Duechting Pumpen Maschinenfabrik, a specialist for the development and production of high-performance centrifugal pumps with its headquarters in Witten, Germany, took over the Habermann Mineral Systems GmbH on January 1, 2018. Habermann Mineral Systems (HMS) was also a Witten-based specialist in the design and manufacture of suction dredgers and solids pumps for the sand and gravel industry. With the takeover on 1st of January 2018, the established brand “Habermann Suction Dredger” was integrated into the Duechting umbrella brand and will be continued as the “Habermann suction dredger by Duechting”. In 2015, Duechting already had adopted the single-stage centrifugal pump program and incorporated the robust features of the world-famous “suction dredger pumps” into the conception of its own series, the highly wear-resistant WRX series for abrasive conveyed goods.

New Facilities

Desmi Builds New Pump Testing Facility

Danish-based manufacturer DESMI’s latest test bed, completed at the end of 2017 by DESMI Automation, works with extreme accuracy and a wider variety of testing scenarios – and it is enabling DESMI’s customers to tap into a new, expanded set of testing certification services.

“We’ve made a considerable investment to upgrade our existing test bed with complete, state-of-the art technology,” said André Jelstrup, Production Manager at DESMI. “With eight different test bases, each equipped to handle pumps of varying sizes and types, we’ve now got far greater flexibility.”

Flexibility isn’t the only advantage of the new facilities. Just as importantly, the new test bed can be both upgraded and expanded down the line. “This is where the real future-proofing comes in,” Jelstrup concludes.

DESMI’s upgraded test bed technology is a vast improvement in performance testing. Once a pump is secured on its skid, an auto-cycle fills the pump cylinder with liquid, pushes the air out and automatically tests various points on a pre-determined pump curve. All the while, two viewing monitors provide a continuous and complete readout of the test results. Tolerances can also be accurately measured, providing a significantly larger data set than the previous system. This latter feature can be used to refine designs or catch problems at a much earlier point during testing.

Additionally, the new test bed enables technicians to experiment by up-scaling and down-scaling the power supply, simulating different media viscosities, or changing the number of frequency converters, for example. It also makes it easier to connect customer-provided frequency converters for testing pumps to reflect more accurate operating conditions.

The new test bed facility also contains an additional bay where noise and vibration tests can be performed, expanding DESMI’s ability to provide certification services around these issues, as well.

Looking for ways to move the company’s test bed technology even further forward, the DESMI team has been hard at work to deliver remote viewing of pump testing - in real time. While many customers are able to visit the test bed in person, the option to view testing remotely will likely prove to be of huge benefit for customers around the globe.

Finance

Homa Pumps Form JV with Ekki Pumps

German pump manufacturer Homa has formed a joint venture with India’s Ekki Pumps to form a waste-water pump company, according to February 13, 2018 issue of Business Standard. The JV, which will focus on India and the neighboring markets, marks the Indian partner's entry into the waste-water pump segment. Ekki Pumps claims this is the first ever Indo-German Joint Venture in the pump industry. The agreement follows extensive talks between Ekki and Homa on forming an alliance to cater to the Indian market.

The objective of this equal JV is to bring to India and neighboring markets a range of efficient and reliable waste-water pumps and systems based on German technology. This new partnership will enable Homa to expand its reach to South Asia, while Ekki will gain access to a top European brand, and its waste-water pumping technology. This will enable the Indian partner to offer a wider range of pumps in the domestic and neighboring markets.

As part of the JV, the two firms are also looking at setting up a new manufacturing facility in India, in a move that is expected to create 200 jobs over the next few years. The newly formed alliance will be based in Coimbatore with Dr Klaus Hoffmann as Chairman and Kanishka Arumugam joining as chief executive. They will be supported by Vasileios Petridis and Arumugam Periasamy as directors on the company's board.

Hoffmann said the expansion of its international operations allows Homa to develop an increasingly flexible, agile and efficient global strategy to be future ready. A significant part of the Rs 1.5 billion that the company is investing as part of its global expansion plan will go towards the JV with Ekki.

Richter Chemie Signs Global Strategic Agreement with Wanha Chemical Group

Richter Chemie‐Technik GmbH, a global market leader of fluoropolymer lined pump and valve

solutions proudly announces a global strategic agreement with Wanhua Chemical Group at the closing of last year. The long term strategy of world’s number 1 producer of MDI is to become a global leading chemical corporation; with targeted acquisitions and overseas projects it is systematically building towardtthis goal. The first products were supplied over 15 years ago to Wanhua and today thousands of Richter pumps, control valves and manual valves are enabling Wanhua to reach its long term

strategic goals.

Projects

Bedford Pumps Supplying Fish Friendly Pump for Belgian Pump Station

Bedford Pumps Ltd, the UK’s leading manufacturer of high capacity pumps for the land drainage industry, has won their second order to supply Fish Friendly pumps to Belgium. Bedford Pumps worked together with supply chain partners, Hidrostal Benelux and electrical mechanical contractors, Electro Goeminne Dikkelvenne, to offer the most reliable and efficient solution for Engelendelft Pumping Station in Houthulst, Belgium, owned and operated by VMM.

The vertical suspended pumpset from Bedford’s DAF (Direct Drive Axial Flow) range will discharge below floor level at a duty of 400 liters per second at 3m head. As the pump is to be used in brackish water, it is manufactured entirely from Stainless Steel, except for the impeller which is cast from aluminum bronze.

Bedford’s pumps were carefully matched against the client’s duty requirement and designed not only to offer a safe passage to fish and eels but also to offer enhanced life, lower maintenance costs and improved efficiency, resulting in the lowest total cost of ownership.

Bedford Pumps Fish Friendly pumps have proven credentials awarded from independent research consultants in the field of water management, VisAdvies BV, following extensive and stringent trials. The tests prove conclusively that Bedford Pumps’ range of submersible and direct drive pumps are fish and eel friendly with no direct mortality observed from exposure to the pump.

Bedford Pumps Selected to Supply Pumps for UK Water Pumping Station

Bedford Pumps Ltd has been selected to supply six high energy suspended bowl pumps for a new water pumping station near Usk in Monmouthshire. The pumps for Prioress Mill River Water Extraction Pumping Station will extract water from the River Usk to Llandegfedd Reservoir, approximately 4.5km away. The reservoir supplies Sluvad Water Treatment Works (WTW) which in turn supplies a large proportion of South East Wales.

The contract between Bedford Pumps and Skanska, in partnership with Arcadis as the Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water Capital Delivery Partners, is for the design, manufacture and testing of four high flow 1.7 MW pumpsets, and two low flow 710 kW vertically suspended bowl pumps. The pumps are sized to accommodate the maximum licensed abstraction rates from the river Usk throughout the annual cycle. The high flow pumpsets have an installed weight of over 20,000 Kg.

The new pumping station system is designed to transfer raw river water, screened to 2mm by new intake fish protection screens, to Llandegfedd reservoir via a common delivery manifold, and a combination of 42”/48” parallel rising mains. The large variation in abstracted flows yields a considerable operating range of transfer duties, which is to be accommodated using multiple pumps operating in parallel where necessary.

Bedford Pumps secured the prestigious contract due to their ability to meet the client’s needs for the most energy efficient and lowest Whole Life Cycle Cost pumping solution.

Andritz Selling Pumps for Egyptian Irrigation Project

International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from CONCORD for Engineering and Contracting, Cairo, Egypt, to supply 17 vertical line shaft pumps, including a set of spare parts, for a pumping station providing the water supply to the Nubaria irrigation canal, located south of the city of Alexandria. Start-up is scheduled for 2018.

The pumps supplied will be individually adapted to the customer’s specifications and achieve an aggregate flow rate of 11.7 m³per second. Each pump achieves a head of 28 meters at a shaft power of 222 kW.

Decisive in award of the contract to ANDRITZ were the special technical features and the low life-cycle costs of the ANDRITZ pumps as well as the many years of experience that ANDRITZ has in this sector, with numerous references in the Middle East and Africa. ANDRITZ first supplied irrigation pumps and equipment to these regions back in the 1960s.

KSB India Pumps Used in Indian Nuclear Plant

Make in India is a major national program driven by the Government of India. It is designed to facilitate investment, foster innovation, enhance skill development, protect intellectual property and build best in class manufacturing infrastructure in the country. The primary objective of this initiative is to attract investments from across the globe and strengthen India’s manufacturing sector.

With the Indian Government’s ambitious growth plans in the energy sector, and the aim to raise contribution in indigenous manufacturing under “Make in India” initiative, M/s Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) awarded an order worth Rs. 4130 Mio to KSB Pumps Limited for supply of 8 Primary Coolant Pumps - RSR 400/2 with related accessories. These pumps will be installed at NPCIL’s Gorakhpur Anu Vidyut Pariyojana 1 & 2 project Haryana.

With the completion of initial technical as well as commercial formalities; manufacturing of these pumps will commence at the “Energy Pumps Division” of KSB. Delivery of these pumps is expected to begin from June 2021 with a target to complete the order by March 2023.

KSB has been the pioneer in indigenizing Vertical Canister Pumps and Boiler Feed Pumps for Super Critical Power Plants, some of which have already been supplied or are at the dispatch stage. NPCIL has embarked on an ambitious program of 12 PHWR projects of 700 MW at various locations including the 2 at Gorakhpur in Haryana; KSB in India has taken up the challenge of indigenizing the Primary Coolant Pumps. For the Gorakhpur and future projects of NPCIL, KSB is now geared up to supply the PCPs made 100 percent locally, following receipt of this order.

Sim Pumps Supplying Pumps for Staten Island Ferries

The Staten Island Ferry is one of the New York City famous landmarks, which connects Staten Island with Manhattan. The salty waters of the Hudson River take a toll on metallic pumping equipment, and pump corrosion and erosion are one of the main concerns of the Ferry operators.

Two of the vessels’ general service pumps were upgraded from Metallic Pumps, which were having severe corrosion and maintenance problems to SIMSITE® Structural Engineered Composite Pumps, which will never corrode in sea water! SIMSITE® Structural Composite Pumps are built out of a structural graphite composite, hence completely eliminating any future corrosion problems.

Engineers at the SIMS Pump Company were tasked to design Structural Composite General Service Pumps to replace the existing Vertical Double Suction Bronze Pumps. The required guidelines were to keep the overall sizes close to the original, minimize any piping modifications and maintain, or exceed, the pump performance and efficiency. The new SIMSITE® pumps had to fit into the same confined space with the minimal piping modifications.

The SIMSITE® Structural Composite Pump is a new and proven technology, which is breaking

into the old world of metallic Engine Room Pumps offering the Customer a much better

solution with lower operating and maintenance costs! SIMSITE® pumps are light weight, energy efficient, and last much longer than metallic pumps with little, or no, maintenance costs! All SIMSITE® Pumps are completely machined as opposed to being cast or molded, eliminating balance problems, casting defects and porosity problems inherent in metallic pumps!

In the case of the Staten Island Ferries, the analysis of the pump system by SIMS engineers,

presented an opportunity to utilize a SingleSuction Pump design versus the original DoubleSuction Design of the metallic pumps. The upgrade to a Single Suction Design with a SIMSITE® Pump led to a more efficient, lighter and more reliable pump! The SIMSITE® Structural Composite Pump also had the additional benefit of reducing the noise

level to an auditable level.

New Products

Watson Marlow Adds to Qdos Pump Line for Sodium Hypochlorite Metering

The new Qdos 20 pump – an extension to the Qdos range – has been launched by Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group. The new pump has been developed to offer highly accurate sodium hypochlorite metering in disinfection applications with flow rates to 20 liters per hour at a maximum of 7 bar pressure. It is especially suitable for applications at the well sites of many smaller water treatment plants, where operators are often injecting into water lines at higher pressure.

Qdos 20 features the same user-friendly interface and control options, ensuring that users have continuity with any existing Qdos applications. Offering low total cost of ownership, the new model is designed as a drop-in replacement for diaphragm pumps. Qdos pumps also include the ReNu pumphead for single, no-tools maintenance.

Its intuitive interface provides simple control of the pump via manual, 4-20mA, contact or PROFIBUS control. The brushless DC motor control maintains flow accuracy of +/-1 percent with a repeatability of +/-0.5 percent and a turndown ratio of 3330:1.

The pump is ideally suited for tight control for chlorine residual. Successful field trials and SCADA data indicate a considerable improvement in variation of chlorine residual compared to even the highest specification diaphragm metering pumps. This is achieved via the twin offset rotor design.

The Qdos 20 peristaltic pump technology uses two tube channels; where the channels are operated out of phase. Although peristaltic pumps are generally lower in pulsation than other positive displacement pumps, Qdos 20 reduces this pulsation even further by alternate tube compressions ensuring pulsation is balanced out. This results in almost continual positive fluid displacement, and consistent metering of chemical into the application.

Process uptime is maximized by facilitating quick, safe and easy pumphead removal and replacement, with no need for tools, no specialist training and no maintenance technicians needed on site. The contained pumphead design with integral leak detection reduces wastage and eliminates operator exposure to chemicals.

Field trials have confirmed the long life of the pumphead, with one utilities customer in Minneapolis experiencing 12 months pumphead life. When operating up to 7 bar, the Qdos 20 pump also significantly reduced maintenance downtime. As a result, the plant is currently in the process of replacing the trial model with a production unit.

Weir Minerals Brings Out New Dewatering Pumps

The new Multiflo® RF range sets the benchmark for dewatering pump units, expertly engineered in a compact package, offering customers a light and flexible solution. Weir Minerals developed the Multiflo RF unit following specific customer requests for a more compact dewatering pump that could move around a site with ease while still retaining the same performance, reliability and robust build of other Weir units.

The key to the compact design is the use of close coupled pumps, which provide the added benefit of accurate pump alignment. The Multiflo RF pump was designed with built-in skid runners and a bolt-on dozer push-bar option to offer its customers versatility of operating configurations.

The new diesel driven Multiflo® RF pump presents a unit that incorporates the convenience of an auto vacuum priming system with an inbuilt skid and a compact design. The range has been developed to operate effectively in a variety of harsh environments and applications, such as mining, quarrying, and water transfer. The dirty water capability sets the pump above the competition.

The Multiflo® RF range includes seven new units, each designed to maximize efficiency no matter the application

Sundyne Adds to Line of Direct Drive Centrifugal Pumps

Sundyne, a global leader in the design and manufacture of pumps and compressors announced a series of upgrades to its line of LMV 801 vertical direct drive centrifugal pumps.

Each API 610 (OH3 or OH5) pump is optimized to address flows to 380 gpm (86 m³/hr), and heads to 720 ft (219 m), which are demanded by a wide range of applications across the upstream oil & gas, midstream gas processing, and downstream refining, petrochemical and general industrial markets.

New additions to the line of LMV 801 direct drive pumps include:

· 801CS (API 682 Cartridge Seal) – utilizes a self-contained process seal that fits seamlessly onto the pump shaft as a single assembly. The compact cartridge seal provides operators and maintenance engineers with a convenient alternative to standard component seals. It reduces errors in installation while preventing many of the common causes of seal failure. The 801CS also utilizes a new bearing box which incorporates a stiffer shaft, larger oil capacity, easy access to the cartridge seal, and enhanced oil cooling.

· 801S (API 685 sealless magnetic drive) – this configuration combines the hydraulics of Sundyne's direct-drive pumps with the magnetic drive technology pioneered by Sundyne HMD/Kontro more than 70 years ago. It is built to comply with both API 685 and API 610 standards, and is specifically engineered to eliminate emissions and improve personnel safety without compromising on performance. Dimensionally-interchangeable with Sundyne's standard 801 pump, retro-fit kits are available to convert mechanical seal drive components with the new sealless option, without having to disconnect the existing LMV-801 casing and diffusers from the piping.

· Flexible Mechanical Seal and Sealless Configurations – the line of direct drive pumps utilizes standard seal configurations, including single, double or tandem. Any LMV-801 pump can be converted in the field to an ultra-reliable, API 682 cartridge seal, or leak free API 685 sealless magnetic drive configuration.

Each Sundyne direct drive pump is designed to operate at its best efficiency point and maximize reliability and tolerance to system variations. The new enhancements and upgrade options to the line of LMV 801 pumps are designed to further enhance performance, while simplifying installation and maintenance requirements.

NOV Introduces New Reciprocating Pump

National Oilwell Varco (NOV) is introducing its brand new 415Q reciprocating pump. This is the latest product in its line of high-pressure positive displacement pumps. Designed to address the challenges of the saltwater disposal and water injection markets, the pump enhances the application capabilities of the existing 5-in. stroke models while providing increased volume opportunities and maintaining high levels of reliability and performance. The 415Q pump is available in aluminum bronze and with cast duplex stainless steel fluid ends. It also has an enhanced power frame and redesigned liquid end.

Caprari Presents New Horizontal Multi-Stage Stainless Steel Pumps

Caprari offers the new range of surface horizontal multi-stage pumps PMXT Endurance series completely made of AISI316 stainless steel. Very thick bodies, the choice of high performing materials and the innovative technical solutions make the PMXT Endurance pumps unique on the market for their performance, robustness and reliability - typical characteristics of Caprari products. PMXT Endurance pumps are also available in full duplex and full superduplex metal for extreme industrial applications. The Caprari axial thrust compensation system is present on the whole range, aiming to minimize the loads that persist on the bearings of the machine, giving the product a long life. The wear rings are replaceable and made in duplex with anti-seizing properties and are self-lubricated. This solution aims to minimize the gap between the impeller and the wear ring, improving hydraulic efficiency and avoiding seizure problems.

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