We wish our customers and their families a fun and safe 4th of July holiday. Please note that the Cornell offices will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th, in observance of Independence day. Our office will reopen on Thursday, July 5th.
Cornell’s Energy Efficiency Can Pay back in Months
For more than 70 years, Cornell pumps have been among the most efficient in the industry. Our engineers take care in designing robust pumps with excellent hydraulics.
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The efficiency difference can be significant though—the Cornell 6RB pump, with 88% efficiency, has a Brake Horse Power of 124 versus another manufacturer’s pump at 78% efficiency and 139.9 Brake Horse Power. If using electricity at 11 cents per Kilowatt hour, the Cornell Pump would save more than $3,000 a year when run 3000 hours a year. Over five years, the savings is more than $20,000!
Our Pump-Flo sizing program offers examinations of run conditions/ efficiencies of Cornell clear liquids and solids handling pumps.
Pump-Flow Curve Screen
Pump-Flo energy cost calculator
Memorial Day 2018
Cornell Pump Company will be closed on Monday, May 28th, in observance of Memorial day.
Cornell Pinewood Derby & Open House
May 5th was Derby Day in Kentucky; it was also Derby Day in Clackamas! The inaugural Cornell Pump Pinewood Derby was held for both children and adults, in conjunction with an open house to show off employees’ work place to their families.
Winners of the Cornell Pinewood Derby -Clockwise from top left: Alec, fastest car; Drew, most innovative; Savannah, best design; Adult’s league fastest car and best design, Michele Lukowski.
There were thrills, spills, fast cars, and elation. In the end, awards were given for fastest cars and best designs in both the child and adult categories. Every child participant received a goodie bag, and there were plenty of games, food carts, and giveaways for the whole family.
Cornell hosts great events throughout the year. Right now, we have several open positions; if you or a friend would like to join our team, you can be on board for our next family outing, the summer picnic!
Seal Replacement Video
Cornell’s new instructional video explains how to replace a seal on a pump with a threaded impeller. Useful in manure, as well as some industrial and mining applications, the video can be viewed in conjunction with many of the other instructional videos on Cornell Pump’s YouTube channel. We cover a range of topics, from replacing wear rings, changing bearings on refrigeration pumps, how to install packing and lantern rings, pulling impellers, and more.
If you have a Cornell Pump maintenance topic you’d like to see covered in a video, please let us know; e-mail info@cornellpump.com. We’re shooting new videos every month!
Cornell Self Primers Work Well in Tomato Trash Wash
Cornell self-priming pumps replaced electrical submersibles in a tomato processing plant. The pumps are used in the trash wash phase, where tomatoes are cleaned prior to being processed. This wastewater stream carries leaves, grit, dirt; stems, and other materials.
The electric submersibles were unreliable, often failing, and backing up the wastewater into the facility. Given the need to expeditiously process the tomatoes in the short growing season, the delays were very costly to the plant.
The Cornell 6-inch self-primers worked flawlessly.
Cornell Pump in Kentucky
Cornell Pump, in conjunction with our distributor Endesol, is in Lexington, Kentucky for a regional Pump School.
Dozens of engineers and water operators are learning about municipal applications today.
To see an expanded school offering, check out our annual Pump School in September.
Signaling the Future
Cornell Pump has new, illuminated signs on our building. Featuring the Cornell Pump logo, company name, and tag line Efficient By Design, the new signs replace signs that had been installed when Cornell moved into the building in 1999.
The signs glow with halo LEDs at night, making Cornell Pump more noticeable and easier to find in the long Oregon winter. They also look sharp, with an architectural flair.
You can see the Cornell Pump factory in Clackamas, Oregon. If you attend our annual pump school, you can come inside for a tour!
Wednesday March 14 – National Potato Chip Day
Chip photo from 123RF Stock photos, Kwasny221 photographer.
Crinkly, chunky, BBQ, salt & vinegar—there are many ways to enjoy potato chips. Cornell Pump helps in the irrigation, hydro transport, and frying of America’s number one snack food.
Facts about National Potato Chip Day:
- Chips are rumored to have started in 1853 in Saratoga, NY. A picky restaurant patron kept sending back his potatoes as too thick and limp. The cook cut the spuds as thin as possible and fried them until crisp—rather than complain, the customer loved them. What we know as potato chips, were called Saratoga Chips and appeared on area menus in the 1850’s.
- In the early 20th century, chips were packaged as a snack food.
- Flavored chips appeared in the 1950’s.
- Chips are over a $15 Billion a year industry.
Learn more about Cornell Pumps for Agriculture.
For information about hydro transport pumps and hot oil pumps, such as those used in making potato chips, download the Cornell Food Processing Pumps Brochure.
Enjoy some potato chips today—which is also National Pie Day in honor of 3.14; the first three digits of Pi π. (You can google a potato chip chocolate pie and have the best of both national days….)
SP Series is Sweet in Hawaiian Sugar Plant
Much Better Up Time and $50K Flush Water Cost savings per year
A sugar cane producer in Hawaii was having issues with previously installed slurry pumps, transporting wastewater through a production plant. The liquid was abrasive, and the customer used rubber-lined slurry pumps to deal with the sugar’s and plant fiber material’s tendency to scour the inside of the pump.
The installed pumps needed frequently maintenance/service shutdowns, and required flush water for the seals. For the application, the specific gravity of the sugar slurry was 1.05%, the TDH was 60’, the operational RPM was 470, and flow was 4,900 GPM.
Cornell Pump suggested our 10SP series because the customer preferred to stay with a slurry pump. The SP comes in metal and rubber-lined, 2”-12” discharge. Cornell suggested the metal liner to better deal with the abrasion. With the specific gravity and percentage of solids in the application, Cornell’s MP or N series pumps in hardened material could have also handled the slurry.
Three 10 SPs were installed in 2014, and a fourth was held on standby. The spare was never used, even though the 10 SP’s ran 24 hours a day, every day. The seals were not replaced, because they never leaked.
Pumps installed in Hawaii (Piping was changed at the suggestion of Cornell Pump)
The Cornell 10SP pumps delivered an estimated $12,000 a year in saved maintenance. An even bigger cost savings accrued to the plant by not requiring flush water. A typical 10” pump needs about eight gallons a minute of flush water for a mechanical seal. At 0.004 cents a gallons (average US price per gallon of municipally supplied water) that may not seem expensive. Eight gallons a minute run 24 hours a day, is 4.2 million gallons of flush water, at an average cost of $16,800 a pump per year. The three pumps saved over $50,000 a year in flush water costs.
The pumps operated for a little over two years, and save the producer over $130,000 in operational costs. The plant ended up shutting down, because of overall world sugar prices.
Pumps provided to the sugar plant:
- Four 10SP Cornell Cycloseal® slurry pumps.
- Frame mounted with 150HP-1200rpm motors.
- Cast iron housings
- Chrome iron liner with chrome impeller
- Chrome iron back plate with Cycloseal®
- 150HP 230/460 volt, 1200 rpm TEFC motor
- Steel overhead motor base with belts, shives, and guard.
- 2 year warranty
Cornell Videos
Seal Replacement Video
Replacing Packing in a Pump
Wear Ring Replacement Video
New Assembly Video
