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Michael Smith Engineers has introduced a new range of Inoxpa Prolac HCP hygienic centrifugal pumps for high hygiene level applications.
The Prolac HCP range of compact, close-coupled centrifugal pumps are designed to provide flow rates up to 220m3/h, maximum differential pressure (heads) up to 140m, and maximum system pressures of 16 bar.
The pumps are available in 316L stainless steel, are EHEDG…
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The global screw pumps market is projected to grow significantly by 2019, posting a compound annual growth rate of over 7%, a new market study forecasts.
According to the study, conducted by Research and Markets, the growth is triggered by rapid urbanisation and industrialisation around the globe.
Urbanisation has resulted in a rising demand for improved infrastructure and water and wastewater…
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Curtiss-Wright Corp. (CW) has successfully completed the shipment of the first pair of AP1000 reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) for Sanmen Unit 1 in China, the world's first AP1000 nuclear power plant.
The two RCPs are expected to be on-site in December 2015, in support of key project milestones.
CW also expects to complete production and shipment of the remaining two RCPs for Sanmen…
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Amarinth, a UK-based pump manufacturer, has delivered a bespoke 2.8m vertical hydrocarbon condensate pump to a Sonatrach refinery in Algeria.
The delivered pump will act as a direct plug-and-play replacement for an existing unreliable pump.
The replacement pump required rapid delivery due to concerns that the refinery could be shut down if a catastrophic failure of the old pump…
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Two Landia chopper pumps have resolved plugging and subsequent costly maintenance issues at one of the largest convention centres in California, US.
A pump and engineering distributor Mitchell Lewis & Staver were called in to the Moscone Center in San Francisco by Koffler Electric to address regular wet well problems.
Effluent from the centre’s bathrooms, combined with food waste, floor…
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HealthAid, one of the UK’s premier manufacturers and distributors of nutritionally balanced supplements, has replaced its ageing and increasingly unreliable filling machine with a Flexicon PF6 tabletop aseptic liquid filler from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology (WMFT).
The investment has not only increased machine uptime, but boosted dispensing accuracy, a vital…
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When upgrading one of Europe’s largest sewers, which currently serves 3.5 million people, increasing its capacity by 60%, and taking into account a predicted population increase of 10% by 2021, it is understandable why such a system is regarded as a ‘super sewer’.
These are the scale of the upgrades being undertaken by Thames Water at their Beckton and Crossness sites in East…
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Jump, a French manufacturer of positive displacement, vacuum, and drum pumps, has upgraded its JE Series eccentric disc pump.
The company has so far manufactured its equipment from ductile iron or 316L stainless steel, but it is now expanding its range to cover stainless cast iron fabrication.
Stainless cast iron can be used in sensitive applications for which 316L stainless steel might not be a…
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Verder has introduced the new VA25-HP (DA) high pressure air-operated double diaphragm pump for compressed air pressure and filter press applications.
The new AODD pump is capable of boosting up pressure up to two times the used compressed air pressure and stalling against closed discharge, with no safety pressure valve required.
The VA25-HP (DA) has no need for ancillary equipment to regulate…
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Lifteck International, a Canadian pump company, has entered into a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Shell Canada to collaborate on development and commercialisation of Lifteck's patented gas drive pump (GDP) technology for artificial lift by harvesting reservoir energy.
The technology – originally developed and patented by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and exclusively licensed…
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Iwaki America, part of the Japanese pump manufacturer Iwaki, has introduced the Iwaki Air portfolio of air-operated double diaphragm (AODD) pumps.
The Massachusetts-based company will now begin to offer the Iwaki Air AODD pump products to the North, Central, and South America regions.
The new AODD pumps have been designed for applications including sumping, filling, transferring, batching, and…
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A major waterworks in South Africa has replaced its old progressive cavity (PC) pumps with Bredel Apex15 hose pumps from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology (WM).
The state-owned Umgeni Water is the largest supplier of bulk potable water in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal on the east coast of South Africa.
The organisation currently supplies 426 million m3 of potable water to its six municipal…
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Netzsch Pumpen & Systeme, headquartered in Germany, has redesigned the Tornado T2 rotary lobe pump, developed by its subsidiary Netzsch Pumps North America.
The new pump, with a delivery rate up to 8m3/h and back pressure of 8-10 bar, has been specifically developed for lower volumetric flow in chemical and hygienic processes in the food and process industries.
The all-metal model was…
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Wilden, part of PSG and a global air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pump technology provider, has released two new 1½” (38 mm) advanced high pressure bolted metal AODD pump models.
The HS400S and HS430S models utilise a bolted configuration, which ensures total product containment, and feature redesigned liquid paths to reduce internal friction to maximize output and…
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International technology group Andritz has received an order from Hohhot Water Supply to equip two pumping stations in the city of Hohhot in North China with six and five double-flow split-case pumps, respectively.
Start-up of the two pumping stations is scheduled for late 2015 and they will deliver 200,000m3 of water per hour from the Yellow River to the city of Hohhot, the capital of the Inner…
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Westinghouse Electric Company, Curtiss-Wright Corp, and State Nuclear Power Technology Corp (SNPTC) of China have successfully completed the final performance testing and post-test inspections of the lead AP1000 plant reactor coolant pump (RCP).
Throughout the testing, the reactor coolant pump performance met the design requirements which are necessary to support safe and reliable…
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Xylem has launched the Lowara 1300 series, a new range of submersible pumps specifically designed for sewage and surface water operations in commercial building, light industrial, and municipal applications.
The new range is available with both non-clog and vortex impellers to enable specification for applications, such as sewage and surface wastewater pumping for the commercial building…
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Energy Recovery (ER), a Californian pressure energy technology provider for industrial fluid flows, has entered into a 15-year deal with Schlumberger Technology Corp, providing exclusive rights to ER’s VorTeq hydraulic pumping system.
The VorTeq system is the first hydraulic fracturing manifold (‘missile’) built to isolate hydraulic fracturing pumps from abrasive proppants that…
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