3 more ways to ruin your pump A couple of months back I shared with you three all too common mistakes I see our clients’ maintenance teams make that damage their pumps and shorten their lives, leading to costly repairs, more downtime and unnecessary replacement. So if you have budget to burn and really want […]
A Vital Lesson In Double Checking Your Pump Specifications (you’ll be glad this didn’t happen to you). A while ago now, we were approached by an engineering firm (who will remain nameless for obvious reasons) to quote on a pumping system for their customer on peanut butter. The engineering firm had been engaged to design […]
Viking XPD 676 API Compliant Pump Viking has just stepped up promotion of their new XPD 676 range, so we thought it would be a good time to review their offerings for chemical, petro-chemical oil and gas process applications – the XPD 676 pump series – the first internal gear positive displacement pump to be […]
On The Front Page of ‘Processing’ Magazine! One of Pye-Barker’s pump suppliers – ARO was featured on the front cover of ‘Processing’ Magazine. United DMS (the largest silver-bearing film recycler in the United States) worked through several other unsuccessful alternatives, before using ARO’s pumps and monitoring systems to drive their fluid recovery systems. They have […]
Pumps are a lot like the human body. Keep them healthy and they will provide you with a lifetime of good health and worry free living. In all the Krav Maga classes that I teach see this as well, the students who take the best care of their bodies, get the best performance out of […]
Viking Motor Speed Pumps I’ve just gotten my hands on some of the new Viking Motor Speed Pumps. And frankly I’m fairly impressed. For Pye-Barker’s clients these look like they are the perfect product for applications where you are pumping low viscosity liquids at high speed and capacity. What these pumps are ideally suited to […]
Just recently the team here at Pye-Barker got their first look at the Wright Flow Technologies’ Revolution Pumps. So I sat down with the team to get everyone’s opinions of the pump. The Revolution Pump is Wright Flow’s latest offering in the hygienic pump category. It is EHEDG Certified, is 3A listed, FDA and USDA […]
Using an ARO Diaphragm Pump for Powders We have a customer who does custom chemical mixing for pesticide and herbicide manufacturers. The additives used to produce these products come in both powder and liquid form. Usually the ingredients are mixed with water in large mixing tanks. The product is then moved to a smaller tank […]
Hydrocarbon Engineering Magazine Raves About Viking's New XPD 676 Pump Refineries, petrochemical plants and their EPCs have had limited choices for positive displacement (PD) pumps that comply with API 676 design standards until recently. While many pumps claim to ‘meet the intent’ of the standard, or ‘comply, with exceptions’, Viking Pump has developed a new […]
Air Operated Diaphragm Pumps for Dosing and Metering Many of my customers in north Georgia who produce coatings, printing inks and light weight chemicals and typically use air operated diaphragm pumps are always asking me what we can offer for metering, dosing or being able to remote operate their dispensing operations. Most of these customers […]
