HiCone™: JOIN THE PUMP REVOLUTION

What can you expect from our progressing cavity pump revolution?

1. An adjustment system unlike any other on the market -- allowing you to easily (or automatically) restore performance losses due to wear. 
    
2. Significantly increased Rotor/Stator life due to the ability to regain compression with simple adjustments instead of replacing worn parts. 
    
3. Long-term cost savings due to the reduced need for spare parts, fewer repairs, and less downtime
    
4. Sizing matching and "Drop-in replacements" - pump options that match existing footprints and critical dimensions for all major progressing cavity pump manufacturers. Give us the model number, and we will let you know if we have a drop-in replacement. 
    
5. The option to automatically retract the stator at start-up, requiring less power consumption and allowing for a less expensive drive
    
6. A Vogelsang signature service-in-place design for fast, simple repairs when it is needed

 

Let's Dive into it

The combined features of our unique geometry and innovative adjustment system extends the service life of the new HiCone progressive cavity pump.

 

Overview

The progressive cavity pump, redefined. The HiCone series features a revolutionary conical geometry and unique adjustment system, which enables longer service life than ever before while significantly reducing overall lifecycle costs.

The adjustable stator compression is extraordinarily easy to operate, allowing the pump to adapt quickly and easily to changing application conditions. At the touch of a button or a mouse click in the control, the pump elements can be directly and precisely adjusted to operating parameters such as pressure, viscosity, or temperature. This keeps energy consumption and erosion of the wear parts at a minimum.

 

FAQ

Q: "Can I replace my existing Moyno/Seepex/Netzcsh/other with HiCone?

*A: Vogelsang HiCone Progressing cavity pumps offer drop-in replacements for all major manufacturers. If you have a Seepex™, Moyno™, or Netzsch™ pump, we have your back. Give us the model number, and we will let you know if we have a drop-in replacement. It's as simple as that. 

 

Q: "Pricing?"

*A: Vogelsang HiCone is the most competitively priced, longest-lasting progressing cavity pump on the market today. Our successful installations replacing Seepex™, Netzsch™, and Wangen™ have provided an average of more than 2.5 times longer life in every replacement we have made. That means a significantly longer life between stator changes and huge savings in life cycle costs. 

 

Q: "How is the Pump serviced?"

A: Vogelsang HiCone offers patented in-place maintenance and repair capability and its HiCone quick service options, allowing for a rotor and state, or change in line, in less than 30 minutes. There is no other manufacturer on the market today that offers a quicker exchange of wear parts than the HiCone. 

*Seepex, a division of Ingersoll Rand Davidson, NC; Netzsch, under the umbrella of Erich NETZSCH B.V. & Co. Holding, KG Selb, Germany, and Wagen, Pumpenfabrik Wangen GmbH, Allgäu, Germany;and Moyno™ is a registered trademark of NOV Inc., Houston, Texas which are in no way affiliated with Vogelsang.

 

Don't Repair, Re-Adjust

HiCone isn't the first adjustable progressive cavity pump.
It's the first pump to do it right.

Unlike pumps with adjustability features that crush and deform the stator or cannot handle high pressures, Vogelsang's adjustment system overcomes these issues with an easy-to-operator design. Vogelsang's patent-pending adjustment system utilizes a conical geometry and a retractable stator to regain compression and overcome wear without part changes.

Here's how it works:

HiCone™ pumps allow you to advance the cone-shaped rotor into the mated cone-shaped stator by simply rotating a single adjusting nut or through an automated drive during operation.

This provides renewed compression of the stator elastomer against the rotor. This is accomplished without changing the shape of the cavity or deforming the sealing line. The benefit is that the same flows and pressures are achieved when the pump was new.

Adjust for changing conditions

The unique, forward-tapering geometry of the rotor and stator also enables ideal adjustment to the given flow medium, so as conditions or materials change, so can the pumps.

Above, we see the manual version of the adjustment design.

Above, we see a representation of the stator being advanced forward to regain compression.

Below we see how the gap caused by wear is closed, regaining performance that normally requires parts replacement.

The result is a service life several times longer than that of conventional progressive cavity pumps. This greatly reduces downtime and relieves the burden on service techs.

Plant operators benefit from an unprecedented increase in service life and a far superior cost/performance ratio when using a HiCone progressive cavity pump compared to conventionally designed PC pump models.

 

Quick-Service repair-in-place functionality

Vogelsang's already-proven CC series pumps (our PC pump designed for system solutions) have a proven QuickSerive design that we've adapted to the HiCone Series. So, when the pump needs to be serviced, it can be completed "in-place," without disconnecting it from the piping.

The current wear status of the pumping elements can be displayed continuously. If a service call is required, it can now be planned in advance. As shown above, the flange connection and swiveling mechanism enable quick and easy replacement of the pumping elements, with no need to remove the pump from the pipe system. In just a few simple steps, the stator and rotor can be removed and replaced as a complete unit – including the cardan shaft, if necessary. Replacing the pre-assembled mechanical seal is just as easy. It is easily accessed from the side after removing the geared motor without pipe removal.

Removal of the Rotor and Stator:

1. Unbolt the Inclined Flange & Intermediate Flange
2. Lift upward and unthread the tie rod, separating the rotor from the drivetrain
3. Remove Rotor and Stator without unbolting the piping

 

Removing Safety Concerns, Ultimate Convenience

Other manufacturers' past attempts to design an adjusting system required holding the stator elastomer in place with a temporary clamshell or metallic “slats.” These multi-component designs pose risks such as possible rupture and leakage. The escaping of pumped liquids can allow exposure to biohazards or dangerous chemicals.

Furthermore, these old methods of compression adjustment were tedious to perform and tended to deform the cavities of the pump, leading to poor performance and unpredictable wear.

Conversely, Vogelsang’s design of the HiCone incorporates a stator exterior that is one continuous steel tube, making leaking of pumped material virtually impossible. This also allows for precise internal compression adjustments utilizing the advantages of HiCone geometry, and an easy-to-perform adjustment setting is available as a manual or automatic system.

 

 

Long-Term Cost Savings

The ability to make these adjustments in a simple and timely manner significantly reduces spare parts consumption. The diagram below suggests the life cycle of a typical PC pump (gray line) compared to HiCone (red line). You’ll see that HiCone is adjusted to regain performance, as compared to the typical process for maintaining a standard PC pump, which requires a stator replacement and then rotor and stator replacement, in some cases, multiple times before HiCone rotor and stator needs replaced. So not only does HiCone reduce the need for regular parts purchases, but it eliminates the labor and downtime associated with regaining performance and replaces it with a simple adjustment.

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Manual vs. Automatic

While our standard manual HiCone will increase your parts' wear life, you can step up your game with the Automatic option. Enjoy the comfort of the automatic ramp-up sequence and adjustment during operation.

Automatic Version

The automatic version incorporates a separate servo-motor, gearbox, and variable frequency drive to adjust the rotor-stator alignment automatically and precisely. When the pump is at rest, the auto-adjust feature retracts the rotor from the stator to reduce the contact between the two, drastically reducing the start-up motor torque required to initiate rotation. Once the rotor is up to speed, the auto-adjust repositions the rotor into the stator over several seconds to develop the desired pump performance. Because start-up torque is reduced, the HiCone automatic can operate using a lower horsepower motor and a smaller variable frequency drive (VFD), reducing the capital costs and installation time for the pump and all the associated electrical components and wiring. The savings realized from using a smaller motor, VFD, and ancillary electrical components more than offset the premium to select the automatic version, and substantial energy savings during operation accumulate over the pump's life, reducing the long-term cost of ownership.

Another benefit of the automatic version is that pump speed and rotor/stator adjustment can be remotely operated by various signal sources, such as a pressure transducer, pressure switch, or a power monitoring device measuring motor amp draw. The future of autonomous control is near.
 

 

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