Chopper pumps help waste handling
31 Mar 2015
The Ford Engine plant in Dagenham is not the type of site you usually associate with an application for a Vaughan chopper pump because these heavy-duty pumps are more likely to be found operating at sewage treatment works around the UK.
However, motor manufacturing, like any major process involves its own unique solids pumping challenges.
For example, how to handle the difficult combination of swarf, cutting oils and coolants being collected from huge CNC machines operating on engine and transmission manufacture.
The origins of the application began in the late 1990s when Vaughan supplied an initial trial pump to a Michigan-based OEM filter systems manufacturer.
The pump was to be tested to see how it would perform against the conventional method of handling waste material and coolant collected from CNC machines.
The design and operational characteristics of the Vaughan pump provided an effective, all-in-one combination of shredder and pump which could handle all the ingredients of the machine waste, affectionately known as ‘pump backs’ in the industry.
After four years of validation and ongoing collaboration between Vaughan, the filter systems engineers and Ford Motor Company’s transmission and coolant specialists, Vaughan succeeded in being chosen as the preferred type of pump for the waste handling applications.
Fast-forward to today and Vaughan’s Huntingdon-based UK distributor, P&M Pumps, has supplied 74 bespoke design V3M ‘pump back’ pumping systems for similar waste handling applications at Ford’s UK engine plant sites at Dagenham and Port Talbot.
Through experiences at numerous UK waste water treatment and manufacturing sites, P&M Pumps has been able to demonstrate that Vaughan chopper pumps are an extremely effective option on the most challenging solids pumping applications.
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