Posted by Paul Moore on 14th November 2024
DXB Pump & Energy has designed and launched a brand new 6″ workhorse pumpset, the DE400/30, for the UK quarrying trade, which is particularly centered on lowering prices and emissions for quarries. Constructed utilizing its modular DXB2 cover, the pumpset makes use of a Stage V Deutz TCD 2.2 three-cylinder 55 kW engine full with the newest turbocharged and after-cooled expertise, optimising the ability supply to the Cornell pumpend at any velocity between 1,200 and a couple of,000 rpm.
The Deutz engine is managed and managed by the in-house designed DXB management panel with built-in telemetry system permitting the operators to have full management and monitoring each remotely or on the pumpset itself.
Utilizing the compact 6611T excessive effectivity pumpend with 80% effectivity and 76 mm solids dealing with, the pumpset has a greatest effectivity level of 400 m3/h at 30 m (3 bar) head however utilizing solely 12 litres of gasoline per hour while pumping as much as 600 m distances by means of 200 mm polypipe.
Designed to function along with lengthy vary gasoline tanks, the brand new 150 mm pumpset can work remotely on massive quarries the place fuelling is undertaken maybe solely as soon as every week by upkeep groups supported by monitoring & telemetry programs that textual content or straight message the quarry operators instantaneous data on the well being of the engine and pumpset throughout operation 24 hours a day, 7 days every week.
Quarry managers or supervisors can get extra data despatched on to their pc indicating not solely its location but additionally its well being and environmental impression by means of monitoring gasoline consumption and CO2 emissions for reporting in ESG experiences.
With 4 massive entry doorways and DXB ‘Hotbox’ design that mounts the DPF and exhaust system in its personal secure zone, servicing each 500 hours is completed simply with particular entry factors being simply reached by service engineers with out restrictions seen on different designs with inside DPF mounting above the engine.
Simon Ruffles, Managing Director of DXB Pump mentioned: “This pumpset is a powerhouse of efficiency to be used on quite a lot of quarry functions the place pumping larger heads can be utilized for pumping out of deeper sand and gravel quarries or higher distances to processing crops with out the necessity for a number of pumps – it’s a sport changer for these utilizing bigger crops with elevated tonnes per hour output.”
He continued: “We centered on the applying of sand and gravel the place trendy washplants want round 300-450 m3/h on the plant to scrub the tonnage seen on trendy quarries and the truth that the water sources had been far away. This pumpset now offers quarries the potential to produce that water with the bottom gasoline consumption and emissions seen in the marketplace right now.”
