
Chemical industry
The pumping of aggressive, viscous, or potentially explosive media requires pump technology that meets the highest standards of safety and reliability. In the chemical industry and in the oil and gas industry, industrial pumps are indispensable for continuous processes, high operational safety, and economic efficiency.
We offer pump solutions that are specially tailored to these industries – from corrosion-resistant chemical pumps and precise gear pumps for viscous liquids to ATEX-compliant systems for potentially explosive areas. This ensures that your production runs reliably, downtime is avoided, and operating costs remain under control.
Applications
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Conveying and transferring chemicals
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Precise dosing of process media
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Filling and emptying of tanks and containers
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Circulation in closed loops
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Sampling for quality control
Processes
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Conveying and dosing in reactors
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Supply and discharge of tank farms
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Use in evaporators and distillation units
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Support of mixing and stirring vessels
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Process integration in continuous chemical production
Fluid
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Aggressive acids and alkalis
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Highly viscous resins and waxes
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Liquid hydrocarbons
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Complex mixtures and solvents
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Silicones and elastomers with special conveying properties
Pump types
Process engineering / Process technology
Pumps are required in various areas of process engineering. This includes distillation, mixing and stirring processes. By conveying chemical media, they take on transfer tasks as well as dosing tasks. Feed pumps and dosing pumps are faced with a wide variety of challenges. The chemical industry often has high requirements in terms of abrasive substances, corrosive media, explosive or environmentally hazardous liquids. In addition to pure chemical resistance, other regulations in the sense of ATEX and/or TA-LUFT must also be observed. High and low temperatures also place special demands on the construction and design of positive displacement and centrifugal pumps. Plant-specific features such as process-related low NPSH values also require a precise examination of the pump design in close consultation with the engineering, production engineer or plant builder. As German manufacturers of specialized, customer and application-specific pump technology, the BRIDGE Industry Consulting pump partners are experts in these topics.
Oil & Gas / Petrochemicals
When it comes to pumping hydrocarbons on and offshore, the petrochemical industry makes extremely high demands and sometimes has its own regulations such as the API regulations for pump manufacturers. Typical transfer tasks are, for example, filling or emptying tank farms, pumping over or feeding a downstream process. But also dosing of additives, chemicals as well as the promotion of residues for recycling or disposal. Here, too, particular attention is paid to explosion protection according to ATEX and consideration of environmental conditions such as marine suitability Typische Transferaufgaben sind z.B. die Tanklager Befüllung oder Entleerung, das Umpumpen oder die Beschickung eines nachgelagerten Prozesses. Aber auch Dosierung von Additiven, Chemikalien als auch die Förderung von Reststoffen zur Wiederaufbereitung oder Entsorgung. Auch hier gilt besonders Augenmerk dem Explosionsschutz nach ATEX sowie der Berücksichtigung der Umgebungsbedingungen wie z.B. Marinetauglichkeit
Plastics industry
Polymerisationsprozesse spielen im Breich der Chemie eine große Rolle, Sie bilden das Ausgangsprodukt für viele Nachfolgeprozesse. Auch hier kommen zum Teil toxische Medien zum Einsatz, die entweder hoch- oder niedrigviskos gefördert werden müssen. Ob Pumpen von Rohstoffen oder Kunststoffschmelzen, jede Aufgabe erforderte indiviuelle Pumpentechnik, die den jeweiligen Anforderungen gewachsen ist. Bedient werden sowohl Prozesse für Neuprodukte, sowie auch zukunftsorientierte Recyclingsprozesse wie Pyrolyseanlagen.