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For decades, centrifuge machine builders and shipping companies have installed Imo pumps to supply oil to their centrifuges.
It's an understandable choice where it's hard to find a downside. You could almost say it's a design match made in heaven between the two technologies.
Imo's most widely used pump for centrifugal applications ACE 032 is now up to generation 7. The pump is produced as a private label for Alfa Laval, but is a traditional ACE 032 pump. Common to all generations is that they are externally dimensionally consistent with each other. So you can safely replace an old Imo gen 1 pump or private label pump with a new Imo gen 7 replacement pump or possibly a magnetically coupled shaft seal-free pump and save on future maintenance.
Imo ACE 032 is quiet and has a built-in safety valve/bypass valve with the option of a constant working pressure up to 16 bar. At the same time, the pump is pressure resistant so only a small amount of leakage is bypassed internally in the pump. The pump can build up pressure from 2-3 mPas and all the way up to full pressure of 16 bar from 10 mPas.
Minor Kit G053. There's an old saying that nothing runs without oil, not even the Imo ACE 032. The service strategy from Imo is simple, you buy all normal wear parts including gaskets in a kit, namely Minor kit G053. This kit contains shaft seal and gaskets about 10 parts in total.
The bypass valve can actually withstand being activated over and over again, but naturally wears out during operation, which is why there is a repair kit for this part G070.
Finally, you can change the shafts in a G012 shaft kit, but it's rarely worth it. For the same reason, Imo has developed a bare shaft program that costs the same as G012+G053.
