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High Temperature Systems, Inc. partners with melt department managers, supervisors, and engineers to craft complete solutions and solve problems that are beyond the reach of industry off-the-shelf solutions. Drawing from our standard product lines and more than 50 years of experience, we can craft solutions unique to your applications and furnace implementations. These solutions encompass aluminum, zinc and lead operations from die casting to galvanizing.
Circulate Continuously - Transfer on Demand
The ideal solution for these furnaces would be a single compact pump that performs both the circulation function and the transfer function. Such a pump would require a mechanism to redirect the output of the pump impeller to either a circulation nozzle or a transfer riser.
Pump Installation Planning Guidelines – Part 2 – Pump Startup Scheduling
Why Should I Use a Circulation Pump?
Reduce Melt Loss AND Reduce Your Carbon FootPrint!
NEVER RUN A PUMP DRY!
SLOW STARTS FREEZE RISERS
It's worth saying more than once because a frozen riser is a big maintenance issue. In previous post we outlined the procedure for lowering a molten metal pump into the bath. Once the pump is properly lowered into the molten metal, the pump must be turned on or energized.