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Xylem’s holistic solution of mixers and pumps supports efficient mine slime transport – from sump to surface disposal
One customer, operating a hard rock nickel mine in Ontario, needed an efficient and reliable solution to transport its mine slime from an underground sump back to the surface while ensuring continuity in production and minimizing downtime.
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Remote Pumping Solution helps Mine Operators Reach New Depths in Harsh Environment
A customer in Perú needed to drain water as its large open-pit mine operation reached as deep as 1,200 ft (365 m) below the surface. The discovery of more copper in the mine, and an expected excess of water during rainy summer months also prompted the company to act. They sought a remote solution for monitoring and controlling their pumping system, particularly as routing electrical power became more difficult the deeper they dug....
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Xylem’s Flygt Concertor Saves $20,000 Per Year in Maintenance Costs at Coal Fired Power Plant
Operators of one of the largest coal fired power plants in the US based in Michigan, were looking for an efficient, robust and reliable pumping solution to move sludge water from each of the plant’s four sumps.
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Xylem’s quick response restores critical water supply to North Carolina community during COVID-19 outbreak
Xylem Rental Solutions helped a North Carolina community restore water service quickly during the COVID-19 outbreak with a temporary replacement, using a Flygt submersible pump, after a permanent pump failed.
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Intelligent wastewater pumping eliminates clogging and cuts energy use at Heathrow Airport
Flygt Concertor was trialed at Heathrow Airport to solve chronic clogging and delivered clog-free pumping while cutting energy use by 53%.
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Remote monitoring & controls for unmanned reliability
Xylem was tasked with designing a seep collection system to collect water from a low volume seep through the wall of a decommissioned fly ash pond. The sump was located in an active river floodplain that flooded with as little as 1-2 inches of rain, so the customer needed an automatic shutdown when the river covered the sump.
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Sludge Handling in Perry, Oklahoma
The city needed to discharge sludge at two different rates–one rate for sludge returning to the headworks RAS and another rate for sending material to the sludge box. The system is designed to speed up dewatering biosolids as a replacement to the existing sand drying beds.
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Successful Trials with Flygt Adaptive Mixing Technology
The 4220 mixer comes in 1.5-, 2-, 3-, and 4-horsepower models. A four-horsepower mixer can operate at any lower power level and perform with the same high efficiency as a lower power model.
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Wet well wonder in a deep sewer tunnel
A deep-tunnel pumping system for Columbus, Ohio’s OARS project uses adjustable-speed Flygt pumps to manage extreme head variations and efficiently dewater a 215-foot-deep, high-capacity sewer tunnel after major flow events.