Maintain-in-place pump

Maintenance downtime at compliance.

Thames Water's Bicester sewage treatment works has been reduced following the installation of two EZstrip maintain-in-place pumps from NOV Mono.

The plant's previous pumps, which transferred primary settled sewage sludge from four primary settlement tanks to a duty stand-by, were prone to blockages, causing significant down time.Mono's EZstrip pump can be stripped down and maintained-in-place in 30min. Bob Steptoe, site manager at Bicester Sewage Treatment Works, says: "The excellent maintain-in-place benefits of EZstrip have gone a long way to ensure that the challenging maintenance and repair issues caused by our old pumps are long gone.We are very happy with the Mono pumps and they are performing extremely well." The EZstrip pump range has a capacity to 165m3/h and 12 bar pressure.