Ferrier Pumps has brought about a successful solution to a tricky wastewater application at a new chicken processing plant in Scotland.
With washdown water containing feathers, faeces and sawdust, achieving the required flow rate was critical, as was the selection of a pump that could cope with the difficult solids.
As part of its design, which included two screens, pipework, control panels and flowmeter, Ferrier Pumps (established 1981), brought in a submersible Chopper Pump from Landia, as Peter Ramsay, Sales Engineer, explained:
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“Critically, we knew that if the minimum self-cleansing velocity could not be not maintained for this packaged pumping station, then the solids in the pumped product would settle out causing blockages”, he said.
“We’d also seen from previous experience that the Landia Chopper Pump is extremely effective and reliable – even when having to deal with very hard-to-handle solids such as feathers. We’ve had no issues at all. It really is the best pump for these challenging applications”.
Operating at 1500 RPM, the submersible Landia Chopper Pump installed by Ferrier Pumps is designed with its classic external knife system that relentlessly chops solids before they get inside the pump’s casing – continuously reducing particle sizes for the benefit of the process.
Landia
01948 661 200
www.landia.co.uk
Ferrier Pumps
0131 553 4001
www.ferrierpumps.co.uk
Landia Ltd
- 0194 8661 200
- info@landia.co.uk
- http://www.landia.co.uk
- Waymills Industrial Estate, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1TT GB
About us
Landia's headquarters are located in Lem, which is how it has been since 1933. Today, Landia has subsidiaries in England, Germany, Norway and the US, and a sales office in China. In addition, Landia products are sold in 45 countries worldwide. Landia supplies pumping and mixing solutions to many different industries, with the most important ones being agriculture, wastewater, biogas plants and the fish industry. In general, you will find Landia's products wherever there is a difficult medium to be pumped or mixed. Landia survives by selling quality solutions in close partnership with the customers.
Landia is not a supermarket where customers select products from the shelves. Our technical sales people are always in close discussions with customers, which ensures solutions that work. For Landia, quality in every phase a matter of course, and we have been ISO9001 certified since 1994. Quality also means that many of Landia's products have been in operation for 20-25 years even though the operating conditions may be extreme. In that way, Landia's customers achieve the lowest lifespan costs, while resource consumption is minimised, which further results in a positive impact on the environment.
Where we supply to
Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, South America, North America
Industries we supply to
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