Hygienic Progressing Cavity Pumps for Edible Oil Transfer

Manufacturer of Agricultural, Fruit and Food Machinery

An international manufacturer and designer of agricultural, fruit and food machinery,  with UK headquarters approached us as they required a pump manufacturer and supplier to work alongside their technical and design engineering department to specify the correct pumping technology for all their products. Their goal was to find a UK based company that could not only supply the equipment required to install on their machinery but to provide full technical support to their UK engineering team and also work in conjunction with the project managers to provide support at commissioning and installation stage if required.

Our customer was having difficulties communicating with their current suppliers, they had too many suppliers and this was causing a lot of issues for them, which in their eyes was not possible to avoid as they were using many different pump technologies for the various fluids they process. These include fruit juices and vegetable oils as well as waste materials, hence dealing with only one manufacturer was not going to work. We welcomed this challenge with open arms.

Our Technical Project Managers as a Single Point of Contact

As North Ridge Pumps offer several pump technologies, we offer the most appropriate pumping equipment for your application rather than offer a single pump type which may not provide the longevity required for your process.

After meeting with the project engineering manager and their senior design and installation engineers, we decided that given the technical expertise required to deal with this customer, it was best for one of our technical project managers to be their first point of contact for all their commercial and technical queries, needless to say, it was the correct decision as not only is it easier for our customer to have a single point of contact but this also means they now have answers to their queries in a much more timely manner.

Our Nova Rotors Hygienic Progressing Cavity Pump Selection

We supplied our customer two of our North Ridge DXC1L1-AISI-316L, hygienic progressing cavity pumps, also known as Mono pumps or eccentric screw pumps, this was one of the first few products we supplied to this customer. The units are being used to handle crude and filtered soy oil, also called soybean oil. Firstly, we recommended that our customer changed the pump type being used for their filtered oil as they were currently using a centrifugal pump. Due to the potential changes in temperature and viscosity depending where in the world their equipment was installed it was unlikely for the centrifugal pump to have the same performance from region to region, thus a positive displacement pump was a much better solution for their system.

Both pumps can cope with the potential change in temperature and viscosity as well as being able to handle solids up to 12mm, giving them additional peace of mind. Our DX and JX sanitary progressing cavity pump range is extremely versatile, they can be used with highly viscous fluids with viscosities up to 1,000,000 cSt but also thin products such as milk, fruit juices, wine etc. furthermore they have various accessories available, including; mobile trolley, built-in hopper, CIP connection integrated into the pump body, dry running protection, bypass valve, control panel, inverter, heating jacket, grinder and others upon request.

Some of the main benefits of our DX and JX progressive cavity pump range are:

·         Food grade EHEDG and 3A certified

·         Excellent for shear sensitive fluids due to low pulsations

·         Excellent at pumping fluids containing solids in suspension

·         Incorporated bearing lubrication system

·         Reversible flow up to 3 bar as standard, Up to 12 bar with hydraulic balance

Specific details of the pumps supplied to our customer are as follows: