Dredge Pumps
Dredge pumps are one of the most robust equipment for moving material. Dredging utilizes these high-powered pumps to transfer solids and liquids through a pipeline over a set distance and often involves working in sensitive or harsh conditions. The dredge pumps are abrasive-resistant, making them ideal for grinding through rocks, sludge, sand, slurry, and many other objects.
Selecting the correct dredge system is critical for the success of a project. With decades of experience, DAE Pumps produces reliable dredge pumps that continuously transfer large solids with little mechanical downtime, and at affordable prices. The open impeller design and powerful suction of the DAE Pumps dredge pumps allow for easy passage of large solids. Thus, our dredge pumps lead the industry in durability and power. The hi-chrome body with a Brinell hardness of 600, offering the ultimate wear protection. They grind through with ease the material that typically clogs, wears, and breaks other dredge pumps.
DAE Pumps dredge pumps can be configured hydraulically, electrically, or diesel-driven to fit all your dredging needs. As a result, we make a variety of dredging systems to choose from. Check out our robust selection of cable-deployed dredge pumps, excavator-mounted dredge pumps, pontoon dredge pumps (mini dredges), and diver-operated dredges and pumps. The versatile cable-deployed and excavator dredge pumps are interchangeable and can be configured to your specific requirement accordingly.
Cable-Deployed Dredge Pumps
Cable-deployed dredge pumps are the preferred tools to dredge or pump material from waterways or to unload barges. These powerful pumps can reach depths of up to 100-ft in water and pump solids at distances of over a mile reaching a rate of up to 1000 cubic yards of material per hour.
Excavator Dredge Pumps
Excavator dredge pumps are a game-changer for small to medium scale dredging projects. Hydraulic or electric excavator mounted dredge pumps allow contractors to perform their dredging by mounting a 4-inch to 16-inch pump on the end of an excavator boom. As a result, they can move large amounts of material up to 12,000 GPM with heads up to 400 feet.
Pontoon Dredge Pumps
Small pontoon dredge pumps or mini dredges are ideal for lagoons, basins, ponds, and other smaller dredging projects. Their robust and simple design allows a single operator to run a dredge remotely and most importantly, pump at the highest production rates without harming the poly, clay, or concrete liners.
Diver-Operated Dredges and Pumps
Diver-operated dredges and pumps get into areas where conventional dredging equipment cannot reach for removing large quantities of sediments and soils. Dredge around water intakes, wet-well, tanks, cooling towers, and other locations. Also use for wastewater treatment plants, dams, river terminals, power plants, paper/pulp mills, and other industrial facilities.
Dredge Pump Applications
DAE Pumps sand and gravel dredge pumps are ideal for a variety of applications, including dredging dams, ports, marinas, rivers, canals, lakes, ponds, and more. Ensuring water quality and capacity are essential in hydroelectric and water supply dams, therefore making the DAE Pumps dredge pumps perfect for removing excess sand, gravel, and silt. Clearing sediment and contaminates from riverbeds, channels, canals, and oceans help restore safe navigation and shoreline formations, and dredging lakes and ponds clean and remove contaminants and tailing. Primarily, as ocean currents move sediments, the seafloor slowly rises, lowering the depth of marinas and ports. Furthermore, rivers and streams also carry sediment and deposit it along banks. Dredging ensures safe access for boats and other water vessels.
Our dredge pumps are also used as barge pumps for offloading materials like mud and clay from maintenance dredging projects. Thusly, these barge pumps are attached to excavators on large pontoons and suction the material from the barges to a disposal area.
Features of DAE Pumps Dredge Pumps
- Capable of Pumping Wide Array of Materials
- Large Selection of Pumps and Configurations
- Pump Abrasive and Gritty Material with Ease
- High Tolerance Between Impeller and Pump Casing, Allowing Larger Solids
- Low Maintenance
Portable Dredge Pumps
The portable dredge pumps by DAE Pumps offer a great advantage to many companies and individuals with smaller dredging projects. These dredge pumps are lighter weight and come with mobile units to transport the dredge systems. Consequently, the pontoon dredge pumps and diver-operated pumps make ideal portable pond suction dredges, lagoon dredging, and river mining equipment, and others types of dredging gear.
Use Portable Dredge Pumps in:
- Lagoons and Lakes
- Irrigation Canals & Basins
- Mine Tailing Ponds
- Municipal Sewage
- Energy Ash Ponds
- Agriculture Manure Ponds
- Paper & Pulp Basins and Ponds
- Settling Tanks & Digester Tanks
- Dewatering
Need Help Selecting a Dredge Pump?
For help selecting the most efficient pump for your project, call us at (760) 821-8112 or submit a request.
What is a Dredge Pump
A dredge pump is a heavy-duty centrifugal pump that moves sediment, sand, gravel, debris, and a variety of other solids from the surface floor through a pipe or hose to a discharge site. The dredge pump can handle abrasive granular materials and solids of various sizes and weights by putting them into suspension. As a result, the suspension of the material allow the solids to move through the pipeline. Dredge pumps move slurry, sand, sludge, and solids that most pumps cannot handle because of their design and the type of material they are made of.
There are many types, sizes, and powers of dredge pumps, but the intent of moving solids makes these powerful systems dredge pumps.
How does a Dredge Pump Work?
A dredge pump design is similar to other centrifugal pump designs. The core of the pump consists of an impeller, casing, and volute. Just as important to the pump is the motor. In addition, some pumps have agitators around the opening, side cutters, and jetting rings to help break up and disturbed the material for feeding the pump.
The impeller is mounted inside the pump casing and is attached to the drive motor via gearbox and shaft. The frontal portion of the pump casing is sealed using a suction cover, called the volute that connects directly to the dredge’s suction pipe. As the motor powers the impeller, the impeller spins. Because of specially designed ridges on the impeller, it creates a vacuum suction that draws in the materials and solids. Next, these solids are pushed through the opening to the volute and out the discharge. The separation between the impeller and volute opening limits the size of the solids. Finally, the dredge pump’s discharge is positioned near the top of the dredge pump and is connected to a separate discharge line. This discharge opening identifies the size of the pump.
To generate the power for lifting heavy rocks, sand, and other solids requires a powerful motor and a well-designed pump. Thus, more powerful motors with higher horsepower or kilowatts rotate the impeller faster and force more material higher and farther through the pipelines, allowing for higher heads. Likewise, this same principle occurs for larger-sized pumps designed to feed more material through at a time.
Parts of a Dredge Pump
- Impeller – Circular design with ridges to create suction force
- Casing – Encloses the pump and motor
- Volute – Directs the material through the pump to the discharge
- Motor – Powers the dredge pump
- Hose / Pipe – Is the vehicle for transferring the material
- Gear Box – Powered by the motor to turn mechanisms
- Shaft – The rod that spins the impeller
Typical Dredging Projects
Dredging is as essential today as it has ever been. The increase of technology, growth of cities, changing tides, and many other factors contribute to the need for more and more dredging projects. From large to small projects, dredging and the equipment used are becoming more sophisticated. Dredge pump’s capabilities are getting faster and better. DAE Pumps is here to help you with your next dredging project. Here are many common dredging projects our silt, sand, and gravel dredging pumps are used for:
Dredge Mining: The type of excavation where natural resources from a river, man-made ponds, or near the shorelines are pumped directly into mining separation plants for processing. Dredge mining is also used for cleaning out sedimentation and aquatic vegetation.
Lakes and Rivers Dredging: Clean energy and clean drinking water require the dredging of lakes and rivers to ensure better, cleaner hydropower and the removal of sediments and aquatic vegetation for cleaner drinking water.
Coastal and Environmental Protection Dredging: Critically, dredging ensures the safety and protection of the coastline and environment. Tending to the erosion and flooding of land, and cleaning up pollutants and contaminants without harming the environment is essential.
Maintenance Dredging: The continuous natural buildup of sediment and silt in delta ways, ports, marinas, and other waterways require maintenance dredging to ensure water level safety and access.
Ports and Marina Dredging: Because of the increase in global trade, the construction of more ports, yards, terminals, channels, and expansions of the existing waterways is required. And the expansion of the global population also leads to greater marina dredging.
Sand and Gravel Dredging: Lastly, the increasing demand for sand and gravel for the construction industry plays a major role in dredging sand, gravel, and other marine aggregates from offshore areas.
Pump Accessories
DAE Pumps provides a full spectrum of dredge pumps and accessories for completing all your tough dredging projects. We provide turnkey solutions with complete dredge pump systems that include slurry hoses, slurry flow meters, power units, and more. Choose from multiple sizes of slurry hoses for the transferring of materials, wireless flow meters for measuring the flow rate in gallons per minute of liquid, and power units for operation. Parts are always in stock and available for immediate shipping to anywhere in the US and the world.
Custom Pump Curve
Guarantee the right pump size and power for the job with a free DAE Pumps custom pump curve that graphically represents the pump’s flow rate of a specific head based on your exact requirements. Using a pump curve that is specific for your application will greatly help in selecting the pump best for you, ultimately saving you time and money.
Pump curves are developed from data gathered during testing of the pump’s performance at the manufacturer’s facility and provide the end-user with a graph of how the pump will operate over a set range. To build the pump curve, our engineers compile several variables, including the type of material, fluid viscosity, distance to pump, target GPM, and job-specific factors. This ensures the most efficient pump is recommended for your project. Contact a DAE Pumps representative today!