To achieve control of the application and size of hydrophobic particles in the wet-end of a paper machine can radically increase the efficiency of the machine.
Manager, Antti Pirneskoski, for Business & Application Development Control & Monitoring at Kemira recently presented some of the company´s newest control & monitoring technology in Helsinki, Finland.
According to Pirnekoski includes this technology new versatile series of tools designed to handle any chemistry control problems in customer processes.
– Environmental targets and economics have demanded that industries reduce the amount of fresh water used in the production process. The reduction of fresh water means a number of new challenges to improve process and water efficiency. To understand and deal with these new process changes, our customers are asking for more support from their chemical suppliers, told Pirnekoski.
The challenge is, according to him, to optimize the process performance and costs. Information gathering is only one aspect of the solution. Interpretation of the information from the process is the key to make intelligent decisions to correctly optimize the process.
– We have developed advanced new Kemira FlytoLite tm-Online monitoring system especially created for particle size management. I would say that this is a unique innovation with pending patent. It suits for low consistency suspensions, wet end monitoring and remote monitoring, explained Pirnekoski.
He stressed that the system keeps good correlation with labFlyto tm results and particle size distribution.
– Right now we have completed successful mill tests with this motoring system, told Pirnekorski.
Pirnekoski underlined that the control & monitoring tools are an extension of Kemira’s product application knowledge.
– These tools are applied on our own and commercial technologies, mainly via versatile and robust online measurements and related analytical methodologies, as well as intelligent diagnostic and control systems. The exploitation of these technologies for controlling chemistry in customer processes, however, often means more data. Therefore, strong and visual data analysis tools have been developed for easily analyzing even big amounts of multivariate data, said Pirnekoski.
The combined power of Kemira’s control & monitoring technologies and process diagnostics tools help, according this researcher, to support company´s customers by both improving their process and water efficiency and dealing with their new economic and environmental challenges.
