NETZSCH to Highlight Complex Fluid Pumping Solutions for Lithium Battery Manufacturing

NETZSCH to Highlight Complex Fluid Pumping Solutions for Lithium Battery Manufacturing (Image source: Netzsch Pumps USA)
NETZSCH NEMO Progressing Cavity Pumps are a pumping technology solution for the battery manufacturing process and the standard in the industry because of their advanced capabilities. They can convey this industry’s wide range of abrasive slurries and harsh fluids without pulsation and meter them with extremely high precision. No metal wearing wetted parts and non-metallic lubrication-free flexible shaft options ensure no metal contamination of the products. These pumps can also operate at slow
speeds supplying very steady, low flows. NEMO pumps can be provided with many different materials of construction including abrasion resistant stainless steel, tungsten carbide coated and solid ceramic rotors, and one of over 30 stator elastomers. NETZSCH formulates the elastomer compounds in-house to best withstand all of the harsh chemicals and solvents in the liquids.
NEMO Progressing Cavity Pumps particularly excel in the very demanding electrode coating and slurry mixing applications. For coating applications, these pumps continuously feed even highly viscous slurries with high concentrations of solids in a pulsation-free manner to the coating system achieving the critical thin and uniform coating thickness. The mixing pumps accurately meter the raw materials for a perfect mix to ensure consistent and optimum battery performance. NEMO pumps also precisely meter or transfer ceramic slurries, electrolytes, adhesives, resins, and many other battery process fluids including those with aggressive solvents.
NETZSCH PERIPRO Peristaltic Pumps have a heavy duty construction for demanding applications, with heavy duty, precision machined elastomer hoses for +/-1% flow accuracy and large, maintenance-free rollers for long service life. These pumps are ideal for complex slurry fluids, that are abrasive, corrosive, viscous, and shear-sensitive, delicate products, which only come in contact with the elastomer hose. Ultimately, this pump design provides energy savings up to 30%, and requires 90% less lubricant when compared to other peristaltic pumps using sliding shoe design technology.
Among the particular features of PERIPRO Peristaltic Pumps that make them ideal for lithium battery manufacturing includes the fact that it is a seal-less design, so no hazardous vapors or emissions can escape. Additionally, slurries up to 70% solids are easily conveyed with no exotic, hard alloys required for abrasion resistance. The hose materials have excellent chemical resistance and are available in several elastomeric choices to permit pumping a wide range of fluids containing aggressive chemicals.
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