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Continuous Casting with Grease

Typical Characteristics of the Casting application:
- Slow rotation 
- High temperatures
- Corrosive process water ingress

Dropsa has brought innovation to Grease system design, reliability and monitoring  to traditional Casting applications. In this application example – a traditional grease system – high reliability and ease of maintenance was achieved by using both modular pump package and modular divider valves.  A flow monitoring system allows the user to know exactly how much grease is being injected in each segment of the machine 

System Overview

• Total Number of Points:            from 300 to 400
• Total Number of Segments:      from 12 to 36
• Lubricant :                                NLGI-2; KHC25
• Grease Volume per cycle:         1÷cc/stroke
• Operating Frequency:               min: 30 min, max: 1h
• Length of system:                    25÷30mt

This case application was implemented using:

• SUMO Grease Pump
  
• Modular Direction (4/2) Valve
• Modular Dual Divider Components
• Dual Line Flow monitoring

Benefits Achieved:

• High reliability pump package solution with built in redundancy for 24 hour operation.
• Easy swap out of pump modules on maintenance schedules
• Quick, reliable and clean change-out of divider valves during maintenance
• flexibility in design and increased performance over traditional and competitor products
• A flow monitoring panel that gives electronic monitoring of the volume of grease injection during each lubrication cycle
• Flow monitoring provides grease consumptions for each segment.
• Quick diagnostic of any potential problems.

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System Design

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