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Mobil
pump sets
When in the spring of the year 1997 „SIGMA Výzkumný a vývojový ústav,
s.r.o.“ began to develop flood control pump sets, nobody suspected how soon
this type of product would be needed. The first, today named “ The Moravian
Flood” afflicted large territories yet during the summer of the same year.
Besides the prototype, that was sold to the Civic Defence Army Corps in
Olomouc, since that time 7 pieces of mobile pumping stations have been sold,
being used at present by the Fire and Rescue Corps of Brno, Hradec Králové,
Olomouc, Prague, Ostrava cities and regions. One of the mobile pumping stations
was delivered to the Slovak Republic by the “SARMAT” Company and now it is a
part of munitions of the Civic Defence Army Corps. All Fire and Rescue Corps
having been equipped by these sets, inclusive the Slovak Corps, participated in
removal of floods consequences, namely in basins of rivers Vltava and Labe.
From first responses it is evident that our mobile pump sets went
through with credit in those severe operational conditions. No objections have
been raised against the main pump set (motor, coupling, or gearbox with coupling,
pump), on the contrary – those pump sets worked without failures. However,
there were some exceptions as for hard and thus time-consuming assembly of
suction and discharge lines, suction strainer’s clogging, and so on. All users
were asked for filling-in a questionnaire that would be valued and suggestions
would be solved with the view of further innovation and advancement of those
mobile pump sets’ accessories in the interest of higher and even better
operational ability.
Setting
this huge pump set has its own specificity, putting heavy, skilled and
professional demands on operating staff, consisting particularly in evaluation
of losing delivery heads both on the suction side (cavitation) and on the
discharge side (pumping range). Further reserves then reside in the all-round
policy of setting.
During these mobile
pumping stations setting an inspection was realized of those three mobile
pumping stations having been used by Fire and Rescue Corps in Brno, Olomouc and
Ostrava, e.g. in the Terezin’s locality. One of those pumping stations re-pumped
a lagoon beside the Judaic Crematory, another two stations worked in the cascade
at re-pumping a flood’s lake in an open terrain. By click on Details, you
can see MČS SIGMA in operation.
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