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Drive Increases Efficiency &
Reliability of Conveyor Systems
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29,
2002--When it comes to material handling, producers who move product
efficiently make the most money. Improvements in conveyor system
performance can directly enhance productivity.
Conversely,
poorly engineered conveyor systems or less-than-optimal components
result in downtime, wasted resources, safety issues and reduced
profit. MagnaDrive Corporation, in Seattle, Wash., has a solution
that is delivering major efficiency, reliability and safety
improvements to conveyor operators nationwide, the company announced
today.
MagnaDrive's power transmission
technology utilizes powerful rare-earth permanent magnets to
transmit torque across an air gap with no physical connection
between the motor and driven equipment. MagnaDrive's Adjustable
Speed Drive is for variable speed applications up to 1500 HP, such
as pumps, fans and blowers, where precise process control, energy
savings, reduced vibration and low maintenance are desired. The
MagnaDrive Coupling is designed for constant speed applications up
to 1000 HP, such as conveyors, where low cost, easy installation,
efficient torque transfer without vibration, overload torque
protection, cushioned start and stop, misalignment tolerance and low
maintenance are desired.
A unique benefit of the MagnaDrive
Coupling is its performance in torque overload situations such as
material jams or excess weight. The Coupling automatically
disengages, shutting down the system and preventing damage or
destruction of the motor and driven equipment. When the jam is
cleared, the Coupling automatically resets to resume operation.
Nowhere in industry are material
handling systems more critical, and more problematic, than in mines
and coal-fired power generation plants where MagnaDrive technology
offers unique benefits. From a mine on site, the Ash Grove Cement
Company plant in Durkee, Oregon produces portland cement used in
construction. Crushed raw materials are conveyed to vertical bucket
elevators that lift the kiln feed material to a 50-ton storage bin
50 feet off the ground. It is then metered to an air slide and
conveyed to the kiln.
This is a critical process, running
24/7, 50 weeks per year in dusty, abrasive conditions where
equipment failure is common and downtime costs at least $6000/hour.
Fluid couplings were used in the conveyor drive systems until
worries about safety and reliability led to replacing them with
first generation magnetic couplings. But when one of those
overheated and melted due to overload, Ash Grove turned to
MagnaDrive for a better option.
MagnaDrive Couplings were installed
on the two bucket elevators driven by 20 HP motors. The Couplings
allow soft start that extends equipment life, and have virtually
eliminated downtime. Since they automatically disengage in overload
conditions such as that which destroyed the original magnetic
coupling, there are no more worries about equipment being damaged or
destroyed. Most importantly, they greatly enhance the safety of
plant personnel.
According to Bernie Sherin, Ash
Grove's Maintenance Manager, "Fluid couplings are an accident
waiting to happen. And downtime caused by equipment failures is
incredibly costly. These MagnaDrive Couplings are a great solution
on both counts."
MagnaDrive President and CEO, Ron
Woodard, sees huge potential for MagnaDrive equipment in mining,
power generation and other material handling systems.
"Customers tell us that MagnaDrive products are easy to install
and align, significantly increase reliability, and greatly reduce
downtime and maintenance costs," said Woodard. "In
conveyor systems, MagnaDrive Couplings are a great solution to
traditional nagging and expensive operational and safety
problems."
AccuRate Offers Pre-Engineered
Louvered Vibratory Feeders
Whitewater, WI - AccuRate recently
released pre-engineered 6, 12, 18, and 24 inch diameter SolidsFlow
2000 Series Louvered Vibratory Feeders. The newly announced standard
designs were selected to permit 80% of the applications appropriate
for these feeders to be addressed without the need for custom
engineering. In this way, engineering time and costs are largely
eliminated, reducing delivery times by between 2 & 3 weeks.
Flexibility
and serviceability have also been enhanced by the release of
standard models since the designs share load cells, hoppers, vents,
inlets and other parts with AccuRate's award-winning MECHATRON
feeder line.
SolidsFlow Model 2000 Louvered
Vibratory Feeders are currently successfully operating in a wide
variety of volumetric and gravimetric applications involving
difficult-to-feed materials like wet chopped fiberglass, Silica
sand, and friable (easily damaged) materials like chopped nuts and
time-release fertilizer. The feeders are easy to clean and with no
moving parts have an extremely low cost of operation.
AccuRate, a Unit of SCHENCK AccuRate,
is a global supplier of bulk solids metering equipment and systems.
For more information contact:
Mr. Mike Karas SCHENCK AccuRate
Telephone: 800-558-0184
Fax: 262-473-2489
Email: karas@sarinc.com
Web site: AccuRate
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November
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AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition
Continues to Grow
ARLINGTON, Va. - The American
Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) is rapidly
approaching another record year for its Annual Meeting and
Exposition. The 2002 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition will be held
November 10-14, 2002 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
"The AAPS exposition continues
to grow more and more each year," said Grace Jones, AAPS Senior
Manager, Expositions and Registration. "Compared to this time
last year we have eight percent more booths and six percent more
companies exhibiting. The increase is a reflection of the success of
our annual meeting."
In 1999, Tradeshow Week named the
AAPS Exposition one of the top five fastest-growing medical
tradeshows. Several key pharmaceutical and scientific corporations
will be using this year's meeting to make major product and company
announcements.
"The 2001 AAPS Annual Meeting
and Exposition was well attended and the business leads we received
this year were of very high quality," said Catherine Cates,
Manager, Trade Expositions, AAI International.
Approximately 7,000 attendees from
close to 40 countries are expected to attend this year's meeting.
For details about the AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition contact
Grace Jones at 703-248-4784.
About AAPS
AAPS is a professional, scientific
society of more than 11,000 members employed in academia, industry,
government and other research institutes worldwide. Founded in 1986,
AAPS aims to advance science through the open exchange of scientific
knowledge, serve as an information resource, and contribute to human
health through pharmaceutical research and development. For more
information about AAPS, visit AAPS Pharmaceutica at www.aapspharmaceutica.com
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Welcome to the World Batch Forum's -
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Batch Forum and we are scheduling recurring webcast seminars for
your continued education.
Project Management of Software
Intensive Projects, How to Avoid Pitfalls
When: Wednesday, November 13, 2002
Seminar Leader: Dr. Maurice Wilkins, Millennium Specialty
Chemicals.
Abstract: Batch control
projects have tended to be software intensive and often overrun
substantially. In most cases this is due to a lack of foresight and
planning in the early stages. The “S88 Era” has tried to
alleviate this situation by providing a structured methodology –
but again the flexibility of current control systems and a lack of
planning can produce the same effect as having no structure at all.
This paper aims to highlight some potential problems and pitfalls
and how they may be contained without adversely affecting the
outcome of the project.
Biography: Dr. Williams
is the Director of Automation for Millennium Specialty Chemicals -
where he is responsible for the design and implementation of their
strategic technology plan. He is also the vice chairman of WBF and
has been associated with the organization in various capacities
since the first "Meeting of the Minds" in 1994. Maurice
has worked in the control industry for 24 years for companies such a
Exxon Chemicals and Honeywell. In 1998 Maurice formed Breakthrough
Process Consulting, to help companies improve their business
performance by using benchmarking to identify gaps in their
automation infrastructure. These gaps are then addressed using a
strategic plan for improvement, tailored to each company's needs.
Millennium Specialty Chemicals is using this methodology for its
process automation improvement strategy.
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I have some components from some past
pneumatic conveying projects which I am wanting to use for a system
to convey PET flakes Ø12mm x 2mm thick (Ø1/2in x 1/12in thick)
from a PET Recycle Plant chopper to a hopper.
The cyclone I have available & am
thinking of using for product separation above the destination
hopper has the following size:
Body Diameter 0.5m (19.7 in)
Body Height 1m (39 in)
Cone Height 0.6m (23.6 in)
Inlet Diameter 0.2m (8in)
Cone Outlet dia 0.16 m (6 in)
Air Outlet dia 0.2m (8 in)
Air system is 1800 m^3/hr (1000CFM)
and velocity of 25m/s (82ft/sec) using a Kongskilde blower.
All the design literature I have is
for cyclones used in dust separation. I am unsure how to determine
if this cyclone will efficiently separate the PET flakes , in
particular I am unsure how to allow for the fact the flakes have an
unusual shape (compared to dust) and they are significantly larger
than dust particles.
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