Category Archives: News

Elevated Temperatures, ETLF, News

Elevated-Temp Pumps for Landfills to 300F

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Two industrial devices with stainless steel components and electronic parts are displayed against a blue technical background. Each device features vertical and horizontal elements, tubes, and cables. Both are mounted on circular metal bases.
20
Jul

All pneumatic air or electric power above grade

GLEN ELLYN, IL — Blackhawk Technology Company, the industry's pumping-innovation leader for the past 25 years, introduces a new line of technologically advanced pumps and products built to manage fluids from 150°F to 300°F in Elevated Temperature Landfills (ETLFs) and other extreme environments.

The V-2 Elevated-Temp Pneumatic Piston Pump™ and Anchor Elevated-Temp Electric Piston Pump™ handle virtually anything flowable, regardless of chemical composition and viscosities, including boiling liquids.

Blackhawk Elevated-Temp products are successfully pumping at several of North America’s most troublesome landfill sites. Specialty materials of construction for the Elevated-Temp line include PEEK thermoplastic-polymer seal cartridges and pistons, Viton® fluoropolymer seals and U-cups, brass oiler plates and green-fiber thermoplastic rods.

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Coal Tar, Coal-Ash, Landfill Leachate, News, Toxic Chemical Recovery

What’ll You Have? How About a Scotch & Solar?

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Three solar panels mounted on yellow and black stands are positioned in an open grassy area. Near the setup, a top-head drive pump is connected with wiring and pipes that run to a central unit. The sky is partly cloudy with blue patches visible.
20
Jul

An Argument for the Most Versatile Combo in Environmental Pumping

It’s simple, dependable, cost-effective, portable, versatile, durable and moves virtually anything that flows. Three ingredients: 1) The “old-reliable” piston-pump downhole, 2) the top-head driver (with only four moving parts) and 3) the solar panel.

The combination is increasingly being used at landfills, toxic-remediation sites, biogas and pipeline condensate operations, coal-ash and coal-tar recovery zones, petrochemical plants, remote/closed sites and for other applications benefitting from low-flow, controlled pumping not served by trenched power.

It’s simple, dependable, cost-effective, portable, versatile, durable and moves virtually anything that flows. Three ingredients: 1) The “old-reliable” piston-pump downhole, 2) the top-head driver (with only four moving parts) and 3) the solar panel.

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Case Studies, Coal-Ash, Coal-Ash Leachate, News

Pumping Coal-Ash Leachate to Stay in Compliance

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A solar panel is mounted on a metal frame in an open field with tall grass, connected to an electrical box and a cylindrical pipe below, resembling a top-head drive pump. A flag is attached to the top of the frame. The sky is partly cloudy with bright sunlight illuminating the scene.
01
Jul

Apollo Solar Pumps Operate at
Remote Sites, Without Trenched Power

Near coal-fired electric power plants across the U.S. lies the residue of burned bituminous. The EPA calls it Coal Combustion Residuals (CCRs) — a combination of powdery light ash, heavy bottom ash, boiler slag and flue-gas desulfurization material.

The residue is commonly known as coal ash. It is often buried at sites officially classified as solid-waste landfills.

As with all landfills, rainwater can infiltrate a site to create liquid leachate. Coal-ash fluid is clear but can contain salts, heavy metals and other toxic chemicals. Fugitive coal-ash leachate can threaten public health.

Positive-displacement solar piston units pump virtually anything that flows, including high temperature, viscous or foamy fluids at any pH; operate at any angle including horizontal; are unaffected by changes in positive or negative pressure; can run dry without harm;

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Electric Pumps, News, Solar Pumps

Apollo Pump Now in Solar or AC

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A metal box labeled "Apollo" is attached to a pipe structure in a grassy field, seemingly part of a top-head drive pump system. An electrical control device is affixed to a pole nearby, connected by wires and an orange extension cord. The sky is clear with scattered clouds in the distance.
05
Apr

Simple & Reliable Top-Head Driver Outperforms With Choice of Power Sources

GLEN ELLYN, IL — Blackhawk Technology’s Apollo piston pumps – versatile and popular choices for landfill leachate, gas-well dewatering, condensate pump and low-flow remediation pumping – are now available with either solar-panel or AC-electric power configurations.

Both Apollo Solar and Apollo-AC pumps feature a rugged, low-draw 3/8 hp motor and simple linear-rod Scottish yoke mechanism with newly designed stuffing box and cartridge seals. As with all Blackhawk piston pumps, the driver motor, power and connections are mounted safely above the wellhead for easy installation and faster servicing at surface grade, cleanly away from the liquid being pumped.

Apollo piston pumps are versatile and popular choices for landfill leachate, gas-well dewatering, condensate pump and low-flow remediation pumping – are now available with either solar-panel or AC-electric power configurations.

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News

Service Exchange Program

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Two industrial pneumatic cylinders with connected components, including gauges and black tubing, are displayed side by side on circular metal bases. Featuring vertical metal rods and grey cylindrical bodies, the setup integrates a top-head drive pump among various mechanical parts attached.
05
Apr

Recondition pneumatic drivers & keep wells pumping, with serious savings

Low-Cost Factory Alternative to Buying New

GLEN ELLYN, IL – Because duty cycle, run time, and normal wear-and-tear can affect even the best of pneumatic pump drivers, Blackhawk Technology Company now offers a significant cost-saving program to keep downhole pumps operating with factory rebuilds of drivers, including Blackhawk’s unique snap-in stuffing-box components.

“Blackhawk’s unique top-head-drive design allows field techs to simply dismount the original above-grade pneumatic driver, rotate in a reserve motor, and pack the driver in a custom shipping case that we provide,” Mark Bertane, Blackhawk’s principal executive, said. “We return the driver in roughly two weeks, good as new and at a remarkably low price.”

Recondition pneumatic drivers & keep wells pumping, with serious savings

GLEN ELLYN, IL – Because duty cycle, run time, and normal wear-and-tear can affect even the best of pneumatic pump drivers, Blackhawk Technology Company now offers a significant cost-saving program to keep downhole pumps operating with factory rebuilds of drivers, including Blackhawk’s unique snap-in stuffing-box components.

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News, Solar Pumps

Compressing Matters

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A solar panel is mounted on a metal stand in the middle of a field, powering a top-head drive pump. The panel is connected to a control box and a small white pipe. The sky is clear and blue, and the surrounding area is covered with dry grass.
05
Apr

Looking at the use of compressed air with leachate and condensate pumps

By Mark Bertane

As seen in MSW Management Magazine

Talk with a seasoned landfill managing engineer about pneumatic power. Pneumatic was already on site when he or she arrived, pushing compressed air significant distances to make leachate and condensate pumps work.

Hardly unusual. It would be difficult to find a North American landfill that doesn’t rely on compressed air. Pneumatic is old-shoe technology – go-to because it is familiar, understood, almost comfortable.

Talk with a seasoned landfill managing engineer about pneumatic power. Pneumatic was already on site when he or she arrived, pushing compressed air significant distances to make leachate and condensate pumps work.

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News

Zero-Emission Solars Pumping

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A fenced area with a solar-powered water pump system, featuring a top-head drive pump. The setup includes two solar panels mounted on a pole, red pipes, and control equipment encased in a grey box. Surrounding the equipment is a gravel path with green vegetation in the background.
04
Apr

Missouri hog farm manure-to-energy project turns methane into natural gas. Roeslein-Smithfield Biogas Condensate Sumps

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.

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.

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