The range of vacuum-assisted self-priming centrifugal pumps from Pioneer Pump will be further enhanced with the introduction of three new pumpsets to be launched at Bauma 2010.

Pioneer pumps are recognized worldwide for their exceptional performance characteristics in being able to meet customer expectations reliably and efficiently. The new pumps are designed to meet customer demands of today – high performance, reliability, low running costs and affordability.

The Pioneer 100SL features the new PP44S8 - 100 mm vacuum assisted self-priming pump that benefits from a completed newly designed fluid end, bearing housing and priming chamber.

These features allow the pump to be packaged in a smaller, environmentally friendly, sound attenuated canopy which is small enough to allow two pumps to be carried side by side on a truck without overhang.

This reduces delivery costs for rental companies and end users. With a sound level of just 63 dB(A), the pumpsets can be used in even the most sensitive of areas.

Designed around customer needs for portability, the 100SL weighs just 1,300 kg; a 125 litre fuel tank provides up to 40 hours unattended operation. This proves invaluable where long run-times are experienced in applications such as wellpointing and by-pass overpumping. Invaluable in applications where flow is intermittent, the pumpset has indefinite run-dry capability.


For reliability, it features a minimum 100,000 B10 bearing life design and a high-efficiency, low NPSHr impeller especially designed to maintain a good suction lift in bypass applications. For high-efficiency mine dewatering, the pumpset can be specified with a specially designed impeller with 78% efficiency and 50 mm solids handling capability. The high-efficiency combined with extended running time between refuelling makes for a considerable cost saving.

For more demanding applications, the 150SL pump incorporates the improved PP66S10, 150 mm vacuum assisted self priming pump with the same enhanced designed features as the 100SL. This pumpset features the slightly larger 4-cylinder, Tier III compliant engines from Caterpillar and Perkins.

This more powerful model is still a lightweight unit, weighing approximately 1,550 kg and has a fuel tank capacity of 240 litres giving up to 30 hour continuous operation. Typical sound level is just 63 dB(A)

Both pumpsets come with integrated fork lift pockets under the bunded skid as standard, allowing for ease of relocating using a telehandler on rough terrain. The units can also be offered as a towable trailer pumpset.

The Pioneer 100SL and Pioneer 150SL, together with the two existing models, 100SM and 100SH, allows for optimized pumping up to 400 m³/hr at heads of over 100 m while still being able to pass 76 mm solids.

This Pioneer Pump series is for a wide range of applications such as dewatering in the construction, quarrying, mining and mineral processing industries as well as for utility applications such as flood disaster relief, flood management and bypass pumping applications. There are also many industrial applications.

Simon Ruffles, General Manager, Pioneer Pump UK Ltd said: "We are not just in the business of manufacturing pumps. We consider ourselves as solution providers.

"With the majority of companies around the world looking to reduce costs, none more so than in the construction, quarrying and mining sectors, I am confident that we can help most companies reduce overall pumping costs, in some circumstances, significantly."

(BMcC)