Are Glass Grinding and Polishing Costs Taking A Huge Bite Out of Your Profits?
The Chemwest Particle Removal System Is the Clear Solution
Reduce Escalating Energy Costs
- Eliminate the need to run large centrifuge motors 24 hours/day just to keep your fluids clean
Reduce Maintenance Costs
- Free-up maintenance staff to focus their attention on other responsibilities
- Use gravity to do the work with a system that nearly runs on its own
Improve Cutting and Grinding Cleanliness and Effectiveness
- Remove >99.9% of suspended solids in your cutting/grinding fluid
Reduce Throughput Time, Extend the Life of Grinding Wheels
- The cutting/grinding fluid adds lubricity, improving feed rates for most cutting and polishing operations and extending diamond wheel life
Improve Competitiveness and Your Bottom Line
- Run cleaner and more efficiently while extending the life of your consumables. It all adds up…to a healthier bottom line
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We’ll gladly demonstrate just how clear the difference is with the Chemwest Particle Removal System!
(503) 639-64141586 SW 72nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97224
Particle Removal Systems
One and Two Tank Systems Designed and Sized To Meet Footprint Requirements, and Deliver Coolant with Less Than .1% Suspended Solids
System Advantages
- Cleanliness of solution exceeds centrifuge
- Continuous operation even with component failure
- Minimal energy requirements for system operation
- Footprint is approximately the size of Centrifuge
- Low cost of ownership
System Operation
Fully Self Contained, Automated System Settling Tank
- Cutting/grinding fluid is delivered from your cutting and grinding tools to the Settling System, and then channeled to the bottom of the Settling Tank
- Flocculent is injected into the return stream in the tank on a scheduled basis
- Flocculent combines with particles resulting in a drop of the solids to the bottom of the tank
Clarifying Tank
- Solution is channeled from the top of Settling Tank to the bottom of the Clarifying Tank
- Flocculent continues to combine with particles dropping to the bottom of the tank
- Clean fluid is removed from the top of the tank and is pumped to the cutting and grinding tools
Mixer
- A pneumatic mixer is turned on for a brief time prior to a dump to “fluff” the solids on the bottom of the tank
- This suspends the solids in the bottom portion of the tank
Pinch Valves
- A 3” pinch valve is used to quickly flow solids out of the tank and into the filter bag
- These valves are ideally suited for abrasive environments
The solids are flowed into the waste hopper and filter bag
- Excess liquid drains to a sump tank, and then is returned to the settling tank.
- The 2 Tank Systems utilize a self dumping hopper for quick waste dumping.
Control Cabinet
- PLC/Operator Interface
- Color Touch Screen for Operator control
- PLC control of I/O
- VFD Pump control
- Coolant is monitored for proper level and injected via Dosatron Pump
- Flocculant injection via Dosatron Pump
- Control Cabinet provides automated control of fluid level, pumps and coolant concentration
Supply Pump Skid
- Dual Supply Pumps for redundant operation
- Manual Isolation Valves
- Output Pressure Sensor for VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) Control – not shown
System Advantages
- Cleanliness of solution exceeds centrifuge
- Continuous operation even with component failure
- Minimal energy requirements for system operation
- Footprint is approximately the size of Centrifuge
- Low cost of ownership