Crisafulli Hydraulic
Pumps and Power Units
The
Tyumen region, Siberia, Russia, is the center of Russian oil production.
For many years, well drillers worldwide, including those in
Siberia, constructed earthen sumps or ponds to hold waste byproducts of
the drilling process. The
practice is now fallen out of favor and cleanup of old drilling sites has
begun. In the Tyumen region,
there are hundreds of sites where reclamation of leftover wastes, and
cleanup of the sumps, is now mandated.
Pumps will perform an important role in remediation projects taking
place in Siberia.
A Russian oil company is cleaning up the residuals, including drilling mud
and chemicals, at well sites in the Surgut area. They hope to reclaim
resources in the form of oil from these sites. A Canadian-based oilfield
equipment supplier, EPCO Ltd., of Calgary, Alberta, was authorized by the
Siberian oil company to source equipment for the reclamation project.
After the product evaluation phase was completed, select
manufacturers were invited bid for the order.
EPCO chose Crisafulli, known as a manufacturer of engineered dredges &
pumps for sludge & sediment removal, to provide the required hydraulic
pumps and power units. The project award was made on March 3,
1997.
The customer received fully integrated pumping and power systems.
Fifteen Crisafulli trailer mounted, diesel-hydraulic power units
act as portable, self-contained power sources.
Each Crisafulli Power Unit was equipped with a Perkins 4-cylinder,
water cooled diesel engine complete with an emergency safety engine
shutdown system. Maximum
hydraulic output per power unit is 40 GPM @ 2,000 PSI. Dual flow control
valves enable each power unit to run two Crisafulli submersible hydraulic
sludge pumps.
The harshness of the
customer's industrial application dictated use of Crisafulli's rugged duty
designs, with each pump constructed of abrasion-resistant (400 Brinell
hardness) steel and equipped with a tungsten/carbide mechanical shaft seal
to prevent contamination of the hydraulic system.
All thirty pumps are three-inch discharge diameter, each capable of
transferring 500 GPM @ 15' TDH.
Responding
to the customer's concerns, the systems are engineered for cold weather
starting conditions not unlike those in eastern Montana during early
winter (temperatures to minus 40 degrees F, minus 20 degrees C).
In June, 1997, Mr. Quinn of EPCO, the customer's designated agent, inspected the
systems at Crisafulli's manufacturing plant, and these made in Montana
pumping systems were tested and shipped to Siberia. SRS Crisafulli, Inc., founded in 1966, is one of a few select
manufacturers of specialized, engineered pumping and dredging systems in
the United States. From its
beginning, SRS Crisafulli has served agriculture with pumping equipment
for irrigation, flood control and dewatering.
The past decade has been a period of planned, controlled growth for
this Montana company, as it has moved into international industrial and
municipal markets for liquid waste handling. The Glendive, MT
manufacturing firm has installed specialized pumping or dredging systems
in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Saudi Arabia,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Korea, and Venezuela.
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Three
Crisafulli Hydraulic Submersible Pumps
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Crisafulli Power Unit
After 40 years, customers still say "Crisafulli is
the best." Crisafulli Pumps, Dredges, and Power Units are customizable - Choose
special materials of construction, power source, bearings and
suction.
Each
Crisafulli Pump has a Crisafulli Impeller Inside - your assurance
of quality, performance, reliability and long useful life.
Contact
us today at the factory or through one of our dealers or reps to order
your Crisafulli Pump, Dredge, and Power Unit or to discuss your special applications to
enable us to custom design your Crisafulli equipment.
The wide range of performance and application capabilities of the rugged,
reliable Crisafulli Pump, Dredge, and Power Unit product line, each model
of which can be customized to our customer's special requirements,
provides our customers with what we call "The Crisafulli
Advantage."
As a Montana manufacturer proud of
our roots in the American West,
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