Main benefits
  • High durability due to heavy-duty construction
  • High reliability and minimum lifecycle costs
  • Maximum adaptability due to a wide range of different hydraulics, designs and materials
  • Can run dry
  • No sealing system required
  • Low and easy maintenance
Main applications

VAP heavy-duty cantilever sump pump is suitable for highly demanding applications such as:

  • highly corrosive, abrasive, encrusting liquid and slurry
  • high-temperature pumping
  • molten metal pumping
Main design features
  • Heavy-duty construction
  • All types of hydraulics available: open, semi-open or vortex impellers
  • No sealing required
  • No intermediate bearing
  • Dry running allowed
  • Discharge separate from the shaftline
  • Bearing assembly is sealed to prevent contamination by liquids or gases
  • Special design for high-temperature applications
Key characteristics
Capacities up to 3’500 m3/h / 15’400 USgpm
Heads 150 m / 500 ft.
Pressures up to 20 bar / 290 psi
Temperatures up to 900°C / 1‘652°F
Performance range
Performance range of VAP cantilever sump pump
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Industries
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    Mining and metals
    Long experience and detailed knowledge of metals and mining applications with different raw materials makes Sulzer a reliable pump supplier for these industries.
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    Desalination
    As a global leader in pump design and manufacture, Sulzer is recognized for delivering the excellent product quality and performance reliability for the most critical applications in desalination.
  • Water treatment plant
    Municipal clean water
    We provide reliable pumping solutions for various industrial water and wastewater treatment processes. Our technologies enable the removal of organics.
  • Water treatment plant
    Industrial water treatment
    We provide extensive coverage of energy-efficient and reliable pumping, mixing, and aeration solutions for all industrial water treatment processes.
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    Pulp, paper and board
    Sulzer is the world leader in innovative, reliable, and proven pumping, agitation and mixing solutions for the pulp and paper industry. Our deep process and application knowledge is based on long-term close co-operation with the producers, machinery suppliers and engineering companies.
  • Cane and white sugar
    Sugar, starch and sweeteners
    Efficient production of sugar, starch and sweeteners puts high demands on the processing equipment. Thanks to many years of experience and comprehensive process know-how, Sulzer offers a wide portfolio of innovative process pumps, special pumps, mixers, agitators, compressors and aerators for these industry sectors.
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    Biofuels
    Biofuels from renewable sources show great potential as sustainable transportation fuel. Based on our experience in demanding processes, we work with customers to develop advanced pumping, mixing, and distillation solutions for the production of biofuels, from pilot to commercial-scale installations.
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    Fertilizers
    Our pumps, mixers and agitators provide durability and reliability for fertilizers production as well as for corrosive and abrasive liquids and high gas content. Our specific industry experience also includes separation processes and servicing of pumps, compressors, turbines, and motors.
  • Chemical plant
    Chemicals
    Sulzer improves quality, capacity, and energy efficiency with its advanced technologies and services for separation processes; including distillation, absorption, evaporation, extraction and crystallization. Our pumps, mixers, and agitators cover the specific requirements in chemical processes.
  • Chemical processing plant
    Chemical processing
    Our solutions for the chemical processing industry include pumping, separation and mixing, as well as services for rotating equipment and infrastructure. We offer experience in classical chemical, plastic, and pharmaceutical production as well as in processing renewable materials.
  • A city with a river photographed from bird's eye
    Domestic and commercial wastewater
    Wastewater poses a complex challenge, no matter whether it originates in a single house or a multi-family home, a commercial building or an industrial complex. Whatever the property, Sulzer is the ideal wastewater partner from the start of the project to its final sign-off.
  • Municipal wastewater treatment plant in Denmark
    Municipal wastewater
    Sulzer plays a major role in returning clean water to its source, by providing effective solutions for wastewater collection and treatment focused on safety, reliability, and efficiency. Sulzer offers the most up-to-date range of pumps, submersible mixers and agitators, aeration systems, high speed compressors and equipment controllers, supported by a world wide service organization.
  • Close up of multiple cardboard rolls
    Pulp, paper and board
    Sulzer is the world leader in innovative, reliable, and proven pumping, agitation and mixing solutions for the pulp and paper industry. Our deep process and application knowledge is based on long-term close co-operation with the producers, machinery suppliers and engineering companies.
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