a large number of
businesses oering a coating service. The
raw materials and the basic equipment
can be acquired relatively easily and used
to apply coatings to a range of
equipment.

However, the quality of an HVOF coating,

for example, depends predominately on
the spraying parameters, such as the
material temperature, application velocity,
application rate and the quality of the
equipment used. Coatings such as these
take time to apply correctly, which will
inevitably impact on the nal cost of the
refurbishment. However, increasing the
deposition rate will increase the stresses
within the coating and over time this can
cause the coating to degrade and fail
prematurely.

The procedures and settings used by

companies such as Sulzer and its coating
suppliers have been developed over
many years; applying extensive knowl-
edge and experience to the process is
the only way to improve it. The nal
procedure for each coating is closely
guarded, proprietary information
ensuring that every client will receive the
same quality of coating across the world.
To illustrate the importance of these
procedures, especially in pump applica-
tions, consider the process of installing
and removing an impeller. In many
situations, the impeller is heated to
allow it to be installed or removed
from the drive shaft. This shrink-t
procedure can cause inappropriate
coatings to be damaged during a
routine maintenance operation. Sulzer
has ensured that its coating technolo-
gies can withstand this thermal shock
and continue to deliver long-lasting
corrosion protection.
Maintaining legacy equipment
Modern coating technology can be
applied to legacy equipment as part of
a refurbishment program that will
extend the service life of a pump.
Implementing a new coating as part of
a refurbishment project can signicantly
Working closely with experienced materials' engineers enables the end user to achieve the most
appropriate solution.
improve the performance and reliability
of existing equipment.
Ultimately, the key to a successful corro-
sion prevention scheme is to fully under-
stand the application and to use all the
available information to determine the
most appropriate action. For those looking
to refurbish an existing asset there are a
number of improvements that can extend
ervice life and enhance pump perform-
ance. If a new pump design is required,
there is a chance to establish the most
appropriate base material and the best
coating system for extended durability.
The future
As coating technologies continue to
advance so end users will be able to
select bespoke coatings that can be
applied during the manufacturing
process. However, even with the most
advanced coating, there is a need to
develop an application process that can
be used to apply the coating to the
complex internal surfaces of a cast
impeller and volutes. As such, this
remains the holy grail of pump design
and once this challenge is overcome, the
reliability and service life of industrial
pumps will be further improved.
Costs of ownership can be minimized
through the appropriate use of base
materials, protective coatings and the
implementation of better pump design
to deliver a comprehensive and cost
eective pump solution.
Authors:
Pharic Smith
Head of engineering, parts, retrots &
nuclear for EMEA region at Sulzer UK.
Thomas Kraenzler
Head global core technology materials
for Sulzer Pumps.
Contact: Tel. (+1) 281 417 7110
Email: RES_AME_Marketing@sulzer.com
Website: www.sulzer.com

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42 Pump FAQs
Pump FAQs
Q. What is water hammer,
and what is its impact on a
pumping system?
A. Water hammer, or hydraulic
shock, is a condition that exists
when a column of uid
changes velocity quickly in a
piping system. There are
several causes of water
hammer such as a pump start
or stop or a rapid change of
valve position. The velocity
change results in a pressure
wave that is above and below
the normal pressure in the
piping system. These pressure
waves are called surge pres-
sures or water hammer (when
water is the uid),
and their magnitude can be
sucient to burst or collapse
piping, valves, machinery
casings and other devices.
The pressure waves magnitude
can be calculated with reason-
able precision if the user
knows the conguration of the
piping, the size of the pipes,
the materials of the piping, the
properties of the uid, and
how quickly the pump and/or
uid accelerates or decelerates.
When the column of uid in
the piping is either started or
stopped, the energy of the
system is transformed from
velocity energy to head or
pressure energy. Because the
uid and piping material are
not completely incompressible,
they will absorb a fraction
of the energy.
Cast iron, for example, is a
rather brittle material and is
more susceptible to failure
from sudden impact of a
pressure wave that is well
above its normal internal
pressure and traveling at the
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speed of sound. Other mate-
rials that are more ductile
may absorb the shock waves
without cracking but still risk
permanent deformation and
ultimate failure. The pump is
not the only component that
is aected by this phenom-
enon; valves, sprinkler heads
and pipe ttings are also at
risk of catastrophic damage.
Water hammer can adversely
aect pipe hangers and
pump foundations. Polyvinyl
chloride (PVC) pipe and
ttings are very susceptible
to damage from water
hammer.
Surge analysis is necessary
because surge will occur in
every pumping system. Water
has mass. One cubic meter of
water at 15 C weighs 1,000 kg.
Moving water has momentum,
which is directly related to
both the mass and the velocity
of the liquid. The faster the
liquid is owing, the greater its
momentum. The greater the
momentum, the more damage
water hammer can cause if the
liquid is suddenly stopped.
Surge pressure will be maxi-
mized when the uid is
stopped in less time than it
takes for a pressure wave to
travel from the equipment that
stopped the ow to the other
end of the piping system and
back.
Water hammer can be under-
stood through proper surge
analysis and controlled through
proper valve closure rates (with
slow-closing valves), controlled
starting and stopping of
pumps, the addition of
diaphragm tanks to absorb the
pressure surge, and relief valves
to release the pressure.
For more information on water
hammer, refer to
ANSI/HI 9.6.6 Pump Piping for
Rotodynamic Pumps.
Q. What are some impor-
tant environmental and
operational considerations
for wastewater pumps?
A. Some important considera-
tions are altitude, temperature
of the liquid and speed of
operations.
Altitude: The site evaluation for
the pump installation
can aect pump operation. In
general, the higher the installa-
tions elevation, the less abso-
lute suction pressure available
for the pump. For pumping
systems with atmospheric
suction pressure, the net posi-
tive suction head available
(NPSHA) calculation should be
corrected for the atmospheric
pressure at the jobsite. Altitude
will also aect the selection of
the pump driver because the
less dense air provides less
cooling of the driver.
Temperature: The temperature
of the pumped liquid must be
within the design limits of the
pump components.
Additionally, as temperature
increases, the vapor pressure of
the liquid increases,
which results in less NPSHA.
When NPSHA is not sucient,
the pump will cavitate, which
can cause reduced perform-
ance, physical damage to the
pump components and
increased vibration.
The selection of the pump
must include appropriate
consideration of the
uid temperature and its phys-
ical properties at temperature.
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Speed: Solids-handling rotody-
namic pumps are normally
operated at speeds of 1,800
revolutions per minute (rpm)
and below to reduce wear and
susceptibility to clogging. The
net positive suction head
required (NPSHR) of the pump
is approximately proportional
to the square of speed change.
Pump units can be operated
with constant speed or vari-
able speed drivers. Adjusting
the speed of the pump driver
will change the pumps opera-
tional characteristics. Using a
variable speed drive system
can provide pump adjustment
on a frequent basis. Variable
speed operations can maxi-
mize reliability and system e-
ciency under certain system
conditions such as when fric-
tion head is a major compo-
nent of the system head, when
ow pacing is required and the
inuent ow to the pump
varies signicantly so that
system eciency is maximized.
When variable frequency drives
(VFDs) are used, the driver
must be rated for use.
For more information on water
and wastewater pump selec-
tion recommendations, refer to
HIs Guidebook Wastewater
Treatment Plant Pumps: Guide-
lines for Selection, Application,
and Operation.
Q. How does the elevation
from the suction gauge
affect the NPSHA calcula-
tion?
A. The NPSHA is the total
suction head available over
the vapor pressure of the
liquid pumped corrected to
the centerline of the
impeller (or impeller inlet
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NPSHA calculation. The from cavitation where a 3%

vane tip datum if vertically
mounted) as shown in
Figure 9.6.1.1a and meas-
ured at the inlet to the
pump. An NPSH margin,
calculated using Equation 1,
may be required for several
reasons related to pump
performance and service life.
The margin can underline
the uncertainties of what
the NPSHA will be over the
range of operation, and it
can provide for adequate
pump reliability and
performance.
When calculating NPSHA
based on suction pressure
gauge measurements, note
that the elevation difference
between the gauge and the
datum must be added to
the NPSHA. If the gauge
elevation is above the
datum, it will increase the
opposite is true if the gauge head loss is observed at a
elevation is below the constant ow rate as NPSHA
datum. NPSH3 is an is reduced. For more informa-
accepted industry practice tion on NPSH, refer to ANSI/HI
point dening a condition of 9.6.1 Rotodynamic Pumps
head breakdown resulting Guideline for NPSH Margin.
= atmospheric pressure head, in m
= total suction head = , in m
= suction gauge head, in m
= suction velocity head, in m
= elevation from the suction gauge centerline to datum
(see Figure 9.6.1.1a), in m
= liquid vapor pressure head (taken at the highest sustained
operating temperature), in m

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AT FMMI, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 63, AT - 1045 Wien, Austria Tel: + 43 5 90 900

3468, Fax: + 43 1 505 10 20, Eml: schicker@fmmi.at GB
British Pump Manufacturers Association - BPMA, The National Metalforming Centre,
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CZ 50 Lutin, Czech Republic Tel: + 420 585 652 423, Fax: +420 585 652 400, Eml:
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