Known for their wide range of operating pressures, rugged design, and large capacity CFM piston pumps have become the standard unit for many industrial applications. With many serviceable parts,...
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Piston Pumps
Known for their wide range of operating pressures, rugged design, and large capacity CFM piston pumps have become the standard unit for many industrial applications. With many serviceable parts, changeable oil, and easy to access design, Piston pumps will remain an industry standard for years to come.
In the world of modern vacuum pumps there are many different types to choose from. When selecting a vacuum pump it is important to consider the specific application and to understand how the pump will be utilized. The very first types of vacuum pumps were piston pumps. Piston pumps started out as single piston, manually driven units which required a human operator to press the piston in and out creating the vacuum effect. Modern designs are gas and electric motor driven and can contain multiple pistons. All oil sealed vacuum pumps create oil mist and as such oil mist eliminators are now included as a standard feature on most modern piston pumps to reduce the oil mist in the operating environment.
Piston Pump Applications
Aerospace & Aviation
Clearing out of test apparatus and environmental chambers. Vacuum brazing and coating. Emptying of cryogenic vessels and equipment.
Agriculture
Gathering of maple syrup, tobacco curing, grain drying, produce and berry chilling, vegetable cooling, fumigation
Air Conditioning & Refrigeration
Kinney provides high vacuum pumps specifically custom-made for servicing refrigeration units including fat leak detection, degassing, and thorough vacuum drying. Of more importance to manufacturers in the AC and refrigeration market is Kinney’s expansive range of experience in the manufacture and custom design of vacuum pumping carts for production line drying and clearance systems and components.
Tuthill provides rotary/booster pump vacuum pumping systems specially made to deal with the process effluents emanating from carbon deposition in CVI or CVD processes during the manufacture of carbon brake pads utilized by both military and commercial aircraft.
Automotive
Vacuum filling of hydraulic and cooling systems, component leak testing, battery drying, carburetor testing, vacuum lifting and chucking, air conditioning system evacuation, lamp production, protective and decorative coating, mirror coating, interior vacuum forming, and veneering
Biologicals & Drugs
Blood plasma, vitamins, drugs, filtration and distillation of biologicals, and freeze-drying
Chemical Processing
Vacuum dehydration, synthesizing, distillation, purification, and deaeration. Vacuum evaporation, concentration, drying, filtration, and deodorizing.
Electrical
Clearing of fluorescent, electron, neon, and TV tubes, incandescent bulbs, making of transistors, potting of electronic modules, and other semi-conductor tools. Vacuum coating, impregnation, and crystal growing.
When it comes to the electric power field, Kinney makes entire vacuum systems, both portable and stationary, water-cooled and air-cooled, large transformer tilling and drying, for the clearance, for power station condenser clearance, drying and impregnation, and cable filling.
Food Processing
Vacuum sealing of jars and cans, bottles, poultry and cold cuts, meat film packaging, beverage deaeration, freeze-drying of vegetables, fruits, coffee, and other food products, vacuum evisceration.
Laboratories
Research and development, chamber clearance, home vacuum systems.
Emptying of nuclear reactors, bubble chambers, cyclotrons, and accelerators.
Paper
Metallizing, plastic, and decorative coating
Petroleum and Petrochemicals
Vacuum refining and distillation, oil well evacuation, crude yield improvement, oil field flooding water deaeration.
Plastics
Vacuum coating, molding, and forming of plastic.
Textiles
Vacuum drying, solvent extraction, material handling, and dying.
Miscellaneous
Water desalinization. Clearance of chambers utilized in accuracy balancing of high-speed rotary constituents. Museum specimens freeze-drying. Reflective architectural glass vacuum coating. Clearance of wind tunnels and shock tubes. Electron microscopy specimen preparation and reproduction. Optical lenses vacuum coating. Emptying of ballistic ranges.
Regardless of the industrial procedure utilizes vacuum for deaeration, filtration, crystallization, distillation, evaporation, deodorization, or drying, you can be assured that there’s a piston pump out there for you that’s both ecologically compatible and financially feasible.