Vacuum system changes are Surprising & Rewarding
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SUSTAINABILITY & ENERGY CONSERVATION
Let Vooner share our Know-How and Partner with you to maximize reliability, sustainability, and energy conservation for the heart of your paper-making process = Your press section
Sustainability
- Identify all Input materials, resources and operating expenses to make product.
- Account for Inputs that are a part of Finished product
- Inputs lost and not in Finished product is Loss of Sustainability
- Full Sustainability is all inputs are in finished products.
Energy Conservation
- Measure Power Input and Cost
- Calculate working power by subtracting drive slippage, leaks friction losses, and heat losses and the Financial Cost.
- Calculate remaining and available Power Consumed
- Energy Conservation rating is Power Consumed / Power Input
RETURN ON EQUIPMENT INVESTMENT
- Initial investment of equipment and installation as Investment
- Add to investment cost, if removal of former existing equipment
- Measure for normal operating time all Expenses of power, water, operating labor, maintenance labor and depreciation.
- Plan operating time before major maintenance or replacement
- Operating cost for depreciation time (7 years) and long term (20 -30 years) including all major maintenance or replacements.
- ROEI for a time is initial Investment / total operating plus maintenance Costs plus major maintenance or replacement investments
SUSTAINABILITY AND ENERGY CHANGES IN PAPER MILL VACUUM SYSTEMS ARE SURPRISING AND REWARDING
- Energy balance by maximizing mechanical removal of water and minimizing thermal evaporation of water
- Cool and condense vacuum process vapor into water to reduce vacuum volume
- Fine tune adjustments at dewatering contact point to improve dewatering
- Reduce trim of product at edges of process by using fast reverse actuator
- Recirculate vacuum pump seal water, clean with gravity strainer removal of suspended solids, for warmer process water
- Collect and heat exchange vacuum pump discharge water to recover heat.
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Vooner FloGard has over 30 years of experience with corrosion and erosion-resistant vacuum pump applications, including patented vacuum pump designs and vacuum system engineering capabilities. In addition, Vooner is an original equipment manufacturer for complete vacuum systems for slurry dewatering, evaporation, pneumatic conveying, condenser exhauster, and felt cleaning in paper mills.