Hi Henry,

It's not easy to tell from your photographs, but your pump lining could be nitride bonded silicon carbide. You could stay with the silicon carbide, or you could change to alumina ceramic. Alumina ceramic might be around 3 times more wear resistant than nitride bonded silicon carbide.

Have you thought about rubber lining as an alternative.

You might like to take a look at the following URLs:

Http://www.linatex.com/

Http://www.hamilton-saint-gobain.com/

http://www.omegaslate.com/pumpcom.htm

Regards,

Mike. ■

Henry, Pump relining is a large part of our business with some 200 plus pumps in

the marketplace.

The photos are of a pump casing from a slurry processing circuit that

has our ceramics on it.

The original pump casing was a GIW 10" high chrome white iron casting

with a unit cost of $12,500.00 and a service life of 3500 hours.

This same casing rebuilt with Ceramiweld cost $8700.00 and has a 33%

increase in operating hours.

Pictures reveal minor erosion of the ceramic compound and only one area

where the parent material is exposed.

The areas of wear are easily identified by the large circular pieces of

ceramic.

As the surface wears the larger beads are exposed acting as wear indicators for easy predictive maintenance.

Current and subsequent repair costs for this pump should be 30% of the origianl installation

This casing can be rebuilt with the ceramic at a fraction of the initial cost several times.

Other than PTA their is not another product in the market place that will let you over top with any adgree of sucess.

Feel free to vist our website www.wearsolutions.com ■