Your April News from Hydra -Tech Pumps

In the glamorous life of dewatering pumps and hydraulic power units, typically used for applications like sewer bypass and sludge pumping among other fun jobs, our equipment doesn’t get a lot of press. Every once in a while, even if we weren’t the focus of the news, our equipment pops up in the coolest places.

The backstory. In the American Navy’s arsenal, exists the F35-C – the first and world’s only long range stealth strike fighter designed exclusively for Navy carrier operations. The Navy and Marines that get to fly this jet call it a game changer. On January 24^th in the South China Sea, a 337 million dollar United States Navy F-35C went down after a training mishap whereby the plane hit the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and sunk to a depth of approximately 12,400 feet. Seven sailors including the pilot who ejected were injured but fortunately no lives were lost. Because of the cost and the advanced technology this jet has, the Navy immediately set about recovering the F35-C before anyone else could.

Fast forward to March 3^rd and a story about the successful retrieval of this jet from the bottom of the South China Sea by the US Navy. One of our eagle-eyed employees, who was watching the story about the recovery, spotted a familiar sight in a still shot of the tarped plane sitting on the deck of the recovery vessel. In the foreground of the photo showing the recovered plane was a distinct yellow piece of equipment that we affectionately called “the school bus” – a Hydra-Tech Pumps hydraulic power unit that was supplied to a Navy subcontractor in November of 2015.

The HT250DQV is, to date, the largest sound attenuated diesel engine hydraulic power unit that Hydra-Tech has completed. After it left Hydra-Tech Pumps it went to Alabama where it underwent rigorous sea worthy testing including a drop test, high and low temperature tests, and inclement weather tests including horizonal rain testing. Six years later is it onboard a Navy vessel in the South China Sea presumably supporting the efforts to successfully recover the F35-C.

One of the stories we found at the time covering the news (if you want to read more about the recovery of the jet) -

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-china-sea-us-navy-recovers-wreckage-of-f-35c-jet-that-crashed-into-aircraft-carrier/ar-AAUzpQZ?ocid=uxbndlbing

A pretty cool Hydra-Tech Pumps equipment sighting if we do say so ourselves. If you want to see some footage of an F35-C in action check out one a many videos on the internet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaiap_P-bg.

Pump of the Month - S6TC

Hydra-Tech’s S6TC, 6” hydraulic submersible trash pump is lightweight, compact and able to pass large solids and stringy materials. It is designed specifically to pass through a 21" manhole. This versatile top discharge pump uses a high efficiency two vane closed channel impeller with adjustable wear surface.

The S6TC pump handles hydraulic inputs up to 28 gpm at pressures to 3000 PSI and will continue to move water at heads up to 120 feet. Beyond water, the S6TC can handle semi-solids measuring up to three inches. For more information please contact Hydra-Tech at phone number 570-645-3779, our website www.hdyra-tech.com or email htpump@hydra-tech.com.

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Training Day

It is always nice when a customer comes and picks up a new piece of equipment from Hydra-Tech Pumps – this isn’t something that happens too often, but we enjoy it when it does. In early March a customer who has worked with Hydra-Tech Pumps for close to 30 years, and who resells our equipment, along with a number of people from a local Sanitary Authority in Pennsylvania who would ultimately take possession of the system, visited our location for some training and to take their system home.

We started with some time in the conference room going over in detail the 4” Low Profile Shredder pump. We reviewed everything from the proper connection of the pump to the hydraulic power unit, to the proper use of the pumps all the way down to the inner workings of the pump and disassembly / reassembly and troubleshooting. https://hydra-tech.com/product/s4shr-lp/

Then it was time to review the custom hydraulic power unit that was chosen – a sound attenuated 49 horsepower hydraulic power unit with a Yanmar Tier 4 Final liquid cooled engine that would deliver Hydraulic Outputs up to 22gpm @ 2900psi. The HPU included a number of customer requested specials like custom fork pockets, customer quick disconnect couplers, an electrically powered hose reel, and 150’ of pressure and return hydraulic hose on the powered hose reel. The customer supplied a utility trailer that we rehabilitated and customized to not only carry the hydraulic power unit and powered hose reel and hydraulic hose but also have a secure nest for the 4” shredder pump and storage for discharge hose as well. https://hydra-tech.com/product/ht50dqv/

After the “classroom” session was complete, everyone walked out the conference room doors and got hands on with the system. Being able to open the doors and see everything that was just presented in a power point was extremely helpful for those in attendance. After an up close and personal review of the system and some questions and answers, the training wrapped up, the customer connected the trailed to their truck and headed home with their new workhorse system in tow.