Syngenta Selects HMD Sealless Pumps

 

Today, agriculture employs more than one billion people around the world, and the World Bank estimates that we’ll need to produce almost 70% more food by 2050 to feed the world’s growing population. Efficiency – in every aspect of farming - is more critical than ever.

Pumps have always played an important role in agriculture, for crop irrigation, applying fertilizers and pesticides or supplying drinking water for livestock. Pumps also play a key role in the manufacturing of the pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, and fertilizers that are critical to agriculture around the globe.

Agricultural specialist Syngenta makes a wide range of products that control pests, diseases, and residues on crops. Syngenta makes many of these products in Porriño, Pontevedra, Spain. When they renovated their facility, they evaluated several pump vendors – seeking new pumps that could address their requirements for high temperatures as well as the ability to stand up to the volatile chemical Tefluthrin, which is used in their soil pest treatments.

After a lengthy evaluation, Syngenta selected HMD Kontro chemical service CSI magnetic drive pumps, in corrosion-resistant 316 stainless steel materials and in a space-saving close coupled configuration. The HMD pumps are being used to transfer liquids from their reactor to storage tanks, and they’re also used to recirculate Tefluthrin within their storage tanks. HMD Kontro pumps were selected for the following reasons:
  • Hydraulics: the HMD CSI pumps addressed Syngenta’s flow and head requirements.
  • Flexibility: the components in HMD pumps are modular and interchangeable, making it easy to address future changes to process conditions.
  • Compliance: the HMD CSI range complies with ISO designs & safety standards, as well as recent regulations mandated under ASME and ISO standards for optional secondary control/ containment systems.
  • Safety & Peace of Mind: Syngenta implemented HMD's secondary control system with a leakage sensor. This system features a leakage restriction device that is located between the rotating shaft and the static coupling housing, which forms a secondary pressure boundary. This provides additional safety & control beyond the pump’s primary pressure boundary. In the unlikely event of a breach of the containment shell, leakage of the process liquid to atmosphere is restricted by the secondary controls. The leakage sensor installed within the secondary pressure area halts the pump to enable the primary pressure boundary failure to be detected and addressed, providing greater safety for operators and the environment.
  • Global 24X7 Support: HMD Kontro/Sundyne’s global service teams are on hand to assist with all aspects of pump operation.
  • Easy Installation & Maintenance: Syngenta preferred a sealless pump. With no seals to leak, no buffer systems to maintain and no supporting systems for cooling water, venting or vapor recovery, sealless pumps are easier to install, and significantly easier to maintain.






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