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ISSUE 2 2022 • WWW.OILREVIEWAFRICA.COM
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY Paul Davis, Wanner International’s managing director, highlights the importance of sustainable pumps in the oil and gas industry, and how Hydra-Cell pumps help the oil and gas industry in reducing the carbon footprint. Deblina Roy reports. Deblina Roy (DR): What are the challenges that the oil and gas industry is facing due to the lack of sustainable pumps? Paul Davis (PD): The global shift towards more sustainable energy is driving technical advancements and developments within a range of industries operating pump technology, the oil and gas industry is no exception. Currently within industries which use pumps intensively, pumps can account for as much as 50% of the energy usage. This makes it vital to choose the right pump and fully maximise energy efficiency. With sustainability at the forefront of a lot of businesses minds optimising energy usage has never been so important. In contrast to Hydra-Cell, alternative pump technologies suffer with inherent internal losses such as mechanical friction and internal ‘back flow,’ which increases as internal parts wear and liquid viscosity reduces, starting to become less efficient as the discharge pressure goes above 10 bar and worsens with increasing pressure.
Reducing the carbon footprint is an important aspect of the oil and gas pumps.”
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Hydra-Cell seal-less pumps offer a cost-effective solution compared to other pumps.
DR: How do Wanner’s HydraCell pumps help the oil and gas industry in reducing the carbon footprint? PD: Wanner International is dedicated to enabling its customers to save energy and resources. The flexibility of the Hydra-Cell pump to handle many different liquids and many different applications enables effective repurposing, coupled with its high energy efficiency and reliability has a large role to play in reducing the carbon footprint. The Hydra-Cell pump’s true positive displacement action and minimal internal energy losses
achieve high efficiencies from pump shaft to hydraulic power; this combined with the wide range of flow rate controllability ensures optimum energy usage. We recently replaced a major US Oil and Gas companies existing Api674 plunger pumps with Hydra-Cell pumps to reduce Hydrocarbon emissions and operating costs within the Natural Gas Liquid transfer operation.
DR: How does Hydra-Cell stand out in terms of cost-effectiveness? PD: Not only do the Hydra-Cell seal-less pumps offer performance benefits they also
offer a more cost-effective solution than other pumps, such as APl 610multistage centrifugal pumps and traditional piston diaphragm process pumps. When compared with traditional APl 675 metering pumps, Hydra-Cell “pulse-less” metering solutions are best-in-class for Life Cycle Cost with lower acquisition costs, energy consumption and minimal servicing. Thanks to its hermetically sealed design the Hydra-Cell pump is able to reduce maintenance and repair costs, minimising the cost of spare parts when compared with other pumps.
