slurry pumps transfer highly viscous fluids with a lot of solid content. The name of these pumps comes from their job, and they have positive displacement, centrifugal, and vortex pump design. With a sludge pump, you can handle heavy, abrasive, viscous, bio waste, mud, sewage, and even lime slurry. A heavy-duty sludge pump generally contains a chopper impeller that cuts down solids into smaller pieces that easily flow through the mechanism. On the other hand, vortex impellers are installing to create a vacuum inside the instrument to allow the liquid to pass without interfering with internal parts. You can commonly find slurry pumps inside mining, agriculture, construction, and industries where waste fluids go through processing in a progressive cavity. You can also find the centrifugal slurry pump, which has bearing support shafts and split, rubber or metal-lined casing. The configuration of slurry pumps can include horizontal pumps, vertically suspended pumps, and submersible pumps.

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