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Fear of the Gear
01-05-2021
In the world of positive displacement pumping, reduced speed operation is a common requirement. High viscosity liquids, shear sensitive liquids, abrasive liquids, or any combination thereof require t...
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Copper Mining Operation Optimizes Sulfuric Acid Handling
12-16-2020
Copper is fast becoming a critical resource as the world shifts to an increasingly lower carbon footprint, and with the growing demand comes a need for more efficient processing (i.e., refining) of th...
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It Flows Both Ways: a guide to running an internal gear pump in reverse
12-03-2020
One of the biggest limitations of a traditional centrifugal pump is its inability to reverse the direction of flow. By design it can only be run in one rotation and one direction of flow. Liquid enter...
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Chocolate Plant Eliminates Leakage with O-Pro® Barrier
08-02-2019
A major producer of chocolate confections in the eastern United States had been operating many Viking pumps on a variety of confectionary liquids for decades.
Many of these gear pumps have shaft pac...
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Banana Pumps and Star Gears: A guide to pump industry slang
09-18-2019
A gentleman once contacted me to let me know that he’d cracked a head, an impressive, but not entirely unheard-of feat. When I asked how this had happened he admitted “well, I was wailing on it prett...
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Pressure & Vacuum Pumping Application Concerns
08-15-2019
In the world of gear pumps, it is common to have liquid handling applications where pressure and vacuum are of concern. So, we wanted to share our perspective and recommendations, to help with making ...
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Viking Pumps load vacuum gas oil onto barge in cold water environment
04-12-2019
An Engineering firm recently purchased three large internal gear pumps through a local distributor in northern Illinois. In this case, the pumps were intended to be a prime mover for loading their cus...
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Driving Natural Gas with Glycol Pumps
05-20-2019
Industrial gear pumps have many uses in a wide array of market applications—ranging from food processing to pouring asphalt. A growing area in need of specialized gear pumps is in the oil and gas indu...
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Use of Bitumen & Asphalt: The heat is on
08-30-2021
Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid, or semi-solid form of petroleum. Asphalt is man's earliest organic engineering material. Its application as an adhesive a...
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Viking at the Museum: The Ice Breaker Mackinaw
09-09-2021
On December 17, 1941- just 10 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor- the United States Congress approved the construction of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw WAGB-83. The purpose of the ship was to for...
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