Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
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A truck wash down facility at an oil extraction operation is using rotary lobe pumps to move oil/water/silty slurry to an oil/water separator. The oil and chloride content is unknown since operations have not started yet, but there will be salty water used for wash down. Currently, the wetted parts of the pump are going to be cast iron (about 1/2 price of stainless steel), and the lobes will be Viton. Operating at 450 gpm, 25 psi, using rotary lobe over centrifugal to avoid emulsification. Has anyone selected pumps for similar operations? And should significant deterioration be expected with cast iron?





RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
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RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
Have you considered separating out the soils and oil prior to pumping. Huber makes grit separating systems that will accomplish that.
http://www.huber.de/fileadmin/01_Produkte/03_Sanda...
http://www.huber.de/fileadmin/08_HUBER_Report/01_n...
RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
http://www.weirpowerindustrial.com/products__services/pump_products/screw_centrifugal_pumps/wemco-hidrostal_prerostal_pump.aspx?tab=features
You can use this pump to pump all your sludge from your pit to your oil/grit to your seperator system.
RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
RE: Wetted Parts for Oil/Water Slurry
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.)