The Vaughan Chopper Pump is a centrifugal pump with the unique ability of chopping all incoming solids prior to pumping. This not only protects the pump from clogging, but also provides added benefit to downstream components, processes, and the environment.
All wear components are cast steel and heat treated for maximum impact and wear resistance. Combined together, these heavy duty patented components create the ultimate pump for handling severe solids.
This same basic concept has been used in Vaughan’s vertical wet well design for almost a half-century.
Chopping is accomplished by the scissor action of the leading edges of the impeller vanes cutting against the opposing edges of the cutter bar.
All solids are chopped as they enter between the cutter bar and the impeller vanes. The smaller solids are easily pumped by the centrifugal action of the impeller.
Features
Applications
Not Your “Single-Use” Chopper Pump
From food processing to silt ponds, the Vaughan Chopper Pump can handle it.
Paper and Wood Products
Broke Pits
Carbonized Bark
Chip Conveyors
Clarifier Scum
Coal Pile Runoff
Conveyor Gallery Sumps
Drainage Sumps
Fly Ash
Knot and Bark Handling
Log Soaking Vats
Lime Sludge Transfer
Underflow to Dewatering
Woodyard Sumps
Mining / Sand & Gravel
Acid Mine Water
Coal and Sand Washing
Concrete Batch Plant Sumps
Sand and Gravel Silt Ponds
Truck Washdown Sumps
Automotive / Steel
Boiler Blowdown
Chrome Plating Slurries
Coke Breeze
Coke Tar Decanter Sludge
Glass and Plastic
Iron Ore Pellets
Metal, Machine Chips
Mill Scale
Oil Washdown
Paint Overspray Sludge
Roll Grinder Coolant (Swarf)
Food Processing
Blood
Carrots
Chickens
Corn Husks
Ears, Hair, Hooves, Horns
Fat
Feathers
Fish
Fleshings
Hide Pieces
Potatoes
Turkeys
Tomatoes
Contractor Services
Hazardous Waste Cleanup
Lagoon Cleaning
Recycled Solvents
Sludge Dewatering
Storage Tank Cleanout
Chemical / Petrochemical
API Separators
Coke Slurries
Detergent Cakes
Latex Skins
Lead Oxide Slurries
Oil Waste
Plastics
Pumice Hand Cleaner
Refinery Mud
Storm Drains
Sulfur Froth
Wastewater Applications
Raw Sewage: Lift stations, CSO facilities, headworks, prisons, hospitals, restaurants.
Screenings / Septage: Raw concentrated solids including rags, plastics and hair.
Clarifier Scum Pits: Primary or Secondary scum without plugging or air binding.
Sludge Transfer: Eliminates “roping” and clogging in clarifier underflow to thickeners.
RAS / WAS: Continuously conditions Return and Waste Activated Sludges.
Thickened Sludge / Digested Sludge Transfer: Handles high sludge consistencies.
Digester Mixing: Rotamix system conditions and mixes in a dual-zone rotational flow pattern.
Digester Recirculation: Eliminates heat exchanger clogging while conditioning sludge.