Gorman-Rupp pump system helps company prevent blockage in waste pit

John Brooks Company helped yet another customer.

With years’ worth of customer success stories, John Brooks Company Limited has plenty of witnesses to its success and credibility. Case in point: a company that needed a new pump installation to stop blockages from occurring in its waste pit. With its application expertise, John Brooks Company recommended a system of Gorman-Rupp centrifugal pumps that resulted in lower cost savings, especially service and maintenance expenses, for the customer.

Strong enough for feathers

The company was expanding its facility and needed new self-priming pumps for simpler maintenance. The pumps had to be able to handle occasional solids, especially feathers, and to enable easy clean-out of the waste pit in case of blockage.

So the organization contacted Chris Chapman, an application expert with John Brooks Company, who worked with the consultant’s drawings and made relevant pump selections. Because the customer wanted a duplex Gorman-Rupp package, Chris recommended the Super T series of self-priming, solids-handling centrifugal pumps with the Eradicator option installed.

Users can achieve pump maintenance and inspections without having to pull the pumps out of the wet well with the Super T series, while also saving costs. For this scenario, standard off-the-shelf motors were available and could be used; most submersibles require proprietary motors that have long lead times and can be expensive. The large volute design of the Super T series enables automatic re-priming in a fully open system, with no need for suction or discharge check valves. These pumps boast capacities up to 214½ litres per second and heads up to 45 metres. They are available in discharge sizes of three, four, six, eight, or ten inches.

The Eradicator system has an aggressive, self-cleaning wear plate incorporating many notches and grooves, plus a patent-pending lacerating tooth that helps to break up stringy material and pass it through the pump without affecting performance or interrupting service. The user can remove a patented lightweight inspection cover to inspect the impeller. This innovative design highly reduced clogging and downtime for the customer.

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