A brochure describing mill opportunities for improvement in bulk material handling is available from Martin Engineering. Martin systems are designed to help operations control maintenance expenses, reduce cleanup labor, maximize process throughput, minimize downtime, eliminate wasted material, and reduce health and safety risks. By improving chip and bark handling, Martin helps paper mills reach efficiency and profitability goals.

Martin Engineering

The Venturi scrubber from AirPol is used worldwide for removal of sub-micron particulates with high efficiency. The Venturi scrubber can be designed and operated with virtually any desired particulate removal efficiency. It has different types of throat dampers to maintain constant pressure drop at fluctuating gas volumes. The Venturi is available in a variety of models for various applications.

AirPol Inc.

A series of tank heaters from Komax Systems is designed for the direct injection of steam into tanks for heating water compatible products in a quiet, vibration free, and efficient fashion. They develop a strong stirring action to help keep any solids or particulates in suspension. This stirring action also helps produce uniform temperature throughout the tank when heating a large volume paper machine chest, allowing accurate thermostatic control.

Komax Systems Inc.

A new brochure describing the many products and capabilities offered by Farr Co. is available. The brochure describes key features and benefits of Farr dust collection systems and equipment, including a new line of Gold Series high-efficiency cartridge collectors. The company’s manufacturing facilities, customer service programs, R&D and engineering support, and full-service laboratory are also described in the brochure.

Farr Co.

Tidland Corp. presents The Edge-Trim slitting solution. It is a self-contained shear slitting unit for continuously moving flexible webs. The Edge-Trim has upper knives and anvil blades both mounted on a common C-frame carriage. It can be retrofitted to fit most machines and set-up time is greatly reduced or eliminated because the knife-to-anvil relationship is never disturbed during slitter repositioning.

Tidland Corp.

The new EcoBright from Voith controls chemical dosage in various bleaching stages, allowing for adjustments that minimize variations in final brightness of the secondary fiber stock. By optimizing the involved chemical qualities, significant cost savings can be expected. The EcoBright system is based on a feed-forward control strategy using multiple on-line brightness sensors and advanced software.

Voith Sulzer

A new brochure is available from Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co. This new brochure highlights the company’s expertise in providing solutions for environmental system construction projects. The company works with a system designer to maximize construction modularization, reducing overall project span and costs.

Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co.

Fisher Controls has designed new valve monitoring capabilities in their Asset Management Solutions (AMS) ValveLink software as part of the PlantWeb field-based architecture. The Performance Diagnostics functionality of AMS ValveLink software allows constant monitoring of valve performance without bumping, stepping, or interrupting normal control operations in any way.

Fisher-Rosemount

The FXS-1500 filtrate extraction sampler is now available from BTG. The sampler extracts a filtrate from highly refined pulp in mechanical and recycled pulp applications. The FXS-1500 can be used in combination with residual or peroxide analyzers or other analytical instruments requiring a filtrate, such as a pH or conductivity meter. The FXS-1500 features timer-based automatic cleaning to prevent plugging and provide easy installation. The sampler is manufactured in stainless steel.

BTG

The Falk Corp. has published a new brochure that highlights the complete Quadrive metric produce line. Available for horizontal or vertical mounting, Quadrive gear drives come in 11 sizes, with 25 mm to 160 mm bushing bores, power ratings up to 224kW (300 HP), and 39,547 Nm output. Output ranges from 5 rpm to 350 rpm. The Quadrive line features Falk’s TA taper bushing design for fast and easy installation and removal.

Falk Corp.

JWC Environmental has introduced stainless steel drum coils that improve flow performance and increase solids capture efficiency. The stainless steel helical coil drums can be engineered to various pitches, thereby increasing the open area through the unit. The drums are constructed of high-grade durable stainless steel and can be positioned close to the cutters of the unit to increase solids capture performance. The drums can be custom ordered on JWCE new units or retrofitted to existing units.

JWC Environmental

The Falk Corp. has introduced a new, four-color coupling selection guide, available in inch or metric measurements. The guide, which outlines Falk’s four coupling product lines, has product cut-away illustrations, schematics, and application photographs. Falk’s four coupling product lines are: Wrapflex elastomer couplings, Steelflex grid couplings, Freedom disc couplings, and Lifelign gear couplings. All are available in standard- or dual-purpose designs, with special configurations for unique requirements.

Falk Corp.

A new compression-molded fiberglass grating that costs less and is designed to last longer than open-molded FRP grating is available from Seasafe Inc. Kordex-II grating is corrosion-resistant and has an anti-slip surface. The compression-molding manufacturing process ensures a long working life. The Kordek-II comes in four color option with four different resin systems. It is available in a 1.5 in2 grid configuration, which is also 1.5 in. thick.

Seasafe Inc.

DeZURIK KGL knife gate valves for isolation, on-off, and throttling applications are designed to provide positive seating and resist corrosion in liquids, slurries, gases, and dry materials. These valves have a wafer face-to-face body design that saves pipeline space. Valves are available with stainless steel liners of 304L, 316L, or 317L stainless steel. They also feature a raised-face seat for positive seating, even in thick slurries and applications with high solids.

DeZURIK

Wilden Pump & Engineering Co. has introduced a new 3-in. air-operated, double-diaphragm pump in a plastic bolted configuration. Available with ANSI inlet-discharge ports, this polypropylene construction Teflon fitted pump is capable of flows to 237 gpm. The bolted design offers excellent sealing characteristics in applications that have a low specific gravity or low viscosity.

Wilden Pump & Engineering Co.

The True Stock sampling valve from Strahman Valves is designed to provide the most representative pulp samples possible. The valve is specially designed with a unique coupling that extends into the main stream of flow, allowing the extraction of live samples. The True Stock sampling valve’s body is cast (not fabricated) in a choice of alloys and is sealed with two compressible packing rings to eliminate leaking.

Strahman Valves