SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT
Pits, T e Pit, or East and West Chapin Lake. Two years later, the Oliver Iron
Mining Company donated it to Dickinson County, describing it as a “relic for sightseers to visit,” and in 1982-83 the Historical Foundation enclosed it in a new building. It’s now the centrepiece of a museum, which also includes a large display of underground mining equipment.
And now… Fast forward to the present day and there are a dizzying array of pump products available. One of the latest entrants into the submersible market is the Maxi H-Lite from Grindex. Founded in 1940 near Stockholm, Sweden, the company has specialised in electrical submersible pumps since 1960. Featuring a 25 kW motor, the new launch sits between the fi rm’s Matador (18 kW) and Maxi (37kW). T e design features an open impeller made of either Hard Iron or stainless steel. An adjustment sleeve is used to change impeller-suction-cover-clearance after wear, a feature also being incorporated into the fi rm’s 37kW model. Sulzer has also launched another pump into the submersible market. Dubbed the XRCP 800 PA, it is designed to be lowered along a guide tube and connected to the pipeline by an automatic coupling system using a single guide rail. Power is up to 22kW from three-phase, four-pole, 50Hz motors. Safe up to 40°C, it features a thermo-control system (TCS) to provide warnings and an auto switch-off . German fi rm Feluwa has just completed the installation of a large displacement pump to a Chinese company to shift a mixture of coal slurry with oil, benzene and toluene with a maximum particle size of 6mm. T e new machine, a double hose-diaphragm pump type
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TGK 500 – 3 DS 350 DFT uses Feluwa’s hermetically sealed Multisafe technology, which was developed originally in 2002 specifi cally for abrasive and toxic media. It can move a maximum of
312 m³/h at up to 86 bar, and a second unit is on order.
Wastewater sampler system created In peristaltics news, Verderfl ex has partnered up with Smart Storm to create a wastewater sampler system. T e R3DC OEM was chosen as it can lift up to 7m without a secondary pump. Dr John Duff y, Smart Storm’s managing director says, “We believe that the Verderfl ex pump along with the advanced USI controller made this Hydrocell range of waste water samplers the most advanced on the market.” Finally, in other business news Atlas Copco has made good its promise to acquire Italian company pump maker Varisco for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1932, the Padua-based company will now become part of Atlas Copco’s Portable Energy division in the Construction Technique business area, although the Varisco name will survive. ●
a digital tool based on Augmented Reality. The tool equips users with X-ray vision of the fi rm's pump products
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The earliest pumps were really just large ‘village pumps’ with timber or cast iron delivery pipes
Image courtesy of Barnsley Council
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