Pressure Feeders

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 Low and high pressure feeders

• Critical equipment; bottleneck in

the production process
• Low speed
• ”Noisy” environment
• Damped bearing signal due to
bearing construction

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 Continuous cooking

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 Continuous cooking and bleaching
Chips

Low
pressure Wash Wash
Oxygen Chlorine
feeder press press
bleaching dioxide
Steaming vessel
Impregnation vessel

High
pressure
feeder
Wash
Digester

Hydrogen press
peroxide
Bleached pulp

Unbleached pulp

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 Continuous cooking
Chips
Atmospheric pressure

Low pressure feeder

Impregnation vessel
Steaming vessel Atmospheric pressure x 15

Atmospheric pressure x 2
High pressure
feeder

Digester
Atmospheric pressure x 15

Pulp

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 Continuous cooking
Chips
Atmospheric pressure

Low pressure feeder

Impregnation vessel
Steaming vessel Atmospheric pressure x 15

Atmospheric pressure x 2
High pressure
feeder

Digester
Atmospheric pressure x 15

Pulp

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 Low pressure feeder

2 x shock pulse
1 x RPM

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 Low pressure feeder
Atmospheric pressure. Wood chips inlet.

Pressure outlet

Double atmospheric pressure. Wood chips outlet.

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 Low pressure feeder

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 Low pressure feeder

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 High pressure feeder

2 x shock pulse
1 x RPM

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 High pressure feeder

High pressure

Low pressure

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 High pressure feeder

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 High pressure feeder

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 High pressure feeder

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 Case - Low pressure feeder
5X with BPFO with harmonics
harmonics

BPFO main tone

Bearing replaced

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 Case - Low pressure feeder
BPFO

BPFO

BPFO
BPFO

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 Case - Low pressure feeder

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 Condition monitoring solution
• Intellinova
• Shock pulse transducers
• RPM probes
• Condmaster diagnostic
software

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 System configuration
Condmaster®

Database

ETHERNET / WLAN

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 Summary

• Reliable condition monitoring solution

• Mechanical condition of mission critical equipment
completely under control
• SPM HD and vibration analysis combination provides very
detailed information
• Clear, distinct measurements reveal everything

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 Pressure Feeders

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