Get Longer Life from Your Internal Gear Pumps Over the last several months I have run into several user misconceptions about internal gear pumps. These three common errors can reduce the life and capabilities of your internal gear pumps. First: Bump starting the pump to check rotation. This is a common practice among maintenance crews. […]
Effective Ways to Protect Your Pumping Process As a pump applications engineer, oftentimes I find myself immersed in characteristics of a fluid being pumped or customer flow requirements or a myriad of other pump package design conditions. While all these details are pertinent to delivering a properly functioning package, I must also remind myself that […]
Hygienic Series Gear Pump are now available! Viking’s Hygienic Series positive displacement pumps are designed to conform to international standards for hygienic processing of foods, beverages, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and personal care products where the pump will be subject to frequent cleaning. These pumps are designed for Clean In Place (CIP) or Clean Out of […]
ARO Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps When it comes to Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps (AOD) there are a lot of manufactures to choose from: Graco, Sandpiper, Wilden, Yamada and ARO to name a few. All of these brands claim to be the best, and while they each have their advantages, when it comes to overall performance, […]
Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps CRUSH the Competition Several months ago I visited a customer in middle Georgia with the ARO fluid products rep. The customer we visited was using several different size Sandpiper AOD (Air Operated Diaphragm) pumps in their plant. They were having some serious issues with stalling, freezing up, and not getting long […]
The Right Viking Pump for your Job Some things can be made to work; but just because it works doesn't mean it's the best approach. I had a customer in Columbus who was metering vegetable oil to spray on baked goods on a conveyor belt. The excess oil would drain to a pan and was […]
Eluding the Inevitable Downtime Production Loss At least a few times a week, I run into a common thread among customers. They are in a rush to find a replacement pump because they are currently down and losing $$ every second their production line sits being, well, unproductive. I, of course, research all options available […]
Basic Pumping Principles 102 Last spring I was visiting with one of our customers in Middle Georgia. They were having two problems with an application involving a Viking L4724 Positive Displacement Internal Gear pump. Basically the pump was being used to recirculate their material in a large storage tank. However, they also used it to […]
Let Our Experts at Pye Barker Troubleshoot Pump Problems One of the major problems facing industry today is the limited number of people with sufficient skill and experience to diagnose and rectify the basic problems plaguing positive displacement pumps. Another difficulty is that the same lack of skill and experience is creating many of these […]
Converting an AOD Pump to an Internal Gear Pump Many customers are becoming energy conscious and are reviewing existing production equipment to look for ways to save energy. One major item of consideration is the cost of compressed air. For fluid transfer requirements, many customers will use an Air Operated Diaphragm pump. For a typical […]
