Why EDDY Pumps Are Better – Highlights
This video shows how EDDY Pump beats out traditional centrifugal pumps when it comes to tough slurry and abrasive materials. EDDY Pump is the at the heart of all of our featured dredge pump equipment including the Remote Operated Subdredge, Diver Operated Pump and a Excavator Attachment Dredge Pump.
The Problem With Pumping Sewage & Wastewater
The most common issues are wastewater system pumps being clogged by flushable wipes, baby wipes, and feminine products.
Dealing with a clogged pump or pipe is never fun. When the blockages involve sewage and other forms of hazardous waste, routine cleaning chores can become a health hazard. Keeping sewage pump stations and treatment plants running smoothly not only saves money, but it also results in higher job satisfaction among the maintenance team, in addition, to help keep the city running smoothly.
It’s not just the unusually large size of solids that make sewage pumping and wastewater treatment handling so challenging. The nature of the solids in question also plays a role in the likelihood of the formation of clogs. Sewage from toilet facilities is particularly likely to form clogs due to the use of toilet paper and flushable wipe and feminine products. While most toilet papers break down by the time the material reaches a sewage pump, flushable wipes tend to clump together due to their long, thin shape and tough fibrous texture.
Combine these easy to snag solids with malleable mixtures that act like clay when caught against another item and you can easily understand why sewage pumps can bind up so quickly and completely. Even with care, many sewage pumping stations find themselves replacing their primary pumps annually or even every few months due to the intense amounts of wear and tear on the equipment. If the pumps manage to run for a few years without replacement, it’s usually due to extensive cleaning routines that involve many hours of extra labor per month. Chopper pumps are ideal for sewage processing applications because the internal chopping mechanism breaks up large solids before they reach the pump. Add smaller solids to the large internal capacity of the EDDY pump design and you have a winning combination for avoiding sewage clogs in even the most challenging systems.
Currently, EDDY Pump only deals with municipal and industrial clients, as we focus on heavy-duty and high volume industrial applications.
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Dredge Project Consulting
- Easier to install and maintain, the horizontal slurry pump, a type of dredge pump, allows for quick access to pump components, making repair jobs straightforward. During repair jobs, pumps are completely disassembled for thorough inspection. All components are carefully inspected, and any parts not meeting standards are replaced. After reassembly, the pump is tested to ensure reliable performance. These steps help extend the service life of the hydraulic pump and maintain equipment reliability. EDDY Pump can also provide dredging project managers to oversee sediment projects and remediation projects, ensuring that all aspects of the dredging project are managed efficiently and in compliance with environmental regulations.
- Requires more room, due to its larger footprint compared to vertical
- Implementing best management practices and evaluating management alternatives are essential for effective material management in any dredging project.
Vertical Slurry Pump
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Less smaller footprint, allowing the dredge pump to be implemented in hard to reach jobs
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More versatile, can be cable hung straight down and inserted directly into medium to pump target material. The vertical slurry pump can also be used in mechanical dredging operations where minimal water addition is required.
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The vertical slurry pump is typically situated within the excavator or dredging system so that it is optimally positioned for efficient material handling and performance.
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More difficult to repair and tougher maintenance
Sewage Pumps No-Clog Design
Commercial Sewage Applications
The majority of sewage pumps are installed at wastewater treatment plants and similar facilities, but they have many other uses. Large facilities like hotels, campgrounds, and amusement parks often rely on these cast iron sewage pumps to move sewage to a distant holding tank or far-off sewer connection point. Cast iron sewage pumps with a motor are also used to transfer untreated raw sewage from a catch tank to either the septic system or directly to the city sewer.
Any bathroom facility located below the sewage connection or septic tank will require some kind of powerful cast iron pump connected to a motor to lift the slurry to its intended destination (sump pumps also work). Receiving stations that handle deliveries from septic tanks and portable toilet trucks also need these sewage pumps to distribute the raw sewage to the various storage or processing areas.
Eddy’s Slurry Pumps Work As Powerful Sewage Pumps
These sewage pumps are also required for other types of effluent and sewage that aren’t generated by human or residential sources. The same well designed cast iron slurry pumps used for bathroom facilities work well for moving valuable manure slurries around, water which often features solids even larger and more challenging to pump than those commonly found in sewage water.
Manure processing can yield valuable fertilizer products while protecting local waterways from toxic runoff water, but only if the treatment facility has the right slurry pumps for separating and moving the various raw materials. The extensive line of pumping products also includes sump pumps, which are known for their reliability, efficiency, and versatility in various water and wastewater removal scenarios.
The Power of the EDDY Pump For Sewage and Wastewater Facilities
The Eddy Pump – The Ultimate In Sewage & Effluent Pumps
The EDDY Slurry Pump isn’t like other pump products or designs created for effluent, water and sewage handling. Only this pump is designed to harness the power of the eddy current to create a strong flow and plenty of suction with a small and open rotor. Since there’s no need for the rotor to pass close to the internal walls to generate pressure, very large solids (and raw sewage) can flow through without getting caught and causing a clog.
Superior Service In High Viscosity Applications
The EDDY pump’s ability to handle a slurry with up to 70 percent solids and a high viscosity makes it ideal for handling sewage from bathrooms featuring ultra-low flow fixtures. Even with low levels of water, sewage pumps manage to move the same amount of solids of distances up to one mile. With the right design, solids of up to 11 inches can pass without clogging the pumps. There’s no need to deal with constant unclogging, fussy filters, or regular replacements due to abrasion or corrosion when you choose the EDDY pump.
Chopper Option
Optional Upgrade
A chopper upgrade can be fitted for use in sewage pumping applications. Unlike most other pump applications the EDDY Pump works without comminutors, macerator or grinders because the tolerance is large enough to pass all material without any issues. But for large scale municipal use, we recommend cutter to break down flushable wipes and other non-organics.
Why use a chopper pump?
EDDY Pumps can easily pass objects such as large waste and non-organic material on its own, but without a chopper addon, clogs can potentially happen downstream. For sewage applications, we recommend using a chopper addon to prevent clogs in your downstream applications. Call us to discuss.
Conclusion: Cost Reducing Sewage Pump
The EDDY Pump has been utilized by the US Navy for over 20 years on almost all classes of Navy ships for grit, waste transfer and sewage pumping. The reason is that this pump design saves the Navy tens of millions of dollars every year in corrective action, overhaul, and downtime. To see a Total Cost Analysis done by Lockheed Martin on the cost savings of 25 EDDY Pumps versus the leading centrifugal pump over 4 years, please click HERE to View the Analysis. Also see our resources section for white papers and more education.
Enjoy less clogging, lower maintenance costs, more uptime and a happy project manager. Call us to match the right sized pump to your job. View the pump page here.
How EDDY Pumps Move High Solids and Sewage?
Our patented pump technology outperforms all centrifugal, vortex and positive displacement pumps in a variety of the most difficult sewage pumping applications. Our pump design allows for longer intervals between maintenance, which translates to increased output, more uptime and higher profits.
Sewage Pumps and Options for Wastewater Management
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