10 Mechanical Problems that Cause Paper Dryer Flooding
Paper dryers can experience periodic problems with flooding. A flooded dryer is one that has an excessive amount of condensate in it.
Paper dryers can experience periodic problems with flooding. A flooded dryer is one that has an excessive amount of condensate in it.
Automated monitoring of circulating oil lubrication systems is popular in paper mills to help prevent process interruptions.
Choosing industrial batteries can be complicated—there are just so many options that it can be difficult to decide which factors are most important: Ah capacity, chemistry, charging speed, cycle life, brand, price, etc.
As the “life blood” of your plant’s operation, electric motors require special lubrication considerations. The theoretical design life of an electric motor is 20 years or more. Yet many tens of thousands of industrial electric motors end up in the trash pile prematurely. This results in an enormous loss for industries across the board.
Steam and condensate hardware often corrodes due to variations in system chemistry. This corrosion can be amplified by fluid flows which further erode surfaces. Many customers address this corrosion issue by replacing the hardware with stainless steel components or special coatings.
I was seventeen years old when I joined the Swedish Merchant Marines as an apprentice in the engine room of M/T Sven Salen, a 40,000 d.w.t. oil tanker with 24,000 hp on two huge diesel engines. At that time, this was one of the largest ships in the world and the largest to go through the Suez Canal.
Here are preventive maintenance examples of best practices and the questions you need to ask to determine if your plant is using them.
An arch is a significant part of an expansion joint; it is the backbone of an expansion joint’s performance. The arch designates how the joint can move and the type of media allowed.
Do you let your faucets run? No. Well, the same should apply to your compressed air piping system. However, unlike water or oil leaks, air leaks are invisible and won’t cause damage... but they're just as costly! So what should you do? Be proactive: start a leak detection program and keep it up.
At the heart of the tissue making process is the Yankee dryer where critical properties are given to the tissue being produced. Yankee steam systems are used to deliver heat to Yankee dryer and evacuate the condensed and non-condensed steam.
Flow meters are highly customizable due to differences in design, function, accuracy, and build components such as tube materials, end block materials, fittings, floats, valves, o-rings, flow configurations and more.
As any experienced plant operator will tell you, your machinery assets are never constant. You know that even if only on a microscopic level, your best machinery assets are, in fact, deteriorating towards an eventual failure.
The Yankee hood is an essential tool in the drying of tissue, towel and specialty paper grades. The physical condition of its components has a significant bearing on the machine’s overall productivity.
In papermaking, linting or dusting is the loss of fibers from the paper sheet. It typically occurs early in the drying process and creates buildup on dryers and wears doctor blades. It is also a fire hazard. Although linting occurs in the dryer section, it is not caused by the dryer section. It starts in the forming section.
Any improvement initiative within reliability and maintenance is a journey towards a state of continuous improvement. You will never reach a final destination. You might state that your goal is 95% planned and scheduled maintenance and 96% reliability.
One universal measurement of maintenance performance, and perhaps the measure that matters most in the end, is actually maintenance costs.
Many Reliability and Maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustainable (and continuously improving) results in improved safety, manufacturing throughput, and costs.
Sam was recently promoted to maintenance manager from assistant maintenance manager now with a long time maintenance employee/union official/supervisor appointed assistant.as back up.
How to prevent CluNKs, sQueAKs and JaMs!
Reliability is a term that has become more commonly used in the industry.
How to prevent CluNKs, sQueAKs and JaMs!
Ceramic wear surfaces are used in paper machine applications and can reduce energy consumption and increase wear life.