Collaborating with Tata Power, Kirloskar Brothers has installed the world’s largest circulating water pumping system at the company’s Mundra UMPP (Ultra Modern Power Plant). A mammoth 10.5 million litres of water is circulated with the help of KBL’s 10 Concrete Volute Pump sets every minute.

Corrosive and abrasive, hot and aggressive — such are the character traits of the gas liquor to be handled in a pressurised coal gasification plant. The pumps used, though, parry the attack with their intelligent design and high-quality materials.

Even high viscosity pumps come to their application limits very fast, when trying to pump high-viscous, non-flowable substances. The newly developed drum emptying system with a follower plate from Lutz exceeds these limits and the infinitely variable operation enables particularly gentle pumping of pastes and non-flowable substances in the food, pharmaceutical and industrial sectors.

Aseptic filling processes for pharmaceutical liquids, lyophilised and biotech products must comply with strict hygienic conditions. The Macofar VF liquid fillers offer sterility assurance by their unique slim design. Manual interventions are restricted to a minimum during production. Product safety and ergonomic criteria are at the focus of this technology.

China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has chosen Siemens Water Technologies to provide a system for wastewater treatment at its refinery in Anqing in the Anhui Province of China.

KSB in India has launched Amarex N, a new cost-efficient low-weight pump set which is compact enough to be installed in narrow sumps and tanks. The pump is designed for handling all types of waste water in municipal, industrial and commercial applications.

What is going on at hygienic pump specialists Hilge, now present in the market as GEA Hilge after the acquisition by the GEA Group? Recently, the company gave the trade press a glimpse into its goals and objectives and also introduced a new hygienic pump.

 — In recent years, formulations based on pellets have been the trend. New technologies make it possible to circumvent property rights for active ingredients and are therefore very popular with pharmaceutical customers. But which technologies are the most important?

A contract manufacturer archives more flexibility implementing a flexible and mobile Fillingssystem: For the first time, Bosch implemented a movable peristaltic pump filling system with Prevas in China. This allows the customer, a leading pharmaceutical contract developing and manufacturing service provider, to get Fast-track-market-release. Thanks to the new design, the company is able to switch between the existing piston pump filling station and the new peristaltic pump filling system.

The use of Kynar Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) is gaining traction across industries where chemicals are extensively used, thanks to the special attributes of this material that have proven its viability in various applications.