VER 3756 - 6273 mm Paper Machine for Newsprint

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Production capacity: 330 Tpd, producing paper 27.6 to 34 lbs per 3300 sq.ft
Basis range: 44 to 55 g/m
Manufacturer: HiBrite, Pussey and Jones, 1958
Speed: 916 m/min
Furnish: softwood 100% (33 - 36% kraft and 64 - 67% stone ground wood), ash 1%
Right hand drive from the headbox

Refiners
Kraft refiner Beloit DD 30” discs with a 600 Hp motor Refiner plates J&L 105/106 design on C90 material. Freeness 650 CSF

Approach flow
Primary fan pump: Ingersol Rand model 24ALV with a 100 Hp motor
Secondary fan pump: Ingersol Rand model 24 ALV with a 500 Hp motor
Clark and Vicario Deculator with tank 72” Ø x 383” long
Some LD cleaners missing

Pressure screens
Beloit primary screen: Bird model 24 centriscreen
Beloit secondary model 24 Johnnson vibrating screen for rejects

LD cleaners
Primary 32 Bauer cleaners model 623-4N
5 secondary cleaners Bauer 623-4N
Celleco Cleanpak 350 tertiary cleaners and RCC
All removed and transfered to another mill

Wire section
Beloit model H air padded headbox with 3 rectifier rolls, slice width 6248 mm
Weight control by Measurex with heated rods on 25 mm centers
Wire section with 1828 mm Ø dandy, wire is 270" wide x 218 ft in length
8 foil units
1 Orthoflo and three Hivac boxes
Suction couch roll
Breast roll to couch roll centres 20 m approximately
Cantilever wet end with run out wire section
Nash 904 U2 vacuum pump and one Nash H12A vacuum pump

Press section
Suction pick up roll with 3 straight through presses
First press is a double felted transfer press with load of 275 pli
Second press is top granite roll with a bottom roll suction and 365 pli
Third press is top granite and bottom Beloit Venta-nip roll with loading 450 pli

Dryer section
Total of 56 drying cylinders with a Ø of 1524 mm with one drive section and two felt sections
Total of 4 felt dryer felts
Steam pressure 30 psi on primary and 125 psi for recirculation supply
Dryers bolted ends and steam pressure could be increased subject to testing
4 steam sections for drying with Johnnson steam heads with rotating syphons
Measurex moisture control water shower mounted under dryer number 7
4 hood exhaust fans with 3 pocket ventilation blowers
Drying rate 3.3 based on 32 lb sheet running 2700 fpm

Calender
Single calender with 6 rolls, bottom roll being a Beloit CC roll with water temperature control on the intermediate rolls
Maximum load 438 pli
Measurex caliper control Caltrol mounted on the C roll

Scanner
Measurex model 2002 scanner measuring basis weight, caliper, moisture, brightness, thermatrol, caltrol and moistrol actuators

Pope reel
Horizontal pope reel with a grooved water cooled drum
Machine drive is in sections by electric motors and gearboxes. Each drive with individual control
General electric analog drive system from power supplied by DC drive systems

Rewinder
Cameron rewinder model 103 twin drum and single drive motor
Rider roll programming and load cell tension control with regenerative drive driven by electric motor
Rebuilt 1996 with Tidland vertical slitter section, 13 slitters with an electrical drive
Rewinder has single motor drive with gearbox
Reliance digital control up grade with automax 111 system
Rewind Ø: 1524 mm
Overhead crane capacity 50 ton
Paper machine has a starch cooker located next to a make up tank
Located outside is a jacketed tank for cooked starch
Located inside are 5 tanks for clay storage
De laminated clay tank f/glass
Three tanks external f/glass for diluted caustic, diluted sulphuric acid
Large clay storage tank stainless steel
F/Glass Alum storage tanks numbers 129, 128.107 and 106
Three F/Glass tanks number 13TK 036, 13TK035 and 13TK034
Broke system
Backwackwater fibre recovery by a Beloit Polydisc mounted on the roof with approx 36 discs fitted, repulper screw and vacuum assisted
BCI 12 ft batch pulper, M/S stainless lined tub, bottom motor drive via v. belts
BCI HD cleaner size LC10, operating pressure 75 psi, with pneumatic reject control
Finckh model 1 pressure screen year 1991
System complete with conveyor to pulper, water tank for pulper, pulp tank after pulper
The pulper has a V rope drive and is thickened by an inclined screw press mounted above the stock tank
Screw press Hooper diameter 10”