Business lends Cornell pump to Thai Government to help ease historic flooding
The Problem: Flooding destroying lives and disrupting businesses. Monsoon flooding of Thailand began in July 2011, and continued for months—pushing southward from the highlands to the capital. More than 500 people died and the lives of 2 million more were disrupted. A pump distributor in Bangkok was preparing a Cornell 14NHG-RP-F18DB pump for a customer […]
Michigan County Selects a Cornell Pump to Replace Failing System in Pump Station
The Problem: Previous installation of vertical line shaft and dry pit pump design. The station was becoming increasingly expensive to maintain and operate. Adding to maintenance issues were the pump station’s age and location—it had been operating for more than 30 years within a floodplain. The station was flooding several times a year, requiring costly repairs […]
Construction Company Increases Aggregate Production With Cornell Technology
Saves more than $30,000 annually through new installation efficiency and productive increases A large California construction company boasting more than 5000 employees had a seepage problem. As one of the top ten producers of both aggregate and sand/gravel products, the company wanted to extract aggregate from around a gravel pit that frequently filled with water, […]
Hydraulic Subs
Canadian Mining and Power Operator Utilizes Hydraulic Submersible Pumps in Unique Applications Cornell’s Hydraulic Submersible 6NNT Pumps Put to the Test—and Deliver! Abrasive slurry, temperature swings of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, remote locations…any of these things would test a pump system. A Canadian mining and power company faced all three obstacles to transfer solids […]
Redi-Prime® Helps Uptime and Costs on a Slurry Pumping System
In 2011 a local mining operation in the Pacific Northwest approached a Cornell Distributor for a solution to recurring pump failure/maintenance issues. The mine had been using a leading manufacturer’s self-priming trash pump to move light slurry, with a specific gravity of 1.1, from a collection area to a silt clarifier. With a design flow […]
Diamond Mine In Northern Territories Tests Dewatering Pumps
Cornell 16NHG22 Redi-Prime® Pumps Move 2.6 Billion Gallons of Water in Seven Weeks. Diamonds are among the most expensive items by volume in the world. Finding where they are is usually difficult; extracting them can be even more difficult. In the far Canadian North, a diamond consortium was investigating promising geological formations for diamond deposits. […]
Canadian Distributor Puts Sp Slurry Pump To The Test
The new Cornell SP slurry series was tested in both the lab and the field. Cornell knew the pump was tough, surviving 1500 hours of lab testing, where the volute on the 4 inch Slurry Pump was polished and dented in more than 200 locations by a stream of 30 percent silica sand changed every […]
Tomato Plant Relies on Self-Primers to Make the Sauce
Food Processing Company swaps out “unreliable, dangerous, and cumbersome,” electrical submersibles for Cornell 6ST. While displaying Cornell pumps at the Sacramento Food processing show, The Cornell distributor for Central California was approached by the maintenance team from a well-known tomato processing facility in Stockton, California. This plant processes thousands of tons of tomatoes during the […]