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Chemical,
Oil and Petroleum Industries
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Disc pumps are being used successfully
in an extremely wide range of industries. The pumps are
ideally suited to hard-to-pump applications, where the disc
pump's unique minimal contact pumping mechanism excels at
handling abrasive, viscous, high solids, and heavily air and
gas-entrained fluids - without breakdown and with almost zero
wear. The pumps are also perfect for handling delicate and
shear sensitive products, where the minimal contact ensures no
damage to the product and no emulsification.
Shear sensitive
chemicals: eg polymer emulsions, latexes, crystals, shear
dilatant, shear thixotropic Viscous fluids: eg waste
sludge, tank bottoms, black beauty, paint skins, oil
sludge, asphalt, etc Abrasive fluids: eg
borax, drilling mud, sand slurries with up to 80% solids,
crystals, etc Air or gas-entrained
fluids: eg crude oil, chemical froths, DAF sludge High temperature or
pressure processes: disc pumps can be manufactured to
API-610, 8th Edition
Pulp and Paper
Manufacture
Chemical recovery: eg
green liquor dregs, black liquor soaps, clarifier sludge,
etc Paper stock and pulp: up
to 18%+ density with no dilution and no external fluidizer
required Paper coatings: polymer
emulsions, latexes, kaolin clay slurries, titanium dioxide
slurries up to 80% solids, bentonite solutions, etc Effluent and powerhouse
areas: eg lime sludge, knotter rejects, ash slurries, DAF
sludge, etc
Wastewater Treatment
and Disposal
Viscous and high solids
fluids: all types of municipal and industrial waste
sludge, sewage Abrasive fluids: eg lime
sludge, waste from mining, sand slurries with up to 80%
solids Air or gas-entrained
fluids: eg DAF sludge and other types of anaerobic sludge Large and/or stringy
solids: by widening the spacing between the discs in the
Discpac, solids up to 20" [50mm] can be pumped
Food Processing &
Sugar Manufacture
Viscous and high solids
fluids: eg molasses, sugar slurries with up to 80% solids,
pet food sludge, brewery waste, slaughter house waste, etc Abrasive fluids: eg
sugar slurries, meat waste with bones, blood, oyster shell
slurry, etc Delicate and shear
sensitive foodstuff: eg citrus oil, corn kernels, sugar
crystals, rice, fruit, etc Large and/or stringy
solids: by widening the spacing between the discs in the
Discpac, solids up to 20" [50mm] can be pumped, eg
whole chickens
Other
Areas of Industry
Metal industry: eg steel
slag, quench water, metal powder slurries, acid
recirculation, etc Mining and mine
dewatering: eg drilling mud, graphite mine tailings,
chalk, diamond mining, etc Ceramic, glass and
stone: eg rock slurries, fiberglass, ceramic slurries, etc Pharmaceutical industry:
eg living cells, plankton, bacteria, whole blood, catalyst
solutions, etc Agrilculture:
agricultural sludges and slurries with high solids, and
varying solids sizes Utilities: all types of
viscous, abrasive and/or corrosive fluids in power plants
and utility plants Hazardous materials: eg
nuclear waste
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