Aussie pool pump innovator to help China build world’s largest pumps
Supa-Stelth Pumps, a wholly owned subsidiary of New Fluid Technology Pty Ltd (NFT), has signed a joint venture agreement with Jiangsu Hengfeng Changai Energy Conservation Technology Co in Nanjing, China.
According to NFT director Brian Bambach, the Nanjing consortium (which includes some of China's largest industrial companies) will also be sourcing funds from the Chinese Government in Beijing to build what might be the world’s largest easily fabricated water pumps.
These will be different to the giant fixed site pump stations that have relatively low lift. The new pumps will begin at 1000 tonnes per hour working up to a colossal 55,000 tonnes per hour.
“These new pumps - based on 'solid body rotation of fluids' - offer a 60 per cent energy saving for China and the world, due to us borrowing two things from the swimming pool industry,” says Bambach. “The D curve for pools is conveniently adapted in other industries such as pumping water in industry, for example with steel mills in China. The second thing is the pre-fabrication and on-site fabrication techniques to build pools. This is possibly due to the unique and simple design that does not require volutes or diffusers.”
The largest new pumps will be on-site pumps made from reinforced concrete, with the impellers most likely cast from concrete. The smaller pumps and impellers will be from bronze and steel/concrete.
The joint venture also plans to build what Bambach describes as the world’s first axial flow centrifugal water pump. The ultimate plan (based on the success of the smaller pumps) is to use these pumps to build inline pumping stations to shift an incredibly large volume of water from southern China to Beijing.
