Amarinth - a new rapid prototyping production technique for centrifugal pumps culminating in the production of a bespoke pump for the sulphur production industry

Amarinth - 一种用于离心泵的新型快速原型生产技术，最终为硫磺生产行业生产定制泵

• 批准号: 720114
• 金额: $ 31.86万
• 依托单位: AMARINTH LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720114
• 关键词: Amarinth; new; rapid; prototyping; production

Vertical and horizontal centrifugal pumps are used throughout industry and users are oftenforced to select a best fit pump for a given application from a standard range of pumps fromsuppliers. As many as 50% of pumps do not then run at their Best Efficiency Point and energyinefficiencies of 25% are common. In an ideal world the impellor and casing of a pump wouldbe designed and manufactured to each specific pump application. The pumping of liquidsulphur in the petro-chemical industry is a particularly aggressive environment requiring highreliability and robustness. Energy efficiency is now being demanded. Project has two keyobjectives, firstly the development of a design and production process to enable the mostadvanced and efficient bespoke centrifugal pumps to be designed & produced in shorter leadtimes and at less cost to end users. Secondly this technology will be applied to create aprototype centrifugal pump for application into the sulphur production market with highefficiency, high maintainability and high reliability. Amarinth will then use the design andrapid tooling techniques in many of their other pump applications and use it as a keydifferentiator from their competition and further their brand image of delivering highlyreliable pumps in short leadtimes. Main benefits are focused on the two project areas. Beingable to manufacture pumps designed to operate at their Best Efficiency Point can offer endusers10 – 25% energy savings and when 95% of pump life cycle costs are energy costs, thisrepresents a huge saving. Less energy usage means CO2 savings. Successful development ofthe sulphur pump will ensure plant runs more efficiently and reliably. If the plant experiencesan emergency shutdown & the sulphur solidifies, the pump design allows rapid reinstatement& repair which has economic and health and safety advantages. UK pump fleet energysavings of 875GWH/year could be expected with 25% market penetration. Amarinth has atarget of 5%.

立式和卧式离心泵在整个工业中使用，用户经常被迫从供应商的标准泵系列中选择最适合给定应用的泵。多达50%的泵不能在最佳效率点运行，25%的能效低下是常见的。在理想的世界里，泵的叶轮和壳体将根据每个特定的泵应用而设计和制造。石油化工行业中液体硫磺的泵送是一个特别苛刻的环境，需要高可靠性和鲁棒性。能源效率现在被要求。该项目有两个主要目标，首先是设计和生产流程的开发，使最先进和高效的定制离心泵能够在更短的交货期内设计和生产，并以更低的成本为最终用户。其次，将该技术应用于制造原型离心泵，以应用于硫磺生产市场，具有高效率，高可维护性和高可靠性。然后，Amarinth将在许多其他泵应用中使用设计和快速加工技术，并将其作为与竞争对手的关键区别，并进一步提升其在短交货期内提供高度可靠泵的品牌形象。主要效益集中在两个项目领域。能够制造设计为在最佳效率点运行的泵可以为最终用户节省10 - 25%的能源，当95%的泵生命周期成本是能源成本时，这意味着巨大的节省。更少的能源消耗意味着节省二氧化碳。硫磺泵的研制成功将保证装置的高效、可靠运行。如果设备发生紧急停机和硫磺固化，泵的设计允许快速恢复和维修，这具有经济、健康和安全的优势。英国泵车队的能源节省875 GWH/年，预计25%的市场渗透率。Amarinth的目标是5%。