PROCESS EQUIPMENT UPDATE
a high energy ball of air, moving material better than a wide thin blast of air from a fan jet nozzle. Increased air tank volume would now make the sticky material easier to move. New discharge locations have now made it possible to push the material downward, at the angle of the chute, instead of across the chute. Any working cannons were relocated.
Te IGS Multiplier coupled with a larger 300L air cannon combined the initial power of the blaster with the large moving mass of the pusher to effectively clean this chute where other cannons had been ineffective. Tis mix of blast types allows the operator to not only break up hardened build-up, but also then shove it out of the way.
As a result of the IGS Big Blue air cannon installation, manual cleaning was no longer necessary. Te plant is now evaluating further areas, where build up is a problem, for additional air cannon upgrades. Efficiency and innovation are major drivers in the current climate. Cement plant managers, therefore, look for vendors that are able to fortify their resources by taking traditional systems and enhancing them for better performance. Eventually, what may now be considered “new” will become a new standard of cleaning.
Te success of this installation IGS has improved conventional air cannon design
allowed this plant to elect to purchase 75 additional air cannons to install on its preheat tower. Te air cannons are part of a project to switch fuels. Te plant is moving away from the expensive low-sulphur coal to a high-sulphur pet coke. It is established this change will create significant build-up in the preheat tower. Te plant worked with IGS to best determine the location of auxiliary air cannons. Each air cannon is being supplied with the high-velocity nozzles.
“ One fl ow meter showed a savings potenti al of 50% in our compressed air system. Now we have a method to measure it and to show facts to our management”
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