Project sheet · ORV-PRJ-2025-011 · Rev A
Client industry
Steel
Integrated steel producer · Western Europe
Equipment
- — 4 × HX-M multistage pumps
- — 4 × 1.2 MW IE4 motors + VFDs
- — VX-250 isolation valves
- — SENTRY S3 sensors
Challenge
Descaling pumps at 230 bar were failing every nine months, each failure halting the hot-strip mill for up to 14 hours.
Solution
Replaced the fixed-speed train with variable-speed multistage pumps, accumulator control and SENTRY vibration monitoring on every bearing.
Result
- MTBF, up from 9
- 30 mo
- MTBF, up from 9
- pumping energy
- −24%
- pumping energy
- unplanned stops in year one
- 0
- unplanned stops in year one








