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News Release from: Kerry Ultrasonics | Subject: Autotrans Mk 4 Major
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 March 2003
Ultrasonic cleaner removes trike dangers
A special aqueous ultrasonic cleaning system has enabled Centrax Turbine Components Division to remove a potentially carcinogenic trichloroethylene machine from its production process.
A special aqueous ultrasonic cleaning system from Kerry Ultrasonics has enabled Centrax Turbine Components Division, a leading manufacturer of gas turbine equipment, to remove a potentially carcinogenic trichloroethylene (trike) machine from its production process while simultaneously improving cleaning quality Centrax, which supplies turbine manufacturers such as Honeywell, Rolls-Royce and Volvo, has installed a five-stage plant to clean gas turbine blades and vanes undergoing nondestructive testing (NDT)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Kerry ultrasonic cleaning system operates pre- and post-NDT, ensuring that components are free of shop soil before they receive a layer of penetrant dye, and then removing all traces of the dye once they have been checked for cracks under ultraviolet light.
Unlike the company's trike machine, Centrax's new aqueous cleaning system eradicates all trace of solid particles from components, and is also much more effective when extracting residual dye from hollow parts.
Continuous Improvement Manager at Centrax, John Morgan, explains that all of the other cleaning methods he considered would have obliged Centrax to adopt special jigs on which to hang its components.
"Kerry's Autotrans Mk 4 Major robotic transporter, which is adapted to accept both rectangular baskets and circular jigs, has allowed us to use our existing fixtures and has led to a dramatic reduction in manual handling time".
Having gone through an ultrasonic wash in M-Aero solution, components pass through two rinse stages, the first using town water, the second deionised.
Excess liquid is then dealt with by a hot air dry, before a vacuum dry eliminates any moisture lingering in complex parts.
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