The VUPX series of submersible propeller pumps are ideal for applications where large volumes of storm or process water have to be pumped to heads up to a maximum of 10 m. These compact pumps feature highly efficient three- or four-blade propellers with low NPSH characteristic and a space-saving design. They ensure high reliability and efficiency.
Propeller Pumps equipped with Premium Efficiency IE3 motors ranging from 9 to 650 kW for 50Hz.
Propeller Pumps equipped with Premium Efficiency IE3 motors ranging from 23 to 1005 hp for 60Hz.
Pumps available with motor power up to 650kW / 50 Hz and 1005 hp / 60 Hz can optionally be equipped with planetary gear boxes.
Equipped with highly efficient three-or four-blade propellers with excellent NPSH values
Propellers available with adjustable blades and special skew shaped propellers for return activated sludge
Ideal for applications where large volumes of water have to be pumped up to max. heads of 10 m
Designed for direct installation in the discharge pipe or in the concrete risers to save space and reduce installation costs, using the well-proven coupling ring
Improved energy savings
Long-term reliability
Main applications
Storm water protection, irrigation and aquaculture
Screened wastewater from commercial and industrial sources
Combined sewage and surface water
Return sludge or return activated sludge (RAS)
Wet wells, submerged with automatic coupling system
Climate change is challenging natural disaster prevention. When water runs off the land in large quantities, Sulzer’s comprehensive range of pumps provide reliable, cost effective and efficient solutions for flood control.
Sulzer has a deep knowledge in wastewater treatment, and with our wide product portfolio we can now offer energy-efficient and reliable solutions for your water collection, neutralization, flocculation, sedimentation, cooling, aeration, sludge storage, digestion, and dewatering processes.
Outlet pumping stations are required when the level of the treatment plant is lower than that of the receiving water. This is especially true when discharging into a river, which can rise during heavy rain or flood periods, or into the sea, where the level varies with the tide.
Outlet pumping stations may also be needed to compensate for increasing frictional losses in the outgoing pipe at high flows, for example in long sea outfall pipes.
Outlet pumping stations are required when the level of the treatment plant is lower than that of the receiving water. This is especially true when discharging into a river, which can rise during heavy rain or flood periods, or into the sea, where the level varies with the tide.
During heavy rainfall, storm water pumping stations deliver large volumes of water at low head to receiving surface waters or sewers. Having long been a part of flood management, they are increasingly involved in climate adaptation strategies for low-lying coastal cities.
Meeting today’s challenges and high requirements within water intake, sedimentation, sludge treatment, fine screening, and water distribution processes.
Sulzer delivers large axial propeller pumps with a total motor power of more than 4 MW for the Integrated Rhine Program (IRP) at Polder Rheinschanzinsel in Germany for flood protection. As part of the IRP, the regional authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Karlsruhe is building a retention area for flood control near Philippsburg in Germany.
The reservoir of San Salvador, presently under construction in the province of Huesca, northeast Spain, will serve the demands of 22'400 hectares and improve the irrigation system of the Canal of Aragón and Catalonia from the present annual volume of 5.3 km³ up to 6.8 km³.
