Petroleum Transfer Pumps

A client started out asking me to add some modifications to the aluminum housing of one of his companies Petroleum Transfer Pumps. After reviewing the changes that he wanted to have made I offered some suggestions that might further improve his product. Although I did not have any experience in this field, I felt confident that I would be able to help his product perform significantly better. Problem solving ability and common sense transcends familiarity when it comes to improving a current design. He agreed and this resulted in me redesigning his entire product line.

The first thing that I did was to refine his current design on three different sizes of his pumps. This redesign resulted in a significant increase in efficiency in all three pumps.

Then I suggested that we try to redesign them completely starting from scratch. The client agreed and the resulting product was amazing. The entire shape of the pump was changed in every way. It was given the ability to be run in either direction and hooked up in either direction. There was a special bypass valve that is easily serviceable and highly resistant to dirty fluid and particular debris. It was given a special modular construction that allowed it to be powered by PTO, a PMDC motor, a BFDC motor, and was also able to be geared to multiple ratios including s special high reduction cluster option. All of these modules would fit any pump and could be easily serviced, replaced, and/or interchanged in the field. I also completely redesigned the impellers and added a special 9-wiper floating, impeller sealing system that is revolutionary to the industry. This pump design is still not released to the public. We expect its performance to be unprecedented.

The client then asked me to create a special hybrid pump that used a modified version of his existing housing with the special new internals that I designed in the new experimental pump. Although putting the new internals in the old housing was not optimal, I knew that it would increase performance over what they had. The end result was astonishing. His vacuum had increased by 85%-110%. The parasitic loss was reduced by the new, more efficient design and the pump was able to be geared higher enabling it to pump 45%-70% more volume with the same horsepower. The pumps were quieter and had a much longer life cycle. They were also easier to service and less expensive to build.