Maintenance in the Pulp and Paper Industry | Paper Advance

Are your business process workflows defined for effective work management?

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.