Toolkwip Pumps is providing Australian quarries with exceptionally quiet dewatering solutions.
Quarries are an excellent vessel for water. Like natural lakes, they allow rainwater to pool over time.
This has the side effect of making life very difficult for the quarry operators, who need a dry quarry floor before they can continue extracting materials.
Brenton Mauger, a sales representative at Toolkwip Pumps, said this leads to unwanted downtime.
“Water is a key part of the quarrying process, whether it’s moving it or removing it,” he said.
“Quarries need high-quality pumps they can rely on to maximise the amount of work they can do.
“If a pump fails and needs to be repaired or replaced, that can make an already stressful situation much worse.”
Toolkwip Pumps is the distributor of Selwood pumps, a high-quality, compact drainage pump ideal for quarry applications.
Designed and manufactured in the United Kingdom, Selwood has established a reputation for being user-friendly and low maintenance.
Selwood provides dewatering solutions across the civil construction, pipeline, sewer bypass, mining, and quarry sectors.
In Australia, the Selwood D75 super compact drainage pump has proven popular, thanks to its cost-efficient and “super silent” operation.
D75 Selprime D Pumps centrifugal pumps have been designed for high-volume fluid transfer, with an ability to manage flows of up to 59 cubic metres per hour. The D pumps feature emission-compliant engines and are easy to operate and maintain. Manufactured to a robust engineering standard, the D pumps have been designed to take on the most challenging tasks to remove water of varying conditions, right up to those with fine or larger solids and screened sewage.
The design incorporates a water-tolerant diaphragm air pump that emits zero oil vapour, making it an environmentally friendly solution. In addition, the pump design uses a mechanical seal immersed in an oil bath, allowing it to run dry for extended periods.
The pumps can be made with stainless steel interiors that are durable and highly resistant to corrosion and abrasion. Some pumps can be heat-treated to make them more robust, which are suitable for tough environments such as mines or quarries.
Selwood’s D75 pumps are also exceptionally quiet, which Mauger said is a major selling point for quarries that are looking to minimise noise on site.
The ‘Super Silent’ units are ranked the quietest pumps on the market, based on the EU directive 2000/14/EC. Selwood canopies are engineered to a high technical standard, complete with silencers, protective enclosures, and incorporate sound attenuation on diesel and electric motors.
“One of our customers was surprised by just how quiet it was and asked us to install a light so he could tell when it was running,” Mauger said.
Most of the pumps that Toolkwip provide are adapted to fit individual applications.
“It could be a ceramic coating in the pump, or a telemetry system for remote control,” Mauger said.
“We can include pressure reading devices, flow meters and switches, monitor bearing temperature, the sky’s the limit.”
Toolkwip is committed to reducing its environmental impact by supplying the most efficient equipment possible. All Selwood Eco5 pumps are fully bunded for safety and can run on hydrotreated vegetable oil fuel.
A cloud-based information management telemetry system has fully programmable software and can measure a multitude of pump and engine conditions, including engine speed, fuel status, and engine temperature.
Mauger said one of the key benefits of the D75 pumps is the ease of maintenance.
“They’re very easy to maintain – it doesn’t require any fancy tools, you can service them with a basic tool kit,” he said.
“They’re so well built that all you need is a bit of preventative maintenance.”
Toolkwip Pumps is the authorised distributor of the complete range of Selwood Pumps in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania. The company maintains a full inventory of pumps and parts, as well as providing full-service support which includes an in-house rebuild capability.
Mauger said the company maintains a full range of service technicians for onsite and in-workshop repairs.
“We have service technicians across the east coast and workshops in Queensland and Victoria,” he said.
“We test everything in our workshop before it gets sent out to site and work with our customers to make sure they have the right tool for the job.
“The Selwood pumps are some of the very best on offer. They’re hand assembled to a very high standard and always outperform.”
Toolkwip’s staff will be in attendance at the IQA National Conference and will have the Selwood equipment available for guests to get up close and personal with.
Guests are encouraged to visit the company and learn more about how the pumps can improve a quarry. •
For more information, visit toolkwippumps.com.au