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Enhancing Fluid Mobility: Mobile Pump Systems

Written by Hayes Pump | Jul 23, 2024 7:31:50 PM

Mobile pump systems are often self-contained units that can be easily moved to where needed. While mainly used for transferring water, they have various commercial, industrial, and municipal applications. Some mobile pump systems can handle fluids other than water. They are commonly used for firefighting, draining water, and flood protection. Additionally, they can benefit processing applications involving different fluids, such as in chemical plants, distilleries, microbreweries, and restaurants for oil and fat collection. These portable pump systems offer flexible solutions compared to stationary pumps, ensuring reliable fluid transportation.

Why Use Packaged Mobile Pump Systems? 

Though the applications mobile pumping systems are used for differ, they’re typically used by facilities with fluid storage spread out over a wide area. By making fluid transfer mobile, pumping systems can be more versatile. Portability also enables the pump to be used for other applications and different locations. When mobile pump systems come as a package, they come ready to use and just require a connection to a facility’s piping system.

Advantages of packaged mobile pump systems include: 

  • Accessibility: When mobile, pump systems that come in a package are easier to manage as they require no complicated connections or installation.
  • Adaptability: While it depends on specifications, mobile pump systems can handle various liquids, from water with solids to chemical solutions.
  • Lightweight: Truly mobile pumping units won’t require heavy equipment to move, so compact and lighter-weight packaged systems are more versatile.
  • Cost-effectiveness: Pump packages provide the user with a complete system, whether stationary or mobile; pump systems that are both packaged and transportable tend to be more affordable, too, as they don’t require costly installation.
  • Dependability: Because they’re designed to move, mobile pump systems feature particularly robust designs to deal with various difficult conditions.
  • Disaster management: To handle emergency situations like fighting an industrial fire or flooding, movable pumps are much more adaptable.
  • Efficiency: To compensate for the lack of size, most portable pumping systems will feature powerful motors able to handle higher capacities, which are essential for managing floodwaters or other similar applications.
  • Equipped: A packaged pumping system with mobile capabilities will be properly configured, tested, and ready to use immediately.
  • Installation: While still needing hosing or piping connected to them, installing mobile pump systems where they’re needed is a simple process.
  • Maintenance: It’s often difficult to reach certain components in a mounted pump, whereas mobile pump systems can generally be repositioned to allow easier access for maintenance and repair.
  • Mobility: Made compact with an emphasis on lighter-weight materials, the design of these pump systems allows for easy movement.
  • Versatility: As they can be brought wherever needed, mobile pump systems can be used more flexibly.

Packaging mobile pump systems also make their production less costly, as fabricating identical systems is more cost-effective than producing a single unique system. However, certain pump manufacturers can make custom packages engineered to customers’ desired specifications but are also mobile. Pumping systems often work better when movable for applications like accessing water resources, dredging operations, firefighting, protecting against floods, and water drainage.  

Some municipal water supplies use open freshwater sources like lakes and rivers. Packaged mobile pump systems offer quick access. These systems are also handy for dredging operations in harbors or shipping channels, but they need to be sturdy for moving liquids with solids. Accessing open surface water is crucial for firefighting too.

Firefighters in wooded areas can easily access water supplies using mobile pump systems to extinguish forest fires. Portable pumps are also vital for urban fire emergencies where surface water is not readily available. Mobile pump systems are not just for fires; they are handy in flood-prone areas. They can move water away from structures like dams, dikes, or seawalls to prevent flooding. During floods, these pumps help drain water faster.

How Hayes Pump’s Mobile Pump Packages Enhance Processes

Hayes Pump offers a variety of mobile pump systems that can be quickly deployed to handle situations where fixed pumps fall short. This adaptability is vital for industries like mining and construction and municipalities dealing with emergencies. Our durable mobile pump systems are preassembled, tested for quick installation, and built to withstand tough conditions for uninterrupted operation. They are designed for easy maintenance, with intuitive interfaces and remote monitoring for real-time performance tracking. Hayes also provides options for advanced features like variable frequency drives and user-friendly control systems, all while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. Customization is available to meet specific customer needs for pump capacities and configurations.

Hayes Pump: Mobile Pump Systems to Augment Processing

Hayes Pump carries mobile pump system packages for various commercial, industrial, and municipal applications. Additionally, our company can tailor these pump packages to meet any special needs of our customers. As a distributor of pumps and pump components, along with services that include maintenance and repair, Hayes Pump offers a wide range of mobile pump systems. Our manufacturers include Xylem Inc., Warren-Rupp, Viking Pump, The Gorman-Rupp Company, Pentair Fairbanks-Nijhuis, LobePro Rotary Pumps and Grundfos Pumps.

Dewatering Mobile Pump Systems

These heavy-duty mobile pump systems can handle a significant volume of water for applications where water needs to be drained rapidly yet effectively. Hayes carries pumps made by Gorman Rupp, being an industry leader in the fabrication, lease, sales, and servicing of mobile pump systems. Dewatering pump systems are often used in agriculture, construction, and mining industries.

High-Pressure Mobile Pump Systems

Ensuring the proper flow and pressure for applications requiring higher pressure pumping, Gorman Rupp’s  line also offers pumps from materials suitable for freshwater or saltwater. Able to operate as standby pumps for high-pressure applications like firefighting, these mobile pump systems can be packaged with hose reels or hydrants. They can also be used for industrial cleaning or as jetting pumps in high-pressure sewage systems.   

Bypass Mobile Pump Systems

These divert flow when upgrades, repairs, or maintenance are taking place, so for flexibility, these pump packages need to be mobile. Pump systems bypassing main lines operate as temporary measures to ensure an uninterrupted flow while work on infrastructure occurs. Hayes carries Gorman Rupp’s products, making bypass pumps for wastewater in the environmental, industrial, and municipal sectors.

Emergency Mobile Pump Systems

Hayes carries various sump and utility pumps to deal with emergency situations. Pump systems made by Gorman Rupp can offer mobile or submersible options, depending on the application. These emergency pumping systems can be rapidly deployed to lessen damage due to equipment failure, flooding, or other mechanical and environmental disasters.

General-Purpose Mobile Pump Systems

Hayes carries compact, general-purpose pumps made by Grundfos for various purposes. Capable of handling various fluids and flow rates, these mobile pump systems are versatile and can be readily customized to deal with specific applications. Their uses include draining spots vulnerable to flooding and lifting water from pits, ponds, swimming pools, and underpasses. They’re also sometimes used by breweries and in other processing industries.

Mobile Pump Systems for Slurries 

These mobile pump systems must be particularly robust to withstand the abrasive and viscous substances within slurries. Hayes carries pumps from Warren-Rupp that can handle solutions containing suspended solids and many abrasive liquids. Warren-Rupp also manufactures an air-powered pump made from polypropylene that can safely handle shear-sensitive and highly viscous fluids.

Additionally, we offer pump products from both Gorman Rupp and LobePro Rotary Pumps. Gorman Rupp makes a portable pump that can handle solids, while LobePro’s self-priming pumps wash out clarifiers and digesters in water treatment plants. These mobile pump systems are often used for dredging, mining operations, and numerous industrial processes.

Fuel Transfer Mobile Pump Systems

Viking Pumps makes products for Hayes that transfer fuel and other volatile liquids. Fuel transfer pumps also pump lubricant and keep industrial equipment operating efficiently. These mobile pump systems are used for handling flammable and otherwise dangerous fluids. Often used to pump lubricants through dehydration systems, filters, and heat exchangers, these portable pumps remove contaminants and excess moisture while decreasing operating temperatures.

Agricultural Mobile Pump Systems

For various farming applications, Grundfos also makes a compact, single-stage drainage pump constructed out of stainless steel, which is also mobile. Pump systems like these can be portable or permanently installed while operating partly or completely submerged. Used for irrigation, watering livestock, or other water transfer applications, dairies, farms, ranches, and other agricultural enterprises often utilize them.

Mobile Pump Systems for Municipal Water Treatment

Hayes also carries submersible wastewater pumps made by Grundfos that can be installed permanently or kept mobile. Pump systems for water treatment applications must operate reliably and comply with strict safety standards. Gorman Rupp, additionally provides mobile pump systems for drinking water municipalities and other entities use. These portable systems are found in water treatment plants and are used to distribute potable water and treat wastewater.

Mobile Pump Systems for Transferring Chemicals

Hayes Pump carries a variety of mobile pump systems designed for efficiency and reliability in transporting chemicals. We also offer customized solutions for specified applications and industries. Capable of dealing with aggressive liquids, these portable pumps are made with materials that can handle exposure to chemicals and resist corrosion.

To learn more about specific types of mobile pump systems carried by Hayes Pump and our customizable packages, contact one of our friendly representatives today.