What's new at ALLWEILER - at a glance

2022.11

Market: Industry

Application: Sewage treatment plant

Product: Progressing cavity pumps

SIGNIFICANT ENERGY SAVINGS THANKS TO
ALLWEILER PUMPS WITH PERMANENT MAGNET MOTORS

2019.07

Market: Industry

Application: Sewage Plants

Product: OPTIFIX

MAINTENANCE-FREE CONTINUOUS RUNNING WITH OPTIFIX

2019.05

Market: Commercial marine

Application: Scrubber pump

Product: NIM and MA-S

PARTNERSHIP INNOVATES NEW MARINE SCRUBBER PUMP APPLICATION

CIRCOR’S German entity ALLWEILER received big pump order to be installed in BILFINGER ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGIES’ (BET) exhaust gas cleaning system for ships.

2018.12

Market: Industry

Application: Continuos Monotoring Heat Transfer Application

Product: IN-1000

CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF PUMPS IN HEAT TRANSFER SYSTEMS

... for the movement of heat-transfer oils.

2018.07

Market: Industry

Application: Filter oil and cooling system pumps

Product: Three-screw pumps (TRILUB), Progressing cavity pumps, Centrifugal pumps

ALLWEILER PUMPS HELP ...

 ... EXCAVATE THE WORLD’S LONGEST TUNNEL 

2018.07

SAVINGS ONBOARD

IMPORTANT GERMAN SHIPPING COMPANY OWNERS CHOOSE ELECTRONIC PUMP CONTROL FROM CIRCOR

2018.07

SMART TECHNOLOGY BRINGS ENERGY SAVINGS AND MORE TO MAERSK-DRURY

New intelligent sea water cooling system controller offers green option for ship owner.

2018.07

EPC OPTIMIZES ...

... SELECTION OF CLOSED DRAIN DRUM PUMP

2018.04

CIRCOR AIDS EPC ...

...IN SEARCH OF BEST PUMP FOR VARIED, AGGRESSIVE LPG PROCESS FLUIDS

2018.05

NEW MODULE CARRIER FLEET

... OUTFITTED WITH UNIQUE BALLAST CONTROL SYSTEM

2018.03

CHINA NAVIGATION

NEW CARGO VESSELS CARRY ADDED GREEN ADVANTAGE – SEA WATER COOLING SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO SAVE ENERGY.

2017.05

Partners in high Quality and reliability

Centrifugal pumps in the production of frozen bakery products

Allweiler^®
Progressive Cavity Pumps:

A Reliable, Energy Efficient, Low Maintenance Alternative to Inclined Conveyers for the Duisburg-Kasslerfeld Sewage Plant

Challenge:

Determine the most reliable, low-maintenance and efficient solution for discharging digested residual sludge at the Duisburg-Kasslerfeld sewage plant.

The benefits

of Allweiler^® magnetically-coupled chemical pumps in process engineering

Challenge: Low-maintenance pumps with minimal leakage of chemically and physically aggressive materials.

Solution: Allweiler^® chemical standard pumps with magnetic couplings.

Results: Leak-free pumping with a service life that is two to three times longer.

Tremendous Savings On Board

speed control of seawater cooling pumps brings tremendous potential for savings to Hapag-Lloyd AG

As shipping rates drop and competitive pressures increase, shipowners are under tremendous pressure to reduce the operating costs of their vessels. Fuel is still the number-one factor for savings, even with today's lower fuel prices.. And because seawater cooling pumps are larger than required for slow steaming, shipowners will require even more fuel than they need with conventional pump control systems (only valves).

Continuous Pump-Monitoring

in Heat-Transfer Systems with IN-1000

Pump-monitoring in times of Industry 4.0 & IoT

High-performance ALLHEAT^® pumps from Allweiler^® are essential for moving heat transfer oils in many of their production processes. Top priorities in selecting a pump are the safety of employees and systems, system availability, and a low total cost of ownership.

Heat Transfer Pumps -

the heart of every wood press system

Challenge

Precise control of heating plate temperature; pumps with a wide performance range for both petroleum-based and synthetic thermal oils from a single supplier, thereby ensuring an optimally dimensioned pump for every system; high pump capacity at low speeds; maintenance intervals longer than one year; competitive prices.

Reliable Pumps

for landfill leachate

Challenge

Safe and – most importantly – reliable and disturbance-free capturing of environmentally harmful leachate. Long pump service life, even with abrasive components in the liquid; and high chemical resistance of all parts that come into contact with the liquid.

Workhorse Pumps

Keep Ipsen furnaces humming 20 years after initial installation

The reputation of manufacturers rides on the performance of their products. So to ensure the best quality for customers, they demand that the parts that go into their products must be reliable and work flawlessly.

That has certainly been the challenge for Ipsen International GmbH of northwestern Germany, the market leader in the manufacture of high-temperature furnaces. Today, Ipsen has installed more than 20,000 of these systems around the world. But in 1993, when Ipsen began building these systems, they were challenged with finding suitable pumps for these high-temperature furnaces.

Demanding challenges met

by Allweiler^® Pumps at Used-Oil Transfer

Puralube Germany GmbH operates two refineries according to the innovative UOP HyLube process. Total throughput is 150,000 metric tons per year with used oil as feedstock. The plants are located in the Zeitz industrial park, approximately 40 km south of Leipzig, Germany. Since beginning production at the world's first refinery of this type in mid-2004, the Zeitz site has been producing high-quality API Group II and III base oils. In late 2008, a second plant was brought on line at the same location. Each year, the two plants consume approximately 150,000 metric tons of feedstock. They produce about 90,000 metric tons of base oils and another 50,000 metric tons of other mineral oil products. Currently approximately 110 employees work in production, quality assurance, sales, and administration at this location.

Progressing cavity pumps at the Heimbach power plant

The operating principles and overall design of progressing cavity pumps make them suitable for universal use. One of their fields of application is the pumping of abrasive liquids that may contain solids, but also fibers. Sludges in sewage plants are one example. These pumps are also well-suited to metering. They generate a consistent and pulsation-free flow even when faced with fluctuating working pressures and liquid consistencies. Gentle pumping action, with low turbulence and minimal mixing of the pumped liquid, is another identifying characteristic of progressing cavity pumps.

Pumps from Colfax Fluid Handling

in Istanbul`s largest modern sewage plant

The metropolitan region of Istanbul currently has 15 sewage treatment plants serving nearly 20 million residents. The largest plant is located in Ambarli and is also one of the most modern and largest sewage treatment plants in Europe. German water and wastewater engineering firm
PWT was the project manager for this plant, designing and operating it since its completion in mid-2012, under contract from Istanbul’s Water and Wastewater Company (ISKI). Argus Makine, the Istanbul-based representative of ® the German pump manufacturer Allweiler , a brand of
Colfax Fluid Handling, handles maintenance and optimization of all pumps in the plant. Colfax Fluid Handling is a business of Colfax  Corporation (NYSE: CFX).

High-Performance Pumps from Colfax Fluid Handling

Pumping dewatered sludge across 70 M (230 FT)

The Hurma municipal sewage treatment plant near Antalya, Turkey is notable for several reasons. Its approach to sludge clarification, drying, and reprocessing, as well as the associated generation of heat and power, is unique in Turkey. Secondly, only a small number of plants use a
progressing cavity pump to move sludge to a dryer across such a long distance (70 m/230 feet).

Frequency-controlled pumps from Colfax Fluid Handling in machine tools

Pump applications for machine tools must fulfill special requirements in order to ensure efficent tooling changes. The pumps must supply each tool with cooling lubricant or cutting oil as soon as the tool has been engaged. Fluid volume and pressure requirements vary for each tool.

Rather than pumping excess coolants and lubricants in a loop, intelligent controllers adjust pump speeds to the precise volume and pressure. Smaller pumps and motors can be utilized, proving equipment savings as well.

Colfax CM-1000 "Smart Tech" for Efficient Sea Water Cooling Pumps

Colfax introduced earlier this year the CM-1000 Series, a smart technology designed to help monitor and control sea water cooling system pumps in a manner that senses water temperature and speed to optimize the pump use.

Savings for the shipowner come not only via fuel used to power the pumps (in some cases, up to 80% in fuel consumption reduction and 50% in maintenance cost reduction have been recorded), but also the benefit is an appreciable reduction of wear and tear on pump parts and maintenance.

Revolutionary Materials - Result in Long-Lasting Stators

Colfax Fluid Handling offers stators made of "Alldur^®" in progressing cavity pumps manufactured by Allweiler in Bottrop, Germany. These pumps have been used for decades in a variety of applications, including many sweage plants in Germany and other countries. They are characterized by their ability to easily pump liquids with a large proportion of dry substance and abrasive components. A variety of available designs and materials enable adaption of the pumps to specific liquids and pumping conditions. Now, with stators made of "Alldur^®", they are even more economical.

Crude Oil Pumps from Colfax Fluid Handling

OMV Austria Exploration & Production GmbH and its predecessors have been pumping crude oil in Vienna''s wine growing region for more than 50 years. Approximately 600 oil wells make up Austria''s Matzen oilfield. They pump an oil/gas/water mixture (approx. 90% water) through pipelines to a centralized live oil collection station.

In 2005 the company embarked on a comprehensive renovation of its entire infrastructure, including the network of pumps and 70 km of piping. The system takes advantage of the discharge pressure of the oil wells to pump the oil/water/gas mixture through new pipelines to the centralized Matzen extraction station. Thirty-one pumps from Colfax brand Allweiler replaced pumps from a variety of manufacturers in the individual stations. The tank farm as well uses large screw pumps ("SMH“ series) from this manufacturer for all qualities of crude oil.

Pumps from Colfax Fluid Handling Double Chinese Polyester Plant Production

Challenge

Expand a polyester plant within 10 months without a halt to production or compromising product quality.

Monitoring vibrations, mechanical seals, and bearings for safety and performance

With more than 70 years of experience in plastics processing, Switzerland-based Quadrant Group is a leading expert in a wide range of polymer materials and technologies for polymer conversion. In order to maintain a high level of quality in the production process, Quadrant''s heat-transfer pumps must work safely and reliably. These pumps are commonly subjected to high loads. At the same time, failure of a pump can have serious consequences, especially if hot oil escapes. The high loads on the pump are the result of high temperatures and large temperature differentials as well as decomposition reactions that may occur when the heat transfer liquid is subjected to excessive thermal loads.

Pumps for synthetic heat-transfer liquids 

As soon as the temperature in a heat-transfer system becomes too high for water, a plant operator must choose between petroleum-based or synthetic oils as the heat-transfer liquid.  When modern petroleum oils are used, systems with feed temperatures up to about 300 °C can stay in service for their entire service life with one filling and with virtually no maintenance. Once feed temperatures rise above 300 °C, only high-quality synthetic oils will be appropriate. Under these conditions, even minor temperature increases will have a decisive effect on the service life of the oils. An additional 10 °C commonly doubles the product''s specific rate of decomposition. When compared to petroleum-based heat-transfer oils, the amount of maintenance associated with synthetic oils is significantly lower.

Pumps are the heart of heat-transfer plants

Manufacturers in a variety of industries depend on heat-transfer plants to heat or cool their machines and apparatus. German firm heat11 GmbH & Co. KG specializes in heat-transfer plants of virtually all types. The chemical industry uses their installations for controlling the temperature of reactors and during the production of color pigments and liquid crystals. In the plastics industry, heat-transfer plants are essential for producing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and in the production of CDs and DVDs. But recently, according to heat11’s Managing Director Dietmar Hunold, heat recovery has become an increasingly important application. 

Peristaltic pumps for moving filtration water

The Eversburg sewage treatment plant is designed to serve 250,000 population equivalents. But in 2005, its actual load was closer to 309,000 population equivalents (COD 80 mg/l), pushing the nitrogen input level above the plant''s capabilities.

To deal with this situation, engineer Peter Sikora organized a team to develop a process-based alternative to biological elimination of nitrogen. The pumps moving filtration water into the nitrogen elimination plant are a critical aspect of the concept. In 2006, the plant began using Allweiler peristaltic pumps as an alternative to the centrifugal pumps from another manufacturer.

Temperature and leak monitoring boosts safety and reliability

Amcor Flexibles Singen GmbH is a manufacturer of printed and unprinted aluminum-based packaging materials and an experienced technical applications specialist. High-performance drying equipment is essential for Amcor’s production process. Having centralized thermal oil pumps that operate safely and dependably is critical for the drying process.

Flexibility is key: Screw pumps in oil-supply systems  

Flender AG, a subsidiary of Siemens AG, has been using screw pumps from Allweiler AG for more than 25 years. Flender’s plant in Voerde, Germany (in the industrialized Ruhr region) manufactures gear units for extruder systems and vertical mills. The pumps supply the gear units with oil that is needed both for lubrication and for cooling. Large vertical mills require as much as 2000 l/min in order to achieve the required cooling capacity of 400 to 500 kW. In extruder gear units, pump capacity is usually 1200 l/min and cooling capacity is approximately 600 kW.

Progressing cavity pumps for pumping chemically aggressive liquids during biodiesel production  

Progressing cavity pumps reflect an established design with decades of usage in many industries and applications. Production of biodiesel and biogas is a relatively new application where progressing cavity pumps are increasingly utilized. In the past several years, Allweiler AG has supplied pumps for a large number of biodiesel plants. In addition to fulfilling the two requirements mentioned above, this manufacturer has another major advantage: it produces its stators in-house at its own plant. This allows them to select from up to 20 different materials as needed, while also having the ability to produce stators in common dimensions and materials quickly and economically. These capabilities have proven to be extremely valuable for serving the German-Austrian firm PPM GmbH.

Durable ALLWEILER pumps for biogas engineering  

ALLWEILER AG’s Bottrop plant specializes in manufacturing progressing cavity pumps and peristaltic pumps. These products are capable of pumping virtually any liquid, including those that are chemically aggressive or mechanically abrasive. They can even handle fibrous additives during continuous operation. ALLWEILER pumps ensure long maintenance intervals, minimal production interruptions, and a low Total Cost of Ownership. Marchfelder BioEnergie GmbH uses ALLWEILER pumps in the production of biogas from organic waste.

Progressing cavity pumps in the production of dry pet food

Progressing cavity pumps from Allweiler AG have been standard equipment in food and beverage production for many decades.Mera Tiernahrung GmbH, a German pet food manufacturer, selected these pumps in 2004 for use in a new plant. They had had good experiences with progressing cavity pumps in their old plant, and their plant builder was also quick to recommend them. Mera uses a variety of plant and animal-based raw materials to produce high-quality dog and cat food at their highly advanced production plant. The company''s motto is "Five stars for four legs".

Problem-free pumping of crystal mush with Allweiler progressing cavity pumps  

The Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG (CFB) (Chemical Factory Budenheim) produces precursors and ingredients for a wide range of a variety of final products. CFB has developed its own solutions and processes in order to crystallize various phosphates and to dry it afterwards. In this process the pumps play a central role in pumping the crystal mush from the preparation tanks into the rotary pipe, and with that, for further processing. The crystal mush is highly abrasive, very viscous and in part very hot. In the food and beverages industry progressing cavity pumps from Allweiler AG have for decades been part of the standard production equipment.

Pumps for bitumen and wax   

Moving and processing petroleum-based products involves special challenges. Pumps used in this activity must be capable of moving liquids that have very good lubricating properties as well as liquids containing abrasive components. Depending on the particular process step, high discharge pressure or high capacity may be needed. Finally, viscosity of the pumped liquid can vary from finished, flowing petroleum products to highly viscous liquids like bitumen. 

At Nyrosten Korrosionsschutzmittel GmbH & Co. of western Germany, Allweiler’s screw pumps have been in continuous service for decades.

Pumps used during tunnel construction: Long service life is crucial   

"Years of reliability is our first priority," according to engineer Albert Feisst, the director of liquid engineering who is responsible for all pumps used in Herrenknecht AG tunnel boring machines. Headquartered in southwest Germany, Herrenknecht is a global market leader in its industry. For more than 30 years, pumps from Allweiler AG have played a key role in these machines. Some tunnel boring machines are the size of a house and contain nearly every type of pump manufactured by Allweiler AG.

Allready-Box brings security to production of bioenergy  

Animal feed manufacturer Futtertrocknung Mindelheim eG of southern Germany has been operating a co-generation power station since 2008. This system gives the Mindelheim animal feed company the most modern and efficient process available for producing power in a co-generation biomass plant.

The heart of the power plants are thermal oil pumps from Allweiler AG, a pump manufacturer based in Radolfzell, Germany . These pumps feed hot oil at temperatures up to 350 °C into a heat exchanger where the silicon oil is heated to the point of vaporization. Having centralized thermal oil pumps that are safe and dependable is critical for maintaining reliable energy production.

Pumps in lubricant production 

A major business segment at Hermann Bantleon GmbH is the development, production, and sales of lubricants. At its plant in Ulm, Germany, this company starts with high-quality base oils and produces both universal and customized lubricants according to its own formulas. Customized products are often the best way to meet special requirements in cutting and non-cutting production processes. Pumps of several different types and sizes play a major role in the manufacturing processes at Bantleon. For nearly 30 years, this company has relied on Allweiler AG of Radolfzell, Germany for the pumps it needs.

Allweiler pumps in exhaust gas treatment systems in ships

As environmental regulations become more stringent, waste gas treatment systems are growing in importance. H+H Umwelt- und Industrietechnik GmbH of central Germany has been using Allweiler progressing cavity pumps as a core component of these systems since 2003. The company has been manufacturing catalytic waste gas treatment systems since 1998.

Joint German-Polish sewage plant satisfied with Allweiler pumps after 12 years

In May 2010 the Gubin sewage plant celebrated its twelf-year anniversary. This plant processes wastewater from the cities Guben and Gubin, located on opposite sides of the Neisse River. It is the only German-Polish project of this type to operate successfully for the long term. Major elements of the plant include 17 progressing cavity pumps and two macerators from Allweiler AG.