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Blackhawk V-2 Pneumatic Pump photo
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Top-head drive piston pumps for any environmental site
 

AC-electric, pneumatic & zero-emission solar power

we can

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ground mounting
 
Any composition,
any viscosity, any temp
to 300°F +

Blackhawk V-2 Pneumatic Pump photo

if it

FLOWS,

Top-head drive piston pumps for any environmental site
 

AC-electric, pneumatic & zero-emission solar power

we can

PUMP IT.

Top-head-drive, above-
ground mounting
 
Any composition, any viscosity, any temp
to 300°F +

Blackhawk V-2 Pneumatic Pump photo

if it

FLOWS,

Alt-tech piston pumps for any environmental site
 

AC-electric, pneumatic & zero-emission solar power

we can

PUMP IT.

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BLACKHAWK PUMP SYSTEMS

Top-Head-Drive Piston Pumps for Any Fluid

The standard for reliability & durability in landfills, remediation sites, RNG operations and difficult pumping environments. Low-maintenance drive motors above the wellhead or sump. Rugged downhole components withstand hot, acidic, harsh & viscous liquids. Independent of vacuum, depths to 800 feet / 240 meters and flows to 11 gpm / 41.6 lpm. Long life economy.

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WHY BLACKHAWK

Advantages of Above-Grade Actuators & Power

Blackhawks pump anything that flows,
regardless of viscosity or composition, and operate independent of vacuum. The all-weather, top-head-drive motors and stuffing boxes are cleanly and safely outside the well or sump.

Because our actuator mechanicals never come into contact with fluids being pumped, Blackhawks cannot and do not exhaust gases into the atmosphere and, by design, cannot introduce oxygen into discharge systems.

 

PUMP APPLICATIONS

Low-Flow Piston Pumps — Broad Range of Uses

Like reliable oilfield pump jacks, piston pumps achieve positive-displacement flow generation through simple reciprocating-piston technologies. Blackhawk has miniaturized and updated the traditional pump jack for a broad range of applications.

Landfill >

Leachate, Gas-Well Dewatering, Elevated Temp, Condensate Sump

Remediation & Recovery >

NAPL, Chemical Recovery, Groundwater Remediation

Clean Energy / RNG >

Low-Pressure Condensate Sump, Slurry

Midstream and Upstream Oil >

Stripper Wells, Pipeline Condensate Sump, Knockout-Pot Sump

Off-Grid &
Stock Water >

Ranch & Stock, Remote Farm, Garden & Pond

Offshore >

Oil-Rig Caisson Sump, Aggressive Saltwater Environments

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PUMP COMPONENTS

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Pneumatic Pump Components Include:

  1. 700-UN001 1-1/4” PIPE UNION ASSEMBLY
  2. NS-PL001 AUTO LUBRICATOR
  3. 700-AS145 AIR PIPING ASSEMBLY
  4. 700-AS108 AIR SUPPLY KIT
  5. NS-NO008 STROKE COUNTER
  6. 700-AS140 DISCHARGE KIT
  7. **VARIES** FLOW METER
  8. NS-FP001 PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE

Apollo Pump Components Include:

  1. 700-UN001 1-1/4” PIPE UNION ASSEMBLY
  2. 700-HD101 1/4” NPT DRAIN KIT
  3. NS-PL001 AUTO LUBRICATOR
  4. 700-AS140 DISCHARGE KIT
  5. ** VARIES ** FLOW METER
  6. NS-FP001 PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE

Anchor Pump Components Include:

  1. 700-UN001 1-1/4” PIPE UNION ASSEMBLY
  2. 700-HD101 1/4” NPT DRAIN KIT
  3. NS-PL001 AUTO LUBRICATOR
  4. 700-AS140 DISCHARGE KIT
  5. ** VARIES ** FLOW METER
  6. NS-FP001 PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE
 

BLACKHAWK NEWS

ZERO-EMISSION SOLARS Pumping Roeslein-Smithfield Biogas Condensate Sumps

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Missouri hog farm manure-to-energy project turns methane into natural gas.

By Mark Bertane

GLEN ELLYN, IL. – Blackhawk Technology’s Apollo Solar Piston Pumps™ are helping turn pig waste into renewable natural gas (RNG) at a Smithfield Foods Inc.-Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) joint-venture project in Missouri.

Monarch Bioenergy, the Smithfield Renewables/RAE venture entity, installed the zero-emission Apollos early in 2020 to pump 40 biogas methane condensate sumps in the gas-line recovery system. Results have been as required, a good fit for the system, a project engineer said.

Methane captured from manure at Smithfield farms’ hog-finishing operations produces pipeline-quality natural gas that is distributed to RNG markets across the country. Blackhawk, the nation’s leading provider of piston pumps for landfill methane condensate-sump pumping, worked closely with Roeslein to tailor the Apollo specifications to the needs of the extensive site.

As an integral part of the system, condensate sump pumps remove the pipeline moisture that accumulates after the anaerobic digesters converts manure to gas. Blackhawk’s solar pumps with on-off level-control have proven both efficient and dependable in the RNG application, with no carbon emissions, the engineer said.

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CASE STUDIES

Taming ET Sites

Service-Exchange Program: Low-Cost Factory Alternative To Buying New

For the past several years, a growing number of landfill managers have confronted temperatures ranging from 150°F to 250°F or more (65°C to 121°C) from deep inside larger, wetter, maturing sites — not from subsurface fires but from biological or chemical exothermic reactions within zones of the landfill itself.

ETLF events pose a significant threat to existing leachate and gas-well physical systems, including commonly used eductor/riser piping, tubing and pumps that were not designed for high-temperature use.

More sophisticated metering and monitoring of landfill gases is making it easier to deduce if higher temps. are caused by subterranean fires (more carbon monoxide present) or bio-chemical reactions (at high temps.,

Managers at some of the most challenging ETLFs, however, have developed new strategies and tactics shown to slow and then reverse increases in site temperatures –getting ahead of the problem before a warming site becomes a full-blown ETLF.

Positive-displacement piston pumps are playing a key role in ET dewatering. Unlike common air-drive models, piston pumps can be built with materials of construction that withstand heat to 300°F+ (150deg;C).

As the numbers of elevated-temperatures sites grow and research begins to explain why, landfill managers increasingly are turning to specialty-materials piston-pumping systems to reduce incapacitating temperatures.

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Manure to Energy

Zero-Emission Solars Pump Biogas at Missouri Hog Farms’ Manure-to-Energy Project

When America’s largest hog producer, Smithfield Foods, joined with one of the country’s most respected renewable-energy engineers, Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE), to create Monarch Bioenergy in 2020, the concept of turning manure to renewable natural gas (RNG) at Smithfield’s sprawling Missouri farm sites took firm shape.

The answer was Blackhawk’s Apollo Solar Piston Pump™, a simple, non-polluting, durable and cost-effective model that pumps virtually anything that flows. Site engineers installed on-off level-controls that allowed the Apollos to pump to sump bottom.

Site managers report that the Apollos have proven efficient and dependable in the RNG application, with no carbon emissions and easy servicing, with no pump pulling required. The RNG gas produced by the project is pipeline quality and is being provided to users.

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Solars vs Submersibles

Solars replace submersibles to keep old landfill compliant in new life as AZ city park

The Paseo Vista Recreation Area is a big hill covered by boulders encased in sturdy wire and decorated with wildflowers. There’s a good chance the Chandler, Ariz., residents visiting the dog park, archery range and playground don’t know (or remember) that the mound was, for 30 years until 2005, the city landfill.

The Apollo dewatering pumps replaced electric submersibles that suffered in Arizona’s punishing heat, and are part of a system of wells, monitors and pipes that control the decomposing trash’s methane, which is vented and burned inside an enclosed flare system at the park’s east end.

Paseo Vista is unique, says Justin Baldwin, the city’s site supervisor. The encased boulders help control erosion during infrequent but often intense rainstorms…

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Steel Plant’s Tar

V-2 low-flow pneumatic pump recovers tar – “Performed exactly as we hoped”

The company put in a 2-foot diameter, 12-foot-deep well, topping it with a modified-extended version of Blackhawk’s versatile V-2 Pneumatic Piston Pump™

The pump was run off and on for the first couple months while the engineers assessed tar recovery and how to handle the resulting discharge, including environmental controls.

See the V-2 Pneumatic Pump in action

See a closeup of viscous tar being pumped

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