Process Water Pressure Pumps from Kelair Pumps Australia

The Pressure is on!

As most LNG facilities across Australia are found in semi-remote to remote locations, there is a limit to the storage space available for equipment and spare parts. This was the case at one LNG gas facility, where an associated cement works required an effective process water pressure pump solution.

According to Rudi Jahrig, Industrial Sales Engineer at Kelair Pumps Australia, the client requested pumping equipment which had a high redundancy and would require the least amount of pump spare parts.

"To adhere to the site's requirements, we chose to install a series of uniform Lowara eSV Pump Sets with Hydrovar controllers. This meant installing single, dual and triple pump sets but fitting them all with the same pump.

Typically, if there was no limit on pump spare parts, we would have installed different pumps. However, by adjusting the pipework of the Lowara eSV pumps, we were able to adhere to both the plant's performance duties and spare part limits," said Mr Jahrig.

The dual and triple pump advantage

The advantage of selecting the dual and triple pump sets, says Mr Jahrig, is that if one pump within the unit fails, there will still be one or two pumps working. This allows the plant to continue to operate.