Power plants are obviously in the business of selling electricity but a simple fact that most plant personnel fail to consider is the less electricity you use to run your power plants, the more electricity you have to sell! Why needlessly use power, even if it is generated on site, when it can be sold instead? Because it is made within the fence line does not make it any less valuable; just ask your customers.

Over the past 30 years, we have worked with most of the power companies in our region to coat your pumps primarily with efficiency enhancement in mind. Properly selected and installed coatings confer several significant advantages.

Firstly, they save the component equipment from the effects of corrosion and erosion. Over time, this means capital improvement budgets are not disturbed. By protecting the component equipment, in this case pumps, from the ravages of daily use your maintenance costs go down. For instance, a local muncipality used to inspect their pumps every four years. Currently they are able to use eight year inspection intervals since Belzona coatings so effectively stave off erosion corrosion.

Secondly, efficiency gains of 4% to 7% above design efficiency are possible by coating your pumping equipment with Belzona 1341 (Supermetalglide). Supermetalglide is hydrophobic and this characteristic is through-thickness meaning it does not rely on a relatively short lived surface effect of the coating. The last mil of 1341 is just as effective at increasing fluid flow as is the first mil. For one utility on the Ohio River that meant a savings of $28,000 a year…..for one pump!

Thirdly, unlike conventional mechanical work done to refresh pumps, 1341 slows the effects of erosion and eliminates corrosion meaning a pump and its efficiency will degrade far more slowly than an uncoated pump. Your pumps can spend the majority of their lifecycle operating at or above the efficiency they would deliver as new. Uncoated pumps start losing efficiency the moment they begin to corrode.

I’ve attached a radio interview from the City of Des Moines, Iowa Water Works which speaks to the rebates offered by the Utilities and how this municipality was able to coat their pumps and get all of their money back through rebates and the rest of their return on investment back in record time. If utilities are willing to pay for these projects at their customers’ sites, why not capitalize on the same technology yourself?

October 16, 2006 Dave VanBlarcom, Des Moines Water Works

We hope you’ll take advantage of our services and experience in these applications.

Stephanie Rumford
srumford@rumfordgroup.com
937-435-4650
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