Weir Minerals Australia Limited

Cesar Calma

Garry Bruce Glaves

Hugh Duong

Disclosed is side liner for a centrifugal pump. The side liner comprises an aperture for access to a central chamber of the centrifugal pump through the side liner. The side liner also comprises a plurality of grooves on a surface contacting material pumped by the centrifugal pump, the plurality of grooves extending radially from an inner edge of the surface, located near the aperture, to an outer edge.

Grooved side liner for centrifugal pump

The present invention relates to a pump apparatus for reducing the size of suspended solids in a fluid prior to pumping the fluid through a pump, comprising: a processing chamber having an inner side wall, the inner side wall comprising one or more formations adapted to reduce the size of suspended solids in the fluid; an inlet to the processing chamber having a diameter Dfor receiving the fluid; an outlet from the processing chamber having a diameter Dfor conveying the fluid to the pump; and a central axis extending from a center of the inlet and a center of the outlet, wherein the one or more formations extend in a general direction from the inlet to the outlet, and wherein the processing chamber is frustoconical in shape and D>D.

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Penshurst, Australia

Cesar Calma