Portable pump for micro plastic (shallow water)
23.565 - Portable pump for micro plastic particles - shallow water:
Application:
A small, portable pump designed for collecting micro
plastic particles at the water surface; but it can also be used for
a maximum depth of 7 m.
The sampler can run sampling up to 4 different mesh sizes during
one deployment, while keeping a precise account on the total
volume, measured by a flow
meter. The filter plates themselves can easily be
removed thus supporting pumping with fewer or none filters at all
(demands one or more dummy rings).
Due to its very flexible range of filter sizes (ranging from
1000 µm down to 100 µm), it has proven itself a very useful tool in
sampling plastic particles, mostly used in lakes and shallow water.
Other sizes (down to 20 µm) on request; in general, we recommend 50
µm as a minimum; a small mesh size may clog very fast thus reducing
the pump's capacity.
As a counter part to the more well-known Manta Trawl net the
pump's counter gives users a digital read-out of amount of water,
ensuring them a very precise data that is fully able to be compared
with other samples done with similar pumps with very high
scientific guarantees; this is primary due to the fact that the
water pumped is first measured after it has gone through the
filters preventing any faulty data with organic material clogging
up the filter sample area.
Standard delivery comes with 10 m of cable for the power supply.
IMPORTANT: The pump must be deployed by a separate steel wire or similar, as the cable cannot bear the pump's weight. Deploying this pump requires a constant relief of the cable in its entire length, to avoid any cable damage because of the cable's weight.
Technical information:
• Capacity: 12000 L/hour. Approx. 200L/min. at 0 m water column,
with no filters
• Power supply: 230 V AC
• Power consumption: 0,75 kW
• Pump: AISI 304 stainless steel
• Flow meter: Digital flow meter
• 4 filter plates, 3-5000 µm, 500 µm, 300 µm and 100 µm comes as
standard delivery
• Main rack: AISI 316 stainless steel
• Length: 820 mm
• Width: 305 mm
• Height: 305 mm
• Max. depth: 7 m
• Weight: 25 kg