THAMES WATER EZSTRIP™ TRANSFER PUMPS

Maintenance downtime at Thames Water's Bicester sewage treatment works (STW) has been significantly reduced following the installation of two revolutionary EZstrip™ maintain-in-place transfer pumps from NOV Mono.

The plant's previous pumps, which transferred primarily settled sewage sludge from four primary settlement tanks to a duty stand-by, were prone to blockages, causing significant downtime for the Oxfordshire plant. NOV Mono's EZstrip™ Transfer Pump, which can be fully stripped down and maintained in place in just 30 minutes, provided the ideal solution.

Bob Steptoe, site manager at Bicester Sewage Treatment Works, commented: "Our previous equipment just wasn't able to cope and was causing significant downtime at the site. Having successfully specified NOV Mono equipment in the past, I knew we could count on the team to provide an easy and reliable solution to our problem."

"The excellent maintain-in-place benefits of EZstrip™ have gone a long way to ensure that the challenging maintenance and repair issues caused by our pumps are long gone. We are very happy with the EZstrip™ Transfer Pumps and they are peforming very well."