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Reduce your capital costs for wet end equipment by
Simplifying the Process
The
“industry standard” wet end design has made several
evolutions over the last forty years. Some of these process
designs have used extra pumps and tanks, elaborate piping,
and unnecessarily complex control schemes. Eliminating this
unnecessary equipment can save capital and conserve valuable
space. Eliminating unnecessary equipment often reduces
operating costs, reduces maintenance expenses, and improves
productivity. Stoneleigh’s experience can help you find
practical ways to simplify your process so you can reduce
your capital expenditures while increasing machine
efficiency.
Properly Sizing Wet End Equipment
Properly sized wet end equipment enhances machine
performance, promotes quality, and still leaves room for
normal capacity growth. All design teams strive to achieve
proper equipment sizing.
However, thirty percent of cleaner systems and fifteen
percent of headboxes are substantially oversized. Oversized
equipment wastes capital, wastes energy, consumes valuable
space, and often complicates the rest of wet end design. The
unintended installation of oversized equipment is the most
common cause of serious startup difficulties from wet end
rebuilds. The typical wet end design process does not always
produce satisfactory results.
Experience has shown that the installation of this oversized
equipment generally comes from substantial and unrecognized
headbox slice flow measurement errors, inadequate capacity
analyses, and fundamental system design errors. These same
errors can also lead to the premature replacement of
otherwise usable equipment.
Careful measurements and analyses by an experienced
specialist can help you avoid these very expensive pitfalls.
Extending
the Life of Existing Equipment
Expensive process equipment is sometimes replaced for
insufficient capacity, when the symptoms of capacity limits
actually arise from operating problems in other equipment.
Identifying and correcting these operating problems can
avoid these large and unnecessary capital expenditures.
How
Stoneleigh Can Help You Invest Capital Effectively
Stoneleigh’s specialized engineering services can help you
invest capital more effectively. |
