Extrusion International USA 5-2019

Extrusion International 5/2019 SFS-1-1300 cartridge filter system. Since then, it has in- creased of both filtration quality and service life, as well as delivering very good homogeneity. It was because of those qualities that the customer turned to Maag once again when upgrading a much larger plant. Christian Lebert, Product Manager for Virgin Polymer Fil- ter Systems at Maag, explains: “This new project demand- ed a minimum filter unit service life of 8 to 12 months without replacement. At a targeted throughput rate of up to 2000 kg/h, the maximum pressure loss should not exceed 50 bar. Again, leakage-free production was a re- quirement to prevent material from leaking, expanding in place, and so contaminating the production space and incurring high cleaning costs. Other requirements includ- ed that the filter unit should be quickly replaceable and, for cost reasons, should be reusable.” Newly developed cartridge filter meets high demands Maag also proposed the use of a static cartridge filter sys- tem to cope with the demanding operating conditions, since the typical design of such a system inherently ful- filled the basic requirements. As the existing SFS-1-1300, featuring only one filter cartridge, was not designed for the high specified throughput, a new design was re- quired. The result of this upscaling was the SFS-3-3000 cartridge filter system (picture 2), featuring three filter cartridges (ø 75 mm, 415 mm length, flowing through from outside to inside), in a horizontal orientation with a total filter surface area of approximately 3000 mm². Matched to the die gap, which can vary between 1.8 mm and 2 mm, the standard filter fineness is 800 μm, though Maag supplied a 600 μm exchange kit for test purposes. The entire filter Picture 2: View into thefilter inlet: The stainless steel SFS-3-3000 contains threehorizontally arrangedfilter cartridges (©Maag) Please visit us: Hall 9, Stand C64 16 - 23 October 2019 METRO G Better than ever before. Probably the most flexible loader system on the market motan-colortronic gmbh - info@motan-colortronic.de www.motan-colortronic.com