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News Release from: Mono Pumps | Subject: Gunmetal Series A Muncher
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 April 2002
Muncher cleans up North Sea platform
waste
Mono Pumps has installed its anticorrosive Gunmetal Series A Muncher on NAM's accommodation platform in the Dutch sector of the North sea.
Mono Pumps has installed its anticorrosive Gunmetal Series A Muncher on NAM's accommodation platform in the Dutch sector of the North sea, providing a reliable and efficient solution to offshore sewage handling and discharge The K81 accommodation platform, bridge linked to the NAM gas production platform, houses 24 employees
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Muncher disintegrates all solids within the flow, with no further treatment required.
The 'munched' solids are dispersed quickly, with most being consumed as organic foodstuff.
Macerating the raw sewage and grey water at a rate of 60mü/h, the unit is also built to withstand the offshore environment, supplied in gunmetal to offer corrosion, wear and spark resistance.
Each shaft is fitted with a series of interleaving cutters and spacers to give positive displacement solids grinding.
The Muncher allows liquid to pass through the cutter stacks, filtering and trapping the contained solids.
All of its high torque power is then put into the solids grinding to ensure optimum efficiency.
The shaft and cutter speed of 85rev/min offers low cutter tip speeds, and therefore dramatically reduces wear rates in comparison to high speed macerators, also reducing noise levels on the accommodation platform.
Supplied with a weatherproof control panel and integral PLC unit, automatic protection is offered to the Muncher by shutting it down if any solids will not pass through after three attempts.
Although these shut downs are quite rare, damage is prevented to the equipment and those on deck are alerted to the problem.
The addition of a lifting frame and simple construction of the unit ensures ease of access and installation.
Mono Pumps, commissioned by contractor SLP Engineering, has achieved a high vendor rating for its service and response time and has subsequently been awarded a new contract to supply equipment for a second platform.
NAM is engaged in tracing and extracting oil and natural gas in the Netherlands and the Dutch section of the Continental Shelf.
The offshore oil platform has been installed and commissioned in order to extract and process the oil from beneath the seabed.
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