EDDY Pump Education Center
The goal of this page is to provide slurry pump and dredge selection help, education and white papers for client education.
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US Navy Cost Reduction Study
Real-world projects feature actual client results and studies with our pumps and dredging products. Click here to see product specifications and brochures. See Case Studies Here.
Overview, TOC conducted for the US Navy to evaluate the EDDY Pump vs competition pump.
Total Operational Cost Analysis for US Navy to evaluate the EDDY Pump vs competition pump.
Pump and Dredge Educational Articles
Lowest Cost of Ownership for Slurry Pumps
What are the Benefits of the Seal Support System on an EDDY Pump?
EDDY Pump Corporation, along with the leading seal manufacturing companies, achieved their goal of developing the industry’s longest-lasting mechanical seal system.
Renting vs. Buying Heavy Equipment
EDDY Pump has decades of experience providing dredge and slurry pump products to countless companies worldwide for a wide variety of industrial applications.
EDDY Pump Selection Guide
Depending on your project needs, the EDDY Pump can be deployed to suit your application. Use this guide to help determine the setup that is right for you.
Coal Ash Slurry – Pump Selection 101
Learn about coal ash pumping and selecting the best slurry pump for coal ash and power plant applications.
Dredge Pump Selection 101
Dredge Pump Selection Help 101. Selecting a dredge pump can be a challenging process. Learn first hand about choosing the most efficient slurry pump for your project.
The 5 Musts For Choosing the Best Slurry Pump
Choosing the correct slurry pump for your application can be a difficult task. Learn about the top 5 factors you must consider when choosing a slurry pump.
How to Select a Slurry Pump 101
The purpose of this article is to provide an understanding of the important considerations for selecting a slurry pump for your application.
Slurry Hose Selection 101
Choosing a correct slurry hose setup depends on several factors. Learn about slurry hose selection and what to look out for when selecting a new hose.
Variable Frequency Drives 101 – All You Need to Know About VFDs
Learn the ins and outs of what a variable frequency drive does and how VFDs affect a slurry pumping operation.
Slurry Pipeline Changes: What Effect it Can Have on Your Operation
Find out what happens when certain changes are made to an existing slurry pipeline and how to prevent unnecessary downtime.
EDDY Pump vs. Diaphragm Pumps
A diaphragm pump is a type of positive displacement pump. Learn about the differences in mechanics between the EDDY Pump and the diaphragm pump.
What is a Vortex Pump?
A vortex pump, while similar in operation, cannot match the efficiency of the EDDY Pump. Discover why efficiency matters when it comes to pumps.
Lime Slurry Pumps
Lime slurry can be an unforgiving material to pump because it is inherently abrasive, corrosive, has high particulate, and high viscosity. Learn what makes the EDDY Pump the best choice for lime slurries.
The Top Solids Handling Pump
Learn the ins and outs of what to look out for when pumping solids and what makes a solids-handling pump succeed in a variety of different pumping applications.
Food Waste Pump – Ground Food Disposal Pumps
Learn how the EDDY Pump can be used in for a variety of food processing and food waste applications to save companies thousands of dollars per year in production costs.
Froth Pumps for Mining, Paper/Pulp, and Wastewater Applications
Pumps run less efficiently when pumping air entrained liquids. Find out how the EDDY Pump can excel at pumping frothy slurries.
Challenges Pumping Abrasive Slurry
Since slurries, by definition, contain small particles, they are often abrasive and can quickly wear down pump and pipeline components, especially if the pump is not used most effectively. Learn about the best practices when dealing with abrasives.
Difficulties Pumping Corrosive and Low pH Slurries
With chemical processing, materials quickly wear down standard pump components unless the proper steps are taken to safeguard your equipment.
The Top 5 Pumps Found on Marine Ships
Explore the top 5 pumps found on ocean-faring vessels, and the applications that they help to power.
Difficulties When Pumping High Viscosity Fluids
Fluid viscosity is an important property of fluids that cannot be overlooked. Learn what viscosity means for your pump selection.
Subsea Mining – Deep Sea Ocean Mining & Seafloor Dredging Operations
The subsea mining industry is still in its infancy. What advancements make it possible and what challenges still need to be overcome?
Using Self-Priming Pumps to Replace Vacuum Trucks
Learn how EDDY Self-Priming Pump units can be used in place of vacuum trucks for a variety of industrial applications to save your company thousands of dollars per year.
Pump and Dredging Terms Glossary
Discover the pump and dredging terms you need to know. Common terminology and a quick reference guide to the industry language.
Digester Tank Cleanout
Digesters are used in some industrial processes for breaking down sludge and other biowastes. Find out how the EDDY Pump is perfectly equipped for cleaning and pumping digester tanks.
Flooded Suction, Submersible, or Self-Priming Pumps – Choosing the Right Pump Setup
It is very important to choose the right pump orientation in order to maximize your pump capability. These three setups are flooded suction, submersible, and self-priming.
How Amphibious Excavators Enhance Wetland Dredging
When working in swamps, marshes, and other wet environments, nothing beats the versatility of the amphibious undercarriage for your excavators.
How to Prevent Pipeline Clogging While Pumping
Pipeline clogs can happen in many pump applications. In order to minimize this issue, it’s important to choose the right pipeline, size, and pump with the correct power.
When To Use a Cutterhead, Jetting System, Mixer, or Auger Dredge
Agitating the sediment to be pumped is sometimes necessary for optimal pump operations. Learn what tools are used for agitating sediment in dredging applications.
Settling Tank Desludging, Cleanup, Pumping
Settling tank desludging, cleanup and pumping information. Review how to pick a pump for cleaning clarifiers and settling tanks. Common client questions answered.
What is a Non-clog Pump?
Non-clog pumps can drastically improve production in high solids pumping applications. Efficiently pump high viscosity, abrasive, solids heavy material using EDDY Pumps unique design
Drilling Mud Transfer Pumps
Drilling mud is the thick, viscous mud used in oil and gas drilling operations. Learn about how this mud is transported and disposed of with the use of EDDY Pumps.
What You Need to Know About Self Priming Pumps
EDDY Self Priming Pumps integrate a vacuum-based priming unit, which enables the EDDY Pump to operate at peak performance in a variety of applications.
What You Need to Know About Submersible Pumps
A submersible pump is used to move liquids from one point to another. The major difference between a submersible pump and any other type is that it is completely submerged in the liquid that it is required to pump. Learn more about submersible pumps here.
Mine Waste and Disposal Methods
Learn about different types of mine waste and how it is stored and handled after the mining operation has completed.
Submersible Sewage Pumps – Wet Wipes Clogging Solution
Flushable wipes aren’t so flushable after all… find out how they’ve been wreaking havoc on global pumping systems and the solutions being rolled out to prevent persistent clogging.
What You Need To Look Out For When Dewatering
Beginners guide on dewatering projects and the various methods of how dewatering is performed depending on the application. Find out what to look out for when starting a dewatering job.
The Best Pumps for Producing Biofuel
One of the fastest rising sectors of the energy industry is the production of biofuels. Learn about how biofuel and biodiesel are produced and what pumps are the most efficient.
The Top 4 Pumps Found in the Chemical Industry
The chemical industry employs the use of many types of pumps adapted for highly corrosive materials. Learn about the top four pumps used in this industry and their applications.
How Sugar is Processed With the Help of Pumps
Discover how sugar is processed from sugar cane and what pumps are required during the process.
Pump Applications in the Sugar Production Industry
Find out how the sugar production industry creates additional pump applications including paper and pulp production and how EDDY Pump can be used to increase production rates.
Paste Pumping Overview
A paste is one of the toughest materials to pump effectively. Learn about efficient paste pumping principles and how the EDDY Pump is well equipped for the challenge.
NPSH & How it Relates to Slurry Pumps
Learn more about NPSH (Net Positive Suction Head) and how it can affect performance of slurry pumps.
Grit Pump – Wastewater Transport
Learn the ins and outs of high-efficiency grit pumps, such as the EDDY Pump and how it can benefit your grit pumping operations.
How Microtunneling Utilize Slurry Pumps
Learn how microtunneling is performed and how important of a roll slurry pumps play in a successful job.
Smart Pumps for Dredging, Slurry and Industrial Process Pumping
The newest line of smart pumps will revolutionize the industry by monitoring all aspects of the pumping process, ensuring optimal production and longer pump life.
Hydraulic Motors vs Electric Motors for Operating Slurry Pumps
Learn about the differences between using electric motors and hydraulic motors for slurry pump applications.
Slurry Pipeline Friction Loss Explained
Discover what slurry pipeline friction loss is all about and how it can hinder your pumping application when pumping heavy slurries.
Cleaning Frac Tanks With EDDY Pump Technology
Learn about the new way to clean out abrasive frac tanks using the superior engineered EDDY Pump. Go to YouTube and type in the search field: How to clean a frac tank…we can do better!
Replacing Centrifugal or Trash Pumps in Oil & Gas Drilling Operations
Learn about the drawbacks of utilizing centrifugal and trash pumps in oil/gas drilling operations and how the EDDY Pump can solve problems associated with these pumps.
Using Slurry Pumps to Clean out Sand Traps Used in Oil/Gas Drilling Operations
Learn about some of the optimal ways to clean out sand traps commonly found on oil & gas drilling sites.
The Cost of a Malfunctioning Slurry Pumps
Learn about the most common types of pump malfunctions, how to prevent them, and how the EDDY Pump is the longest lasting pump when it comes to an abrasive slurry.
Eddy Current Pumps - Harnessing the Power of a Tornado
Our extensive knowledge of fluid dynamics as it relates to pumps allows us to provide robust, optimized slurry pumps and dredging equipment with adjoining pipelines and hoses.
MFT Ponds - Mature Fine Tailings Ponds - Oil Sands Pumping
Learn How EDDY Pump Equipment can Enhance Oil Sands Projects for MFT Ponds – Mature Fine Tailings Ponds in addition to other oil sands applications
Wireless Doppler Flowmeters and Why They Are Essential to Dredging Projects
Solar Powered Slurry Pumps - Lowest Carbon Footprint Pumps and Dredges on the Market
Learn how the advancement of solar energy can be used to power heavy duty industrial and slurry process pumps.
EDDY Pump vs. Positive Displacement Pumps
Positive displacement pumps operate completely different from the EDDY Pump. Learn about the differences in mechanics and how the EDDY Pump can excel where a PD pump cannot.
Fluid Mixing Pumps – Offering Greater Value than Traditional Mixers
Oftentimes, inline mixing pumps are used in applications that involve fluids with high solids content.
High Viscosity & High Specific Gravity How they Affect Pumping
Dredging From a Barge
Removing Sargassum With Dredge Pumps
Revolutionize HDPE Pipe Fusion
The time required to fuse together 3000 feet of 12-inch HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene) pipe can vary depending on several factors, including the experience of the personnel, the fusion equipment…
9 Major Reasons of Mechanical Seal Failure in Slurry Pumps
There are several reasons for mechanical seal failures. However, once the seal fails, it causes huge operational and resource loss.
Renting or Outsourcing Dredge
Whether to rent or outsource a dredge depends on multiple factors. Even before you decide to rent or outsource a dredge, you must know both the advantages and disadvantages of renting and outsourcing a dredge.
What is Hydraulic Dredging? | Importance, Process, Advantages
EDDY Pump is a global leader in hydraulic dredging. Here are some insights of why hydraulic dredging has become the need of the hour in today’s world.
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