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New pump technology

New pump technology
Supavac pumps reliably transfer sludge, hard solids, trash, slurries and even dry sand, where the use of submersible, centrifugal and diaphragm pumps can result in blockages, spills, excessive maintenance and downtime.

Advanced vacuum loading pressure discharge, a patented technology from Australia, is the key to the successful operation. With no rotating parts or electricity and with no moving parts in contact with the flow, extremely high reliability has been achieved.

These air-powered solid-transfer pumps, with high levels of vacuum and airflows, can alternate between lean and dense phase conveying. And unlike any other pump, they automatically function as either a self-priming pump with high, 25-inch Hg vacuum, or as a high lift vacuum system with high airflow, as the material or operation demands.

These fully automatic pumps, with solids transfer rates from 10 to 60 cubic metres per hour and higher, can achieve fluid suction lifts up to 25 feet dry static, through 200-foot horizontal lines, and air flow vacuum pneumatic recovery up to 75 feet vertically. The ability to discharge up to 2,900 feet horizontally can eliminate the need for vacuum trucks for onsite transfers.

The three-, four- and six-inch units are compact and fully enclosed for zero discharge, environmental compliance.

Installations include: lagoons; digesters; thickeners; reservoirs; underwater cleanup; sumps; oil and gas drilling; dry conveyor spillage; pneumatic transfers; environmental spills; intrinsically safe for underground and x-p operation.

Applications include: muck; sand and rock; abrasive and corrosive slurries; hydrocarbon sludge; drilling mud waste and cuttings and hazardous waste.