Main elements of new design
• New two stage basket
- Wedge - wire screen at the pre step
- Hard-chromium nickel screen on working side
- New rubber buffer design
• Rubber buffers outside of heat affected zone
- No rubber seals between basket and housing
- Easy replacement of rubber buffers
• New Motor arrangement
- V-belt tension monitoring
K3300 with dry discharging
K3300 with mixing and melting device
New two stage basket
• Upper diameter 1300mm
• Pre-separation of syrup
- High Throughput
- Harmonized sugar layer in
- main separation step
• Main separation
- Better sugar quality
• Reduced energy consumption
- 25% subject to massecuite quality
Standard Screen Arrangement
• Wedge wire screen in pre step
- High troughput
- High lifetime
• 6-part nickel screen with hard-chromium surface on working side
- Increased
- lifetime due to pre-step
General features
• Compact and user-friendly design
• Easy installation
• Pre-wired supply
• All product-contacted components in stainless steel
• Easy replacement of rubber buffers
Motor Arrangement
• Motor and bearing system arranged on the same base
- Easy V-belt tensioning and relieve belt tension
Features of the new design
• “Turbo3” distributor
• Feeding device
• Split spray nozzle lance
• Pipe work for steam and water (no more hoses)
• Central terminal points for steam and water
“Turbo3” – Product distributor
• Process features:
- Efficient heating for reduction of 
massecuite viscosity
- Increased throughput
- Higher sugar quality
- Better massecuite distribution
• Easy assembling
• Easy accessible
Feeding device
• Pneumatically operated
control valve
• Centering facility
• Compensator
• Sight glass temperature-resistant plastics
• Double walled feeding and heating pipe
Split spray nozzle lance
• 2 nozzles at the bottom section
• Up to 5 nozzles at the top section
Steam and water valves
• Completely tubed and installed in stainless steel
• Marking of each valve
• Protection against contact
Terminal points for steam and water
• Steam and water
• Supplies R ¾
• Wash water strainer
Basic automation
• Pneumatic acting valve
- for massecuite and
- mixing/melting medium
• Magnetic inductive flowmeter
- for wash water and
- mixing/melting medium
• Local control box
• Vibration monitor
• Tension monitor
Local operator panel
• Mounted on the centrifugal
• Two controllers for mixing or melting version
• Flashing light for low v-belt tension
• Flashing light for too excessive vibration
• Display for wash water consumption
Throughput
|
Beet
|
Cane
|
B – High raw – Raw sugar
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22–33 t/h
(42 t/h*)
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22–35 t/h
(45 t/h*)
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C – Low raw – After product
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15–17 t/h
(19 t/h*)
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15–19 t/h
(22 t/h*)
|
C- Affination *)
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20–28 t/h
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22–30 t/h
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| *) Subject to massecuite quality and driving motor power |
Summary of features of the new design
• Two stage basket
• New rubber buffer design and new motor arrangement
• “Turbo3” distributor
• Split spray nozzle lance
• Pipe work for steam and water (no more hoses)
• Central terminal points for steam and water
• Less wear parts
• High level of automation
• Compact and user-friendly design