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News Release from: Hydramotion | Subject: XL7 online viscometer
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 September 2006
Real-time viscosity measurement boosts
production
Online viscometer saves time and money for wet strength resin production in Turkey.
A Hydramotion XL7 online viscometer is saving both time and money for Turkish chemicals manufacturer Ak-kim Kimya Sanayi ve Ticaret Among the company's products is a polyamidoamine-epichlorohydrin resin used to impart wet strength to tissue paper
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Jun 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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For Polyacryl Iran Corp, the benefits of the Hydramotion XL7 online viscometer were evident as soon as it was installed.
Synthetic water-soluble polymers such as the resin made by Ak-kim Kimya provide wet strength to the paper by first reinforcing the crosslinks between the cellulose fibres, which are weakened by water molecules, and then reacting with the cellulose to create an additional cross-linked network.
By controlling the viscosity of the resin solution, production staff can directly affect the quality of the finished product.
But until Ak-kim Kimya came to Hydramotion, viscosity could only be measured offline in the laboratory, so viscosity control was slow, inefficient and unreliable.
Now, with the XL7 viscometer up and running, the company is benefiting from the boost in productivity made possible by continuous real-time viscosity measurement.
"We can easily control and see the viscosity on a display", commented Process Engineer Serhat Zeytinci.
"This saves us a lot of time and labour cost".
Ak-kim Kimya was immediately attracted to the XL7 because of its flexibility.
"We decided on Hydramotion because it gave us a choice of locations".
"The viscometer could be installed in a reactor as well as online", said Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer Nuri Basarici.
"The installation was very easy, and the instrument is very easy to use".
The company was also impressed by the after-sales service.
"There was an initial problem with our power supply", recalls Basarici.
"But Hydramotion's service engineers were very helpful and it was quickly fixed". Request a free brochure from Hydramotion ...
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