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Bespoke electric winch ensures safe and smooth loading of HGVs
The recent supply by Hoist & Winch of a bespoke electric-powered winch to a UK building products company is allowing the safe and smooth lifting and lowering of a large telescopic export chute that loads heavy-goods vehicles (HGVs) with a media byproduct from the customer’s production process. Importantly, raising and descending takes place in a level and precise position thanks to adjustable turn-buckle jacking screws.
Conceived by Hoist & Winch, one of the UK’s leading lifting equipment companies, a 400 V three-phase Haacon wire rope winch providing a swl (safe working load) of 1,500 kg sits at the heart of this innovative solution. The advanced winch offers a special triple rope lead-off design that raises and lowers the export chute via one vertically and two horizontally orientated diverter pulleys. A purpose-made frame and bolted connections facilitate mounting of the winch to the steel floor, ensuring level rope pay-off from the winch drum to the three diverter pulleys serving the system.
The final wire rope connection to the export chute is via adjustable turn-buckle jacking screws and swivelling eye bolts, a design that not only provides accurate chute levelling adjustment, but also extends the service life of the wire rope by eliminating any twisting action.
Winch control arrives courtesy of a switchgear enclosure and a two-button, single-speed, hard- wired pendant control station located remotely in an environmentally protected operating cubicle. Environmental protection is vital due to operating temperatures of over 40°C in summer months, as well as excessive dust in the atmosphere and surrounding work areas.
The new winch system, which replaces an original obsolete solution that had reached the end
of its service life, offers a number of further beneficial features to the customer, many relating to safety. For instance, the winch has a pressure roller to ensure secure retention of the wire rope on the drum. This capability is particularly important in the event of a slack wire rope, which might occur due to accidental over-lowering of the chute on to the HGV bed, for example.
Further safety-oriented features include an inverter controlled winch motor to provide very smooth and slow speed control, and grooves in the winch drum to ensure even and secure wire rope winding
Visit
www.hoistandwinch.co.uk for further information and to view recent case studies.
Hoist and Winch Ltd 08450 171126
sales@hoistandwinch.co.uk www.hoistandwinch.co.uk 44 MARCH 2024 | FACTORY&HANDLINGSOLUTIONS
How data paves the way for greener thermal systems
Process heating is vital in hydrocarbon processing. While conventional methods involve burning fossil fuels, an increasing number of plants are transitioning to electric process heaters. One of the key advantages of this shift is the capability to achieve highly precise control over both the heating element surface temperature and the power consumption of the system. This level of control now extends to predictive control, made achievable through actionable insights derived from data. In this article, Chelsea Hogard, engineering team leader at thermal systems provider Watlow, explores the role that data plays in predictive maintenance.
Electrification
Process heating is a significant source of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector, and so replacing fossil-fuel based heaters with electric ones running on green energy should yield significant progress towards decarbonisation goals. Adopting solutions for the first time will naturally bring about questions for process end user engineers regarding process variation, network loads, as well as component failure. Modern data collection technology, along with sophisticated data analysis, can monitor processes and allow these kinds of questions to be answered in real time.
Common challenges Petrochemical refining operations often use heat exchangers in processes that are conducive to coking and fouling. Fouled heaters can contaminate or disrupt processing, and must be cleaned and/ or replaced when issues arise.
Another challenge is that heater elements can occasionally fail. Continued failure of an element eventually leads to an inability to produce enough heat to reach the intended outlet temperature. This can cause further issues with the process in question, including incomplete processing, fouling or film boiling. Being able to detect when an element has failed can avoid more serious problems that lead to unscheduled maintenance.
Watlow
watlow.com
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