Voith has signed a €26.5 million contract with the Shanxi Middle Yellow River Diversion Water Development Co., LTD to provide five large pumps and auxiliary equipment for the Middle Yellow River Diversion Project in China.
The order includes an underground pumping station and five large pump units with a capacity of 10.1MW and a flow rate of approximately 4.71m3 per second each. The units are designed to pump the heavily sand-containing water from the Yellow River into three impeller stages to a delivery head of nearly 200m.
The pumps are expected to be put into operation before the middle of 2022.