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News Release from: David Brown Engineering
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 14 May 2002
Gear units play role in irrigation
project
David Brown Engineering has secured a GBP 2.3 million order to supply gear units for pumping stations being used to create one of the world's largest irrigation projects.
David Brown Engineering has secured a GBP 2.3 million order to supply gear units for pumping stations being used to create one of the world's largest irrigation projects in the Indian state of Gujarat The Narmada Project canal system will eventually irrigate 1.8 million hectares of land, and meet the drinking water requirements of millions of drought-affected people
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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David Brown is supplying 26 single stage vertical planetary gear units to India's premier pump manufacturer, Kirloskar Brothers which is creating the world's largest pumping system.
The Narmada gear sets transmit approximately 4500kW at 200rev/min and are nominally capable of handling a thrust load of over 90 tonnes.
They have been designed and engineered to operate in arduous conditions at ambient temperatures over 45C.
The gear sets will be supplied over the 4-year life of the project, with the first due to be delivered later this year following load tests carried out in conjunction with Kirloskar Brothers on specially designed rigs at the Huddersfield factory.
Kirloskar Brothers is building five huge new pumping stations equipped with mammoth concrete volute pumps, which will eventually be capable of lifting some 410,000 litres of water per second to provide irrigation and drinking water to 132 towns and a large number of villages in the drought-affected areas of the Saurashtra region.
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