Pump limits environmental impact

The eco-design approach to product design aims to minimise the environmental impact of a product during its entire lifecycle.

PCM has released Ecolobe pump, its first eco-designed lobe pump for heavy-duty industrial applications.

With the addition of Ecolobe, PCM rounds out its offer of positive displacement pumps, which also includes progressing cavity pumps, peristaltic hose pumps and dosing pumps.

Ecolobe is the first lobe pump developed by PCM using eco-design.

This approach to product design aims to minimise the environmental impact of a product during its entire lifecycle.

PCM embraced eco-design in the late 1990s as a way of reducing the total cost of pump ownership for its customers.

Eco-designed pumps also help customers prepare in advance for increasingly strict environmental regulations.

Ecolobe was eco-designed from the ground up in order to overcome the shortcomings of traditional lobe pumps, including frequent and costly servicing and fluid contamination.

Ecolobe is designed without an oil chamber to eliminate the risk of the pumped fluids being contaminated by lubricating oil.

Another common problem in older pumps is lobe failure, caused by the lobe rubbing against access plate fasteners.

The new Ecolobe body design developed by PCM engineers eliminated or repositioned the plate fasteners.

The result is easier access for maintenance operations and no more contact between fasteners and the lobe.

Ecolobe's eco-design also includes improved shaft reliability and easier rotor synchronisation.

The Ecolobe pump is a suitable choice for industrial applications that need a reliable, highly efficient pump that can handle liquids containing solids, with a pulsation-free pumping action to avoid shearing.

Ecolobe provides continuous and reversible flows and can tolerate running dry.

Ecolobe requires very little maintenance and has excellent service-in-place characteristics.

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