The order of 8 million rand (about 1.28 million US dollars) was signed for three 1600 mm single-stage vertical turbo pumps (each weighing 17 tons). The contract comes from a US engineering management company. The three pumps will be installed on a dam 200 km north of Basra in southwestern Iraq as part of a pumping station renewal project, replacing the pump that has been in use for 30 years.
These pumps have a head of 20 meters and a motor power of 1300 watts, delivering 4000 cubic meters of media per second. Cast iron drums and stainless steel shafts and impellers are all made of standard materials.
There is a limitation in the installation process that these pumps need to be placed in the existing sump of the pumping station and connected to the existing pipeline. APE engineers have broken through this limitation and they changed the manufacturing process to meet This requirement has created a special foundation to adapt to the existing foundation. Sales manager Dave Murphy said that APE can be delivered in 22 weeks, while competitors need 40 to 45 weeks at the earliest.
APE Pumps builds a large pump
APE Pumps, based in South Africa, completed the manufacture of the largest water engineering pump in the company's history.