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Under Pressure - Boosting pumps to achieve higher pressure
Description: In an emergency pumping application, it is unlikely that the best-suited equipment will be in place for the situation. It is sometimes necessary to determine how to make available equipment meet the ...
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Onsite Water Treatment at Oil Field
Description: Onsite water treatment is a growing market, especially in the oil industry. The reasons are increased storage costs, trucking fees and disposal rates for the contaminated water. The process of coring ...
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Soaring to New Heights
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Wash systems manufacturer Whiting Systems needed a metering pump to meet the demands of the mining and oil markets, and found its solution in Neptune's 7000 Series Mechanical Diaphragm Metering Pump. ...
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Abrasive Qualities
Description: It's a fact of manufacturing: abrasive liquids and compounds need to play a role in the creation of some of the world's most recognizable products. These products only get made, however, if the ...
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High-Pressure Pumps in Paint & Coatings Operations
Description: There's no question that the Paint & Coatings industry continues to evolve. A key part of this evolution is the wide array of next-generation feedstocks that are making modern-day paint and coatings a ...
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ATEX: The Symbol of Safety in Dangerous-Chemicals Handling
Description: Chemical plants have a strong responsibility to take every necessary precaution to protect their employees, as well as the surrounding communities. Over the past half-century, legislation has been put ...
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Energy-Saving Pumps in Paint & Coatings Applications
From: BlackmerDescription: The demands on paint and coatings manufacturers to optimize energy efficiency without compromising the quality of their products are critical to success. These demands can only be met if the pumping ...
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Finding Energy Savings in Your Product Flow
From: BlackmerDescription: The demands placed on manufacturers are strict and diverse: reliably produce the products that consumers demand while at the same time doing so in the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly ...
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Maximizing Speed to Market for Oil & Pumps
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: It can be ironic that a natural resource that took thousands of years of languishing many miles beneath the Earth's surface to transform into a useable energy commodity is now being extracted from the ...
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Unloader vs. Regulator
From: Pumptec Inc.Description: PumpScout and Pumptec Inc are pleased to announce a new partnership that will introduce more pump buyers to Pumptec's high-quality duplex stainless steel plunger pumps. The pump manufacturer is now a ...
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When to Choose Buna or Viton Elastomer
From: Pumptec Inc.Description: The choice of elastomers, rubber parts, in a pump can be very critical to the long-term success of the pump system. Pumptec provides 2 standard choices for their pumps, Buna or Viton. Buna (NBR, ...
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Luggage X-Ray Cooling
Description: The X-ray tube generates heat during operation and must be cooled to allow continuous operation. The cooling is accomplished by a standard chiller assembly including a liquid to air heat exchanger, a ...
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Printed Circuit Board Rinse Water Circulation
Description: Problem: The rinse water control was controlled by manually operating valves installed in the main and by-pass lines. Valve adjustments were required as the tank water level varied or the tank water ...
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Progressive Cavity Pumps Move Clarifier Underflow
From: seepex, Inc.Description: Gas production using hydraulic fracturing is growing across the U.S. production fields including the Marcellus, Utica and Huron basins in the east, the Haynesville in the south and the Bakken in the ...
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Progressive Cavity Pumps Solve Magnesium Hydroxide Problems
From: seepex, Inc.Description: At a power plant site in the U.S., Fuel Tech was cost-effectively and safely reducing slag buildup in multiple coalfired power plant boilers through the use of a proprietary chemical injection ...
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Pumping trash for digestion
From: seepex, Inc.Description: The unsung heroes in anaerobic digesters are progressive cavity pumps. They move tons of solid waste, allowing the digester to process biosolids en route to generating electricity and other forms of ...
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Taking the Cake Cavity Pumps Simplify Drying System Feed
From: seepex, Inc.Description: Dewatored sludge Is conveyed Into a seepex ilve bottom hopper buffer bin that holds 24 hours of product to ensure a consistent supply Is sent to the dryer. The sludge cake is pushed through 80 feet of ...
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Drive unit for insulin delivery
From: Buehler Motor, Inc.Description: Develop a drive unit for precisely metered delivery of the insulin to the patient via a micropump. ...
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Optimization of a blood glucose measuring device
From: Buehler Motor, Inc.Description: Reduce overall product costs and complexity, as well as improve manufacturing feasibility. ...
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Solution for disposable drug delivery system
From: Buehler Motor, Inc.Description: Develop a complex drive unit including suitable electronics. ...
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Pump FAQs
From: Pumptec Inc.Description: Frequently Asked Questions for pumps. ...
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Iwaki MDM Eliminates Noxious Fumes - Tankers Unloading
Description: Hydroxypropyl Acrylates: Used in the industrial production of acrylate polymers for lacquers and artificial resins, and as a co-monomer in adhesives, elastomers, inks, and oil additives. Exposure to ...
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Iwaki MX-H High Pressure Reduces Life Cycle Costs And Improves Process
Description: Chemicals: Many different chemicals are used in circuit board manufacture. Most of these chemicals and their emissions are considered hazardous or toxic and have government regulated exposure limits. ...
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Pump Basics
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: The most important characteristic of a centrifugal pump is that of converting energy from a source of motion (the motor) first into speed (or kinetic energy) and then into pressure energy. A pump's ...
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Maximize Sludge Transfer Pump ROI
From: BlackmerDescription: System One® Vortex pumps from Blackmer® are designed to enhance cost ef? ciencies and reduce breakdowns ...
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Picking the Right Product for the Job
Description: There are strict regulations that manufacturers must meet to ensure that distribution and transfer in the global chemical manufacturing process protects humans and the environment. The transfer of ...
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Sealless Resin Pumps
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: The design of sealless internal gear pumps makes them an engineered solution for environmentally conscious fluid-handling that lowers maintenance costs and eliminates environmental costs-all of which ...
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Single-Use Pumps Take Center Stage
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Single-use quaternary diaphragm pump technology from Quattroflow™ meets the speed-to-market challenges of biologic-based drug manufacturing ...
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Case Histories: Horizontal Pumps
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: The need arose in chemical plants for an emergency pump to drain and transfer different solutions of liquids (predominantly a solution of HCl at ambient temperature) and in any case in continuously ...
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Case History: Plastic Corrosion-Resistant Pumps
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: Figure 1 shows a case information regarding the nature of the liquid not communicated correctly. In particular, information regarding the concentration and temperature of the acid to be handled was ...
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Chemical Pumps: Zero Liquid Discharge in Surface Treatment Shop
From: Savino Barbera SrlDescription: A surface treatment shop employing "zero liquid discharge" is a manufacturing shop which does not discharge any waste water into the sewerage or surface waters. Zero Liquid discharge does not mean ...
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Horticulture
Description: Automation of all processes in big greenhouses like climate regulation, artificial rain, artificial light, rainwater storage and treatment, nutrient preparation and dosing ...
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Motor Pulley Selection Chart
Description: Frequently questions arise concerning the selection of the proper motor pulley to get the required pump performance. Here are charts which show the available motor pulley sizes with the respective ...
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Winterizing a Pump
Description: Step to take for Winterizing a Pump ...
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A Pump Built For Chemical Compatibility
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: The chemical universe is one of the most diverse in the global economy. This diversity means that the pumps used in their manufacture, transport, handling and containment must be nimble and ...
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Brightening a Surly Brewer's Day
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Mouvex C-Series Eccentric Disc Pump provides the gentle handling, low shear and minimum pulsation necessary to meet Surly Brewing's demands. ...
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Diaphragm Metering Pumps for Corrosive Liquids
Description: This article highlights the pumping technology - specifically, diaphragm metering pumps - that most successfully meets the challenges inherent in most wastewater applications that require the use of ...
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Making the Most of a Maturing Market
From: BlackmerDescription: Rapidly growing Diesel Exhaust Fluid market creates opportunities for pumps that can efficiently operate along the many points of the DEF supply chain. ...
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Putting efficiency into oil and gas
From: Griswold Pump CompanyDescription: Centrifugal pump technology can play a crucial role in many applications within the USA's new 'golden era' of oil and gas exploration and production. Focusing on the key areas of saltwater handling ...
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Redefining Used-Oil Handling
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Collection operations for universal lubricants' innovative used-oil "re-refinery" receive a boost from Eccentric Disc Pump Technology ...
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Seal-less Resin Pumps
From: Pump Solutions GroupDescription: Synthetic resins play a major role in product production within many industries. Handling resins requires pump technology that will not leak, such as that offered by EnviroGear® Seal-less ...
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seepex MD PC Pumps, a Tight Little Package
From: seepex, Inc.Description: MODERN TODAY PROVIDING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLDWIDE PUMP INDUSTRY JUNE 2012 TM PREVIEW ISSUE NEW PUMPS ANSWER DEMAND REPAIR VS. REPLACE TAKING REDESIGN HEAD ON ...
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Solid partnerships help company expand
From: BlackmerDescription: Despite the financial risks involved, Italian company L'Autogas Orobica boldly decided to stake it all on an expansion plan to help achieve its goal of becoming a leading distributor of liquefied ...
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Waste Not, Want Not
Description: Water use and conservation is becoming a hot-button issue across the country. This is forcing the use of innovative thinking and the creation of systems that are designed to use our precious water ...
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A muddy challenge for oil supply chain
Description: An oil industry processing equipment supplier was experiencing a growing demand among their oil & gas customers for equipment to handle the rigours of transferring drilling mud from the wellhead. Not ...
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Sealless Pump Outperforms Competition!
Description: The local chemical manufacturer in our region was a customer of the distributor, who sold them other AODD and mag drive pumps. Upon the anticipated release of T-Mag Mag Drive Pumps we had been talking ...
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T-Mag Sealless Pump Solution
Description: Customer had an existing centrifugal in this application. I was not able to identify it due to the rusted tag. He was looking to use one of our competitor's mag pumps for this application, which would ...
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Added Peace of Mind
From: BlackmerDescription: Producers, distributors, stores and users of AdBlue turn to pumping equipment from Blackmer to help eliminate harmful product contamination. ...
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Conquering the Challenges of Latex Emulsion-Handling
Description: Latex emulsion is, and will continue to be, a crucial component in any number of industries and the products they produce, some of which are as common as the adhesive on the back of a postage stamp. ...
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Interest Grows in Single-Use Pumps
Description: The traditional pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceutical industries are distinct entities. The commonality is they both product drug products for human and animal health. One of the key differences: the ...
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Over 100 years of pumping innovation
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Mouvex was founded in 1906 when French engineer Andre Petit completed his invention of the eccentric movement pump principle. Mr. Petit's eccentric disc pump technology revolutionized liquid and ...
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Pumping Dangerous Chemicals
Description: This article looks at the history and role of pumps in chemical safety, covering key considerations when selecting a pump to handle acids, solvents and caustics, and describes the advantages of a pump ...
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Reliable Pumps for Abrasive Material
Description: Solid-body plastic AODD pumps deliver the operational ability required for challenging abrasive-handling applications. ...
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Storage Terminals - Making Smart Energy Choices
From: BlackmerDescription: Demands put on liquid storage terminals appear to be at cross-purposes: Maximize throughput while minimizing energy consumption. Nevertheless, sliding vane pumps provide a transfer technology that ...
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Tackling Aggressive Fluids
Description: It's a fact of manufacturing: abrasive liquids and compounds need to play a role in the creation of some of the world's most recognizable products. These products only get made, however, if the ...
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Bleaching Away Your Fears
Description: Mechanically actuated metering pumps improve operational efficiencies and eliminate concerns associated with off gassing in sodium hypochlorite applications. ...
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Pumping Soap, Not Bubbles
From: BlackmerDescription: The evolution of soap and detergents has come a long way since the days when fats, oils and ashes were used as cleaning products and when "washing" clothes meant taking them down to the river and ...
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Pumps for Oil & Gas Terminal Transfer
From: Griswold Pump CompanyDescription: With the boom in oil and gas production in the U.S., many production companies complete a new well every other day. The opportunities for production companies in this new era of oil and natural gas ...
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Hurricane Help
Description: Florida utility chooses new pump system to withstand storms. ...
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Wastewater pump clog resistance cannot be determined by throughlet size
From: Flygt, a Xylem brandDescription: A wastewater pump's throughlet size is frequently used to specify clog resistance, despite data that demonstrates the irrelevance of this measurement. Clogging is a critical and highly undesirable ...
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Handling dangerous chemicals
Description: The chemical industry continues its growth trend after the economic downturn of 2008. Chemical manufacturers continue to increase capital spending. But that growth is being met by increased ...
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Isolating the Best Pumping Option for Isocyanates
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: The Bhopal disaster demonstrated the hazards involved with handling isocyanates. In today's manufacturing environment, particularly in the polyurethane industry, isocyanates are one of the most ...
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Latex Pumping Challenges
Description: Though latexes are versatile and can be used to enhance a product's performance characteristics-such as durability, dimensional stability and chemical resistance-they require precise manufacturing and ...
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Maximizing Sludge Transfer
From: BlackmerDescription: In summary, every community produces wastewater, and this wastewater needs to be treated. Selecting a centrifugal vortex pump for sludge transfer applications may go a long way in helping to treat ...
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Maximizing the return on investment of sludge transfer pumps
From: BlackmerDescription: Blackmer has designed its System One® vortex pumps to maximize reliability during wastewater applications. This includes the transfer of sludge andslurries with large particle solids, materials ...
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Reputation Reaffirmed
From: BlackmerDescription: For more than three decades, Rickey Watkins has worked hard to build a positive reputation in the retail propane and propane-plant construction markets in the Southeast. One of the quickest ways ...
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Smart Energy Choices
From: BlackmerDescription: The current day demands that are put on liquid storage terminals can appear to be at cross purposes: maximize turn rates and throughputs while minimizing energy consumption. While this balancing act ...
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Controlling Groundwater for Tunnels and Shafts
Description: Tunnels and tunnel shafts present unique problems when dealing with groundwater. Surface access is always the critical issue and forms the basis for selecting tunneling as the excavation method used ...
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AMX Series Pumps: A run-dry hit!
Description: he addition of the T-Mag Magnetic Drive Pumps gave us an opportunity to finally talk to our textile customer about the mag drive applications that they've been using to transfer various chemicals. ...
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Case Study: From Rags to Riches - Elledge waste water facility
From: seepex, Inc.Description: Increased production demands and rising disposal costs prompted the need for an expansion at the Elledge Wastewater Treatment facility in Winston-Salem, NC. The facility services the greater ...
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Frac water treatment success in Mt. Pleasant, PA
From: seepex, Inc.Description: Hydraulic reservoir fracturing gas production is growing across the US. Production fields such as the Marcellus, Utica, and Huron basins in the east along with the Haynesville in the south and Bakken ...
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Seepex NaOCI Metering Pump
From: seepex, Inc.Description: Several issues stood in the way of the needed level of performance to pump sodium hypochlorite, or "NaOCI", for the water treatment facility. By design, diaphragm pumps are very complex and prone to ...
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T-Mag Pump Charges Forward!
Description: Distributor replaces competing mag drive pump supplied on an OEM system. The Pump replaced was a magnetic drive pump, the customer was having consistent problems with the competitor's pumps... ...
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T-Mag Pump Cools Negative Perceptions
Description: Customer needed a zero leakage pump in a chilled water application. The package was a gas booster with a chilled water-cooling system. Local requirements stated that there had to be a zero leakage ...
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T-Mag Pump Delivers
Description: Our Customer has a plating application that required the mixing and re-circulating of chemicals, an 18% Zinc solution @100 F. The customer also needed a sealless solution that could at times, run dry. ...
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T-Mag Pump Has The Right Makeup!
Description: A large cosmetics manufacturer (a Top Ten Account) in the United States had been consistently having sealing and maintenance problems with our competitor's pumps. The Introduction of the T-Mag Mag ...
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Taking Groundwater Out of Its Place
Description: Tom Minihan, vice president of Griffin Dewatering Midwest, L.L.C., said Griffin's innovation and ability to handle tough jobs has allowed the company to be successful for so many years. Minihan has ...
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Pump Basics
From: General PumpDescription: This page outlines a few fundamental concepts you should find useful when working with our pumps ...
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Avoiding Pump Problems
Description: Tips for Operation and Maintenance of a Submersible Pump. ...
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A Pole to Pole Phenomenon
From: BlackmerDescription: From north to south, and all points in between, Blackmer pump and compressor technologies have played a leading role for more than a century in meeting the world's product-transfer needs ...
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AODD Pumps Benefit from Air Distribution System
Description: Maximize energy efficiency by identifying the pumps' optimal flow rate and air consumption ...
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Bleach Away Your Fears
Description: Mechanically actuated metering pumps improve operational efficiencies and eliminate concerns associated with off-gassing in sodium hypochlorite applications ...
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First Risk, Then Reward
From: BlackmerDescription: Wenner Gas Terminal hits the ground running and adds to the family legacy with the help of LPG & NH, supply and Blackmer pumps and compressors ...
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Inlet Pressure VS Liquid Temperature
Description: As the temperature of the pumped liquid increases, the likelihood of vaporization and cavitation increases. Several aspects of the system should be considered with elevated temperatures to achieve ...
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Make Maintenance Mandatory
From: Griswold Pump CompanyDescription: Centrifugal pumps must be kept in optimum shape to handle harsh chemical-processing operations ...
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Move it with Mouvex
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Waste oil streams are, by their nature, heterogeneous. Finding the best pump to handle a range of situations is therefore crucial in achieving safety and efficiency in handling them. Philippe Voilly* ...
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Pumping Efficiencies Into Oil & Gas
From: Griswold Pump CompanyDescription: Efficient, versatile, reliable centrifugal-pump technology can play a crucial role in many applications within the United States' new "Golden Era" of oil-and-gas ...
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Timing Is Everything
From: Griswold Pump CompanyDescription: In the world of business, much like in everyday life, timing is everything. It can be one of the most critical factors to the success or failure of any company. And more often than not, every ...
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Sizing a Pump Should Be Easier than Reading Greek
Description: When applying the liquid principals of science to their pumping projects. Engineers, maintenance personnel, construction crews, utility contractors, municipal folks and even some homeowners should all ...
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Micro-Dispensing Liquid Pump
From: KNF Neuberger, Inc.Description: New liquid dispensing pump technology that uses a solenoid rather than a dc motor precisely delivers fluids up to 20 times per second for accurate metering applications. The design of the pump also ...
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Cavitation Troubleshooting
Description: Cavitation can cause serious damage to your pump and system. Review these common conditions and solutions to help eliminate unnecessary downtime and maintenance costs. ...
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Extended Storing
Description: For systems that are used in a seasonal application or as a standby system, proper precautions must be taken to preserve the life of your pump/pumping system when subjected to extended storage. To ...
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Flush-Style Plunger Pump
Description: This guide contains training information pertaining to use, operation and system design when using our flush style pumps. ...
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Handy Formulas to Help You
Description: This document contains formulas to calculate RM, GPM, required horsepower, pulley size and torque ...
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Pump Replacement Part Availability
From: KSB AGDescription: Pumps are the heartbeat that enables most industries to run the processes that create products. Untold thousands of pumps are now in the 25-to-75-year-old age group and must continue running even ...
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Wastewater Pump Stations Relieve Flooding
From: KSB AGDescription: Major infrastructure upgrades handle the pressure from a Mexican drainage system. Two big wastewater pump stations with high performance submersible motor pumps relieve flooding during the rainy ...
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A New Level of Green
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Sliding vane technology is being used worldwide to reduce energy cost and consumption, and create a more efficient pumping system. While world-renowned for its ability to offer the best in increased ...
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Customized Fix for Abrasive PV Slurry
Description: The manufacturing of wafers for photovoltaic (PV) solar panels requires a precise process that puts production equipment to the test. Several of these processes involve highly abrasive slurries, ...
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Food For Thought
From: MOUVEX-BlackmerDescription: Eccentric disc pump technology helps feed the world's growing population by eliminating waste in food-production operations. ...
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New Designs Pump Up Cleanability
Description: Pump sanitation features improve product safety, with the other eye on efficiency. ...
