Main benefits
  • Reduced number of stages results in shorter, more reliable pumps
  • Double suction on larger sizes can reduce pump length
  • High efficiency with reduced power consumption
  • Modular construction to fit project nozzle location requirements
  • High head per stage means process conditions can be reached with slower speeds
Main applications
  • Shipping of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquified natural gas (LNG)
  • Tank farm booster
  • Crude oil pipeline booster
  • Debutanizer/depropanizer services in cryogenic gas plants
Main design features
  • Cast discharge heads for lower cost
  • Fabricated discharge heads for project-related nozzle location requirements
  • Fabricated suction cans with anti-vortexing features
  • Thrust bearing in pump or motor to meet project specifications
Key characteristics
Capacities Up to 5'000 m3/h / 22'000 US gpm
Heads Up to 900 m / 3'000 ft
Pressures Up to 78 bar / 1'130 psi
Temperatures Up to 205 °C / 400 °F
Discharge sizes Up to 600 mm / 24 inches
Maximum speed of rotation Up to 3'600 rpm
Performance range
SJD (API) Range Chart 50 Hz
Performance range 50 Hz
SJD (API) Range Chart 60 Hz
Performance range 60 Hz
Applications
  • Crude oil pipeline mountainous terrain
    In remote areas, there may not be power available, or, terrain may be so steep that all the pressure rise has to be made in 1 station. Each pump must make the entire head. Pumps are often run in parallel. Hundreds of Sulzer multistage pump performances meet such high pressure requirements.

  • Crude oil pipeline offshore to onshore
    All the pressure rise must be made in the crude shipping pumps on the platform. Salt spray is corrosive and platform movement during storms can affect reliability. Specially packaged Sulzer multistage pumps are used to move crude oil from offshore platforms to onshore storage or pipeline systems.

  • Crude oil pipeline onshore flat terrain
    Power cost is the largest operating cost for crude oil pipelines on flat terrain. Flow rate, viscosity, pipe size, and station spacing all affect pump selection. 2 or 3 mainline pumps are often run in series. Sulzer can help with FEED assistance, rerates to optimize performance and lower power costs.

  • Hydraulic power recovery turbine
    Many industries aim to reduce their ecological footprint by minimizing energy consumption. Sulzer Hydraulic Power Recovery Reaction Turbines can be used to capture lost energy.

  • Hydrocarbon feed pump
    Hydrocarbon feed pumps feed the heat exchanger where a working fluid of low temperature boiling point is flashed by the medium temperature hydrothermal resource. Then, it is expanded in a thermal turbine driving an electric generator.

  • Liquefied petroleum gas pipelines
    Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) mixtures (ethane, propane, butane) can have vapor pressure up to 40 Bar, specific gravity less than 0.40, and almost no lubricity. Sulzer provides special materials, acoustic studies, and lateral analysis to assure reliable performance with varying flow, speed, and fluid conditions.

  • Refined product pipelines
    Thousands of Sulzer multistage pipeline pumps move diesel fuel, jet fuel, gasoline, and other refined products all over the globe. Sulzer’s global service centers, service and retrofit not only our own pumps, but other pumps and motors as well.

  • Supercritical and compressible fluid pipelines
    For the past 30 years, Sulzer multistage pumps have been used to pump compressible, dense phase ethylene and CO2 at normal and supercritical pressures. Compressible performance prediction, acoustic studies, and, lateral analysis, are all part of service provided by Sulzer engineers for such rigorous applications.

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