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Peristaltic hose pump pays for itself through reduced maintenance and downtime
Peristaltic hose pump pays for itself through reduced maintenance and downtime
One of Europe's leading recyclers of IT and telecommunications equipment is Engelhard Industries. Products recycled include computers, printers, fax machines, photocopiers and mobile phones with recovery of precious metals - such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium - from circuit boards and other electronic components being part of that process.
A high-temperature scrubber burns off the plastics that cannot be economically recycled, however, this results in fumes laden with hydrochloric acid, which have to be neutralised with a caustic liquid. The resulting liquor gradually becomes contaminated with mainly carbon particulates until it reaches the point where it has to be filtered and processed, ready to be reused. Twice a day, hundreds of litres of this highly aggressive, hot (50-60°C), particulate-laden fluid have to be pumped from the scrubber to the filter bed in under one hour.
Engelhard purchased a Watson-Marlow Bredel high flow SPX peristaltic pump to remove the fluid to be filtered. Over one year on, the Maintenance Supervisor is extremely pleased with the pump's performance, saying: "We have not even had to change the hose yet, let alone any other components. Compared with what we had before, it has been unbelievably reliable - totally maintenance-free".
Watson-Marlow Bredel Pumps on Tel: 01326 370370 or Fax: 01326 376009 or visit us at www.watson-marlow.co.uk