• Allows Wet Well and Submersible Pumps to be used for mixing and pump out
  • Ideal for mixing of floating or settled solids.
  • Easy above-deck access to valve and nozzle operators
  • Manual or fully automated operation available
  • Recirculation feature also available with Horizontal and Self-priming configurations
Unit of Measure

Specifications

Scumbuster

N/A The Vaughan Scumbuster® virtually eliminates the effects of a scum blanket and prevents it from reforming by homogenizing and conditioning through a recirculation nozzle. This type of mixing allows digesters to regain their design capacity, extends the time between cleanouts and generates more methane gas. The Vaughan Scumbuster operating with the Vaughan chopper pump on digester recirculation has proven successful not only to eliminate heat exchanger clogging, but also to replace other failed digester mixing systems.

Municipal Wastewater Applications

N/A 1. Raw Sewage - Lift stations, CSO facilities, headworks, prisons, hospitals, restaurants.
2. Screening / Septage - Raw concentrated solids including rags, plastics and hair.
3. Clarifier Scum Pits - Primary or Secondary scum without plugging or air binding.
4. Sludge Transfer - Eliminates "roping" and clogging in clarifier underflow to thickeners.
5. & 6. RAS / WAS - Continuously conditions Return and Waste Activated Sludges.
7. & 8. Thickened Sludge / Digested Sludge Transfer - Handles high sludge consistencies.
9. Digester Mixing - Rotamix® system conditions and mixes in a dual-zone rotational flow pattern.
10. Digester Recirculation - Eliminates heat exchanger clogging while conditioning sludge.
11. F.O.G - (Fats, Oils, and Greases) - Uses organic waste to enhance methane production

Food Processing Applications

N/A With over 40 years of pump experience and in excess of 20,000 pump installations, Vaughan has proven technology in long term, low maintenance and the highest reliability of any chopper pump. The patented chopping action of the cupped-and-sharpened impeller blades chops and conditions all incoming solids, eliminating pump and piping plugging. Vaughan’s unique features necessary to provide this reliability include:
  • Patented chopping design
  • Wear parts heat treated to extend pump life
  • Oversized shafting and bearings
  • Heavy duty mechanical seals
  • Adjustable back pull-out design
  • Almonds
  • Blood
  • Carrots
  • Chickens & Turkeys
  • Corn Husks, stalks
  • Ears, Hair, Hooves, Horns
  • Fat
  • Feathers
  • Fish Offal
  • Fleshings & Hide Pieces
  • Onions
  • Peppers
  • Pomegranates
  • Potatoes
  • Tomatoes
  • Washdown sumps

Features

N/A
  • Valve Operator
    Allows ease of valve control
  • Nozzle Operator
    Adjusts nozzle direction horizontally and vertically
  • Mixing Nozzle
    Hydraulically mixes all solids
  • Ductile Iron Valve
    Allows recirculation or discharge

Industrial Applications

Paper and Wood Products

N/A
  • Broke Pits
  • Carbonized Bark
  • Chip Conveyors
  • Clarifier Scum
  • Coal Pile Runoff
  • Conveyor Gallery Sumps
  • Drainage Sumps
  • Fly Ash
  • Knot and Bark Handling
  • Log Soaking Vats
  • Lime Sludge Transfer
  • Underflow to Dewatering
  • Woodyard Sumps

Food Processing

N/A
  • Blood
  • Carrots
  • Chickens
  • Corn Husks
  • Ears, Hair, Hooves, Horns
  • Fat
  • Feathers
  • Fish
  • Fleshings
  • Hide Pieces
  • Potatoes
  • Turkeys
  • Tomatoes

Automotive / Steel

N/A
  • Boiler Blowdown
  • Chrome Plating Slurries
  • Coke Breeze
  • Coke Tar Decanter Sludge
  • Glass and Plastic
  • Iron Ore Pellets
  • Metal, Machine Chips
  • Mill Scale
  • Oil Washdown
  • Paint Overspray Sludge
  • Roll Grinder Coolant (Swarf)

Chemical / Petrochemical

N/A
  • API Separators
  • Coke Slurries
  • Detergent Cakes
  • Latex Skins
  • Lead Oxide Slurries
  • Oil Waste
  • Plastics
  • Pumice Hand Cleaner
  • Refinery Mud
  • Storm Drains
  • Sulfur Froth

Mining / Sand & Gravel

N/A
  • Acid Mine Water
  • Coal and Sand Washing
  • Concrete Batch Plant Sumps
  • Sand and Gravel Silt Ponds
  • Truck Washdown Sumps

Contractor Services

N/A
  • Hazardous Waste Cleanup
  • Lagoon Cleaning
  • Recycled Solvents
  • Sludge Dewatering
  • Storage Tank Cleanout