Melbourne Water has launched the first stage of an ambitious program to transform our water transfer network.

Here, we look at the two main categories of couplings and what factors need to be considered during the selection process.

Pump Industry magazine spoke to Andrew Chamberlin, Project Manager -Energy at QFF, about the Energy Savers Program and one of the many farms that have benefited from it.

Deep in the centre of Western Australia lies one of the state’s largest single site undeveloped gold projects, the Wiluna mine. Making up part of the larger Wiluna Mining Operation, the Wiluna mine holds great potential for expansion, and Wiluna Mining (formally Blackham Resources), the company responsible for the development of the mine, has big plans for the project. A major expansion of the mine including dewatering works, and the construction of a tailings storage facility and sulphide flotation plant – is currently underway.

Equipment reliability at a major oil refinery in Western Australia ranks very high among the prominent users of plant-wide oil mist. Worldwide, there are now an estimated 160,000 process pumps and 50,000 electric motors that are lubricated with oil mist as of 2019. Well over 3,000 plant-wide oil mist systems are presently operating in close to 100 countries around the world; these range from the wind-blown Caribbean to the dry heat of Saudi Arabia, from humid Singapore and semi-tropical Venezuela to the wintery cold of Northwestern Canada.

Shoalhaven Water (SW) is now concluding a three-year multi-generational leap in its remote telemetry systems. SW had identified the need to improve a number of areas within its current organisation-wide Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system including the data analytics capability to provide better intelligence for its business.