Modern PCF Automatic Dryer Fabric Cleaner For Paper Machines

Urpo Launonen
Director, UJL Solutions, Australia

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Keywords: papermachine, dryer fabric cleaning

Modern automatic dryer fabric cleaners have become necessary in high-speed paper machines, particularly recycled ones. While a paper machine is running, the fabric becomes contaminated, and this naturally affects paper machine runnability and paper quality. By installing modern fabric cleaners, papermakers can get the following main benefits: less web breaks because of clean dryer fabrics, improved paper quality, less contaminants on rolls and dryer cylinders, decreased cleaning shutdowns and dryer fabric cleaning time, increased production efficiency, increased lifetime of the dryer fabrics and less maintenance costs.

Some paper machines have fabric cleaning systems installed, but these are often old, unreliable, have high maintenance costs, and are also very difficult to maintain. Today a modern automatic dryer fabric cleaner is fully automatic, equipped with PLC controls with diagnostics, it is reliable, has higher performance and has less maintenance.

This presentation will discuss the above new features, along with the latest technology involved. These include technical solutions to have reliable, high-performance cleaning without mist. In addition, features that help minimise maintenance costs, especially during shutdowns, are discussed.

Urpo has worked almost 40 years in P&P industry in Europe and ANZ. He has had own business UJL Pty Ltd last 15 years and sell solutions and services from several European suppliers.