The Sullivan Air Lift Pumping System

Sullivan Machinery C ompany BULLETIN 71-C. CHICAGO, MARCH, 1917 The Sullivan Air Lift Pumping System Methods and Apparatus PUMPING water from deep wells by means of compressed air has been practiced for many years, with varying degrees of success and efficiency. The purpose of this bulletin is to call attention to the important advantages of air lift pumping, when properly applied, and to show how Sullivan engineering and Sullivan equipment secure a high degree of effectiveness in this field. The air lift department of this company embodies a separate corps of engineers, whose efforts are devoted solely to problems relating to pneumatic pumping, and whose experience in this field embraces nearly twenty-five years of manufacture and installation. Those interested in securing water supply from deep wells are urged to submit their requirements and conditions to this department. Well No. 3, Prairie Pebble Phosphate Company, Mulberry, Florida, pumped by the Air Lift, and flowing 4600 gallons per minute Copyright, 1917