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News Release from: Nord Drivesystems | Subject: SK9000 helical bevel gearboxes
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 April 2008
Gearboxes boost recycling efficiency
Over 50 gearboxes from Nord Drivesystems drive the extensive materials handling system at a new materials recovery facility (MRF) operated by Nordic Recycling.
High-efficiency gearboxes from Nord Drivesystems have helped Ken Mills Engineering (KME) to build the advanced processing machinery employed in a new materials recovery facility (MRF) operated by Nordic Recycling in Tilbury, Essex The new facility is Europe's largest single-line MRF
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The processing machinery was designed by KME, and features a large number of automated screening stages to enable the extraction of different types of dry recyclable materials.
The MRF incorporates of a number of automatic balers, all linked by a sophisticated feeding and materials handling conveyor system with a total length of several hundred metres.
Over 50 gearboxes from Nord Drivesystems drive the extensive materials handling system.
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Helical bevel gears were selected for the application, to optimise performance, providing an efficiency of over 95%, helping minimise the energy costs at the plant, which typically operates for around 16 hours/day.
This style of gear additionally runs very quietly, helping to reduce noise levels at the facility.
The MRF has a nominal capacity of 25 tonnes/hour and is expected to process at least 100,000 tonnes of mixed dry recyclable materials a year, which might otherwise go to landfill.
Around 50,000 tonnes of reclaimed paper is expected to be baled and shipped to Holmen Paper in Sweden for recycling into fresh newsprint.
The MRF machinery is designed to have a very long life of some 25 years and part of KME's responsibility is to provide a 24/7 maintenance service.
Consequently, when specifying the drive systems, reliability was a paramount concern.
Nord helped KME to specify the gearboxes, choosing the sizes to provide a combination of economy and operating safety margins to assure reliability.
The underlying performance margin built into the conveying system and other elements of KME's processing machinery, has been demonstrated many times since the Tilbury plant started operations in October 2007, as the nominal capacity of 25 tonnes/hour is regularly exceeded, sometimes by as much as a third.
Helical bevel gearboxes from Nord's SK9000 family are used on the conveying system.
These units provide the ideal right-angle connection to the conveying system.
The helical bevel cut teeth provide a smooth, efficient and low noise meshing that is ideal for low-speed power transmission applications such as driving conveyors.
They increase efficiency substantially compared with the more common style of worm gears used in this kind of application, in this instance providing around 25% greater efficiency, which equates to energy cost savings of many thousands of pounds over a year.
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