Pumping Soap, Not Bubbles

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The Solution: Flexible Sliding Vane Pumps

When it comes to identifying the best pumping technology for the handling and transfer of soaps and detergents, there is really only one standout choice: positive displacement sliding vane pump technology. For more than a century, sliding vane technology has been setting the standard in reliable, cost-effective and efficient performance for soap and detergents productions.

Sliding vane technology delivers a number of crucial benefits to soaps and detergents manufacturers, particularly when compared to internal gear pump technology in the areas of reliability, product-loss prevention and environmental protection. The sliding vane principle of operation guarantees that a pump’s volumetric consistency will remain constant over the life of the pump. This is not always true for internal gear pumps, which are susceptible to constant wear due to the metal-on-metal design of the pump’s gears, resulting in a reduction in flow capacity.

Flexible and Reliable Performance: Advantages Galore

Simply put, sliding vane pumps offer significant performance and life-cycle cost advantages over other pump technologies when used in the soap and detergents manufacturing process. Among these advantages are:

• Superior Shear-Sensitive Product Handling — the smooth sliding vane action has no metal-to-metal contact, which reduces pump friction, eliminates galling and minimizes the agitation of the liquid while allowing for shear-sensitive handling of fluids and increased pump life.

• Superior Self-Priming and Line-Stripping Capabilities — the sliding vane principle creates unmatched vacuum capabilities that allow lines, tanks and pumps to be cleared of valuable product.

• Superior Volumetric Performance — unlike gear and lobe pumps that lose their volumetric efficiency over time, sliding vane pumps utilize self-adjusting vanes that sustain a pump’s volumetric performance, resulting in productivity gains and energy savings.

• Materials Selection — vane pumps are available with housings of stainless steel or ductile iron and a variety of vane materials that make them compatible with many of the fluids used in soap and detergents manufacturing processes.

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