An Antarctic adventure for Cat Pumps

摘要

An ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from Lake Ellsworth, some 3km beneath solid ice in Antarctica, is using positive displacement triplex pump technology to provide high pressure hot water for an innovative borehole drilling system. The British Antarctic Survey's (BAS's) Lake Ellsworth Programme, which has been in planning for almost 15 years, will start drilling this December and over a period of three days will sink a 360mm diameter borehole through the solid ice.