Introducing Viking Pump’s NEW Generation of Pumps

As a masterclass in engineering design and manufacturing flexibility, Viking Pump has re-designed its heavy-duty alloy pumps, both steel and stainless steel, in the most ingenious ways. These new models reduce price and lead time by significantly reducing the number of casings and brackets for manufacturing simplification, while simultaneously providing more options for porting and shaft sealing, all while adding many great new standard features.

Best of all, the new pumps are interchangeable, both dimensionally and performance-wise, with Viking’s existing steel 123A, 4123A, 223A, and 4223A series, and the stainless steel 127A, 4127A, 227A and 4227A series, and the 724 and 4724 series which they will mostly replace.

The new modular pumps have similar model numbering to the previous generation, but end in “C” instead of “A.” See the full range of Viking Heavy Duty pumps below (fig. 1), with the new modular pumps shown in red.

Addressing the Big Question: Why?

Why would Viking Pump change its highly successful range of alloy pumps? The existing series are workhorse internal gear pumps used across the chemical, general industrial and food processing industries.

But with literally tens of thousands of possible configurations, it was difficult for Viking distributors to predict and inventory exactly what their customers would need. So if a pump user wanted a particular configuration they either had to wait for a bespoke pump or were forced to accept tradeoffs - a pump with whatever feature set was available in stock at the local distributor.

Stainless Steel

The stainless steel pumps are primarily used for:

• Corrosive chemicals (e.g. acids and bases).
• Any process where the pumps will be flushed with water or steam (e.g. sugar processing).
• Low-hazard food processing (e.g. edible oils).
• Very low temperature processes to -120⁰F / -85⁰C (e.g. silicone oil in freeze dryers)
• For use outdoors in very cold climates.

Steel

The steel models are generally used for:

• Flammable or hazardous liquids (e.g. fuels, petroleum and petrochemicals) where thermal cracking of iron would be a concern in the event of a fire-fighting water deluge.
• Very high temperatures to 800⁰F / 430⁰C (e.g. heat transfer fluids, pitch, polystyrene) where iron or stainless steel is not suitable.

You can find details regarding the new modular pump designs in future blogs covering their key components: the new ProPort™ casings and the new U-Plus™ brackets.