Progressive Cavity Pumps for Exact Volume Measurement of Fluids

Look around you and you can see progressive cavity pumps just everywhere. Whether it’s in oil pumps, water pumps, food and drink pumps or slurry pumping, these are used almost anywhere. The only fact is that you just don’t realize. They help in moving fluids through a series of controlled channels or chambers, in the desired volume.

Application Areas of PC Pumps

Apart from these places, a wide variety of these pumps are also used while drilling for oil and natural gas in various oil fields and onshore places. How can we forget about its integrality in wineries, where it is used extensively in the distillation process, which requires well calibrated and measured flow of the liquid? Again, you would find them in shipyards, where precisely measured doses of liquid fuel is required to be filled in tanks. Precise volumetric measurement of oil is also an important prerogative when filling engine oils. You would also sometimes find a PC pump being used in construction companies where they help in moving cement to a location and to pour in the grout in the desired areas.

Benefits of PC Pumps

There are many advantages of using progressive cavity pumps. They do not allow rags and hair to pass thus filtering all impurities on the way. You can move the required liquid or fluid in the desired pace, as you can apply different pressures, while using these pumps. This way you can remove substantial wear and tear associated with other conventional pump varieties. Thus you can maintain a substantial balance which is required for exact liquid/fluid flow, whatever application you use these progressive cavity pumps in.

Maintenance of Progressive Cavity Pumps

However, there are a few factors that have to be taken into consideration to maintain and use the progressive cavity pumps for the best results.

• Never run a PC pump dry, even for a brief period, or it would get damaged- this is very important as repair cost is quite high in such cases. Moreover, repairing involves use of higher manpower (at least 3 to 4 persons)


• Always leave sufficient space for your pumps, so that you leave enough space for removing the rotor and stator


• Use at least 10-20 psi per stage on abrasive applications if you wish to have a longer life for your PC pumps

So, next time you wish to use progressive cavity pumps in your facilities, you would know how beneficial they are and how to maintain them for getting the best deals.