CarboNet’s Novel Chemistry Combines with Innovative SEEPEX Pumps in Strategic Partnership

From May 5 to 7, 2025, experts from the pump industry met in Graz for the 28th Practitioner Conference. The focus was on solutions for increasing energy efficiency, innovative technologies, and sustainable concepts for industrial applications. The conference demonstrated that pumps are not only central components of technical systems, but also key factors in the transformation toward greater sustainability.

The more different suspensions and solutions are conveyed, the greater the challenges for the pumps. For example, Honeywell Specialty Chemicals GmbH at the Seelze site in Lower Saxony, Germany, had to contend with heavy wear and cost-intensive system downtimes.

Sulzer has launched the Sulzer Energy Optimization Service, an energy efficiency and carbon reduction service that will create a new best practice standard for the operation of centrifugal pumps across their lifecycle for energy intensive industries such as power generation, oil and gas, chemicals and water desalination.

Quality and efficiency – to guarantee both, precision in the handling of fluids is crucial in the chemical industry. This was also the case at a long-standing German chemical plant, which faced particular challenges when homogenising gel chunks of different sizes. The aim was to generate a steady flow with a uniform particle size.

Traditionally, progressive cavity (PC) pumps have been regarded as the best solution for the most demanding fluid pumping challenges. They excel at handling highly viscous, abrasive, and debris-laden media, making them particularly effective in wastewater treatment facilities.

Bringing maximum flexibility and rapid operational readiness, especially in changing or unpredictable working environments, mobile pumping solutions are assuming increasing importance in industrial settings.