Anna Ackerley

Factors to consider when selecting the correct corrosion-resistant centrifugal pump

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FLUID The most critical criterion is the suitability of the material selected for the fluid to be pumped. This is particularly significant as corrosion and erosion directly affect maintenance, repair, and downtime costs. In specifying or purchasing a pump, it is important to make sure that all wetted components are made of proper material. MATERIALS …

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TL-104 – Pump Moves Glue Easily

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Reprinted from PLANT SERVICES Paul Wnuk, General Manager Jim O’Bannon, Finger Jointer Supervisor, Sierra Lumber Co., Stockton, CA Morgan C. Larkin, Editor-West Sierra Lumber Company in Stockton, CA, manufactures components for wood doors for home building. The door framing is assembled using glued, interlocking finger joints, which are accurately cut and fit. A chronic problem …

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TL-107 – Pump Choice Supports Continuous Production at Hitachi

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Reprinted from ENGINEER’S DIGEST FOCUS ON FACILITIES In addition to an ultra-clean environment, the fabrication of high quality silicon wafers — submicron integrated circuits — requires dependable equipment to ensure continuous production. So, you can imagine the concern when maintenance personnel at Hitachi’s wafer fabrication facility in Irving, Texas, discovered that original pumps were not …

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TL-109 – Flexible Liner Pump Cuts Scrubber Maintenance

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Nonmetallic wetted parts handle 98% sulfuric acid, 50% caustic, and up to ½” solids with ease Reprinted from CHEMICAL PROCESSING Packed tower recirculating scrubbers made by Gaylord Foundry Equipment use 98% sulfuric acid and 50% caustic solutions as neutralizing agents in cold box processes to capture amine gases and sulfur dioxide. All components of the …

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TL-110 – Sump Pump Upgrade

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Reduces downtime for barrel reconditioner Burbank Drum & Barrel Co., Glena Park, TX, reconditions, grades and resells half-a-million, 55-gal. steel drums per year. The reconditioning and recycling process consists of these steps: grading drums for recycling or crushing, submersion in NaOH stripper for general drum cleaning, water rinse, de-denting, NaOH/steam flush, dry/siphon station, H•SO— power …

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TL-112 – Fluoropolymers & Custom Engineering Solve Bromine Pumping Problems

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Reprinted from CHEMICAL EQUIPMENT By Edward Margus, VP of Engineering, Vanton Pump & Equipment Corp. In the past 30 years, plastic pumps have come a long way in proving their economic and performance advantages to the CPI. An example of just how far pump designers have come in utilizing the latest advances in plastics can …

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TL-114 – How to Select a Non-Metallic Pump

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Reprinted from POLLUTION ENGINEERING By Edward Margus and Kenneth Comerford Pumps constructed of various non-metallic materials are widely used in wastewater and other pollution control applications. The use of non-metallic pumps for applications involving water and wastewater treatment, pollution control and other related services has been expanding at a dramatic rate for a variety of …

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TL-115 – Thermoplastic Pumps

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Reprinted from CHEMICAL PROCESSING By Brayton O. Paul, Technical Editor Plastics, alloys meet challenges of hydrofluoric acid etching Wheaton Glass doubles production without speedup, reduces rejects to almost zero. The Decora Division of Wheaton Glass Products, a division of Wheaton Industries in Millville, NJ, eliminated downtime, doubled production and reduced its output of rejected product …

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