Electric pump assembly, manufacturing method for installing such a pump assembly
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InventorsPierre-Marc De Mourgues, Guillaume Pierre-Marie Michel Spruyte
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InventorsPierre-Marc De Mourgues, Guillaume Pierre-Marie Michel Spruyte
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A pump assembly (1) includes a pump (2) and an electric motor (30 comprising a stator (4) and a rotor (5) separated by a gap. The pump assembly has a casing (6) defining a housing accommodating the stator (4) and rotor (5) with a removable seal jacket (12) that is designed to move from a test configuration where the seal jacket (12) is removably mounted within the casing (6), in the gap, to a normal operating configuration, where the seal jacket (12) is removed from the casing (6) to form a wet stator arrangement. Methods of manufacturing and installing the pump assembly are also disclosed.
A pump assembly (1) for pumping fluids, including a pump (2) and an electric motor (3) to drive the pump (2), said motor (3) comprising a stator (4) and a rotor (5) separated by a gap (E), said pump assembly also including a casing (6) delimiting a housing accommodating said stator (4) and rotor (5), said housing being in fluid communication with the pump (2) to circulate the pumped fluid in said housing in order to cool said motor (3), said pump assembly (1) being characterized in that it comprises a removable seal jacket (12) made of an electrically non-conductive material, and in that it is designed to switch from a test configuration, in which said seal jacket (12) is removably mounted within the casing (6), in the gap (E), to isolate said stator (4) from said pumped fluid, to a normal operating configuration, for pumping electrically non-conductive fluids, wherein the seal jacket (12) is removed from the casing (6), so as to form a wet-stator arrangement enabling the pumped fluid to come into contact with the stator (4).
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