World Pumps

General Processing

Oil-free flow of CO2 benefits research centre

The first CO2 cooling system equipped with Lewa pumps was developed and produced by the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef in Amsterdam for the Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment....

Water & Wastewater

Standby duty for historic station

The original Abbey Mills A pumping station is a Grade II listed building, built between 1865 and 1868, and its ornate pumping equipment is Grade I listed. Following the commissioning of the Abbey...

General Processing

New test facility in Naples, Italy

Table 1: Pumps within the scope of Regulation 547:2012 EC.

Chemicals & Abrasives

Safety and containment in chemical handling

In addition to being widely used and potentially dangerous or hazardous if mishandled, many chemical compounds are also extremely expensive. If a leak were to occur during the handling or transfer of...

Chemicals & Abrasives

Seal-free design eliminates downtime

The C24i's leak-free design also goes hand-in-hand with Organik Kimya's commitment to sustainability and environmental awareness in its polymer-production processes.

Power Generation

Bringing electricity to rural locations

Traugott Ulrich, KSB AG vice-president of start-up projects said: “For locations where there is a relatively constant water supply, but power supplies are unreliable or even non-existent, PaTs are a...

Looking towards global horizons

Electrical technology The adoption of new electrical technology is one area where there are likely to be breakthroughs. “Up to now, the pump market has been very stable, however, it is beginning to...

Water & Wastewater

Speed and skills solve Texan sinkhole disaster

Having successfully eliminated the possibility of wastewater and effluent flowing into Lake Granbury, the pressing concern was to assess the damage and formulate a programme to replace the damaged...

General Processing

Extending the life of pumps and fans

ODR has become popular in applications such as pump farms in refineries, and can make a huge difference in performance: at SKF, we have seen that ODR has helped increase mean time between failures...