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Glen Ellyn, IL - BLACKHAWK ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANY'S Anchor
Pump was used to successfully recover creosote oil from a
100-year-old wood preserving operation that produced wood
products. The creosote, used to preserve the wood, was leaked,
spilled, dumped and ponded on the site and had sunk into the
groundwater.
To clean up the site, pneumatic environmental pumps were
placed in wells to recover the creosote product. From the
start the pneumatic environmental pumps had a difficult time
recovering the creosote. Their flow rate was less than 8 oz
per hour. The pumps would clog, seals would deteriorate and
compressed air lines that went down the well to power the
pump would leak. The oil recovery wells had to be taken out,
on a regular basis, to be repaired or cleaned. Often a two-man
crew was required to maintain the operation.
The Blackhawk Anchor Piston Pump was chosen as an alternative
to this labor-intensive operation and to provide a more effective
way to recover the creosote oil. The Anchor Pump offered several
advantages:
all drive motor working parts located on top of the well make
the pump easy maintain and look at
top head drive oil well sucker rod pump that is more effective
at recovering thick oily liquid
smooth controlled flow recovery with the ability to tune the
speed and strength of the recovery to the yield of the formation
being pumped a plunger pump, with a reciprocation action,
that mechanically, actively recovers fluid from the bottom
of the well independent of liquid level in the well while
maintaining a constant flow recovery rate a drive motor on
top of the well to ensure that no compressed air enters the
well or comes in contact with fluid being pumped
The Anchor Pump was placed in a 250' thick, tar laden well.
Other pneumatic environmental pumps could only be place to
a 150' depth because the creosote was too thick for them to
pump. The Anchor Pump was specially designed to be low profile
at surface grade to fit into a protective doghouse. Its stoke
was 6" and I was set to pump 4 strokes/min. or 8oz/min.
Upon installation and start up, the Anchor Pump ran continuously
and after five days, it was pumping a water creosote mixture.
Initially the pump pumped thick no. 6 tar-like creosote for
4 days and on the 5th it started to pump oil and creosote.
The unit has allowed one man to run the system, requires
no down hole maintenance repairs and produces more product,
less disturbed and of better oil treatment quality than before.
Blackhawk Environmental Co. provides pumping solutions for
the environmental, landfill, groundwater and industrial markets.
Blackhawk specializes in manufacturing quality pumps and controls
for demanding pumping applications.
For more information,
please contact BLACKHAWK ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANY
21W161 Hill Avenue, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. Phone: 630-469-4916.
Fax: 630-469-4896.
Or email us.
For more
information about this pump and other Blackhawk Environmental
quality pumping and control products, call today
630-469-4916. |
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