Oil & Gas

In oil and gas processing, the tightness of units is a topic with direct regulatory and safety relevance. Fugitive emissions via seals are a known problem — and a component that wears in operation inevitably becomes a weak point over time.

The hermetically sealed design of the HODD ranges addresses this by construction: where no dynamic shaft seal exists, there is also no leakage path that could deteriorate. This provides the highest level of safety when handling critical media.

Oil and gas industry plants are often located where a service call means planning, travel and permits. Pump damage is therefore never just a spare parts problem but always a logistical one as well.

Protection with the suction or discharge line closed and dry-run safety take two of the most frequent causes of exactly such call-outs out of operation. Both are states that can never be completely ruled out in running plant operation — but that cause no damage with the HODD ranges.

The media conveyed are rarely clean: sand, deposits, catalyst residues and corrosive accompanying substances are part of normal operation. The combination of chemical and mechanical load is therefore the rule, not the exception.

This is exactly what the design targets: chemically resistant wetted parts for the corrosive side, a wear-resistant construction for the abrasive side. Both together form the design focus of the ranges.