FAST SIEMENS SERVICE SWEETENS BRITISH SUGAR

Siemens 26/05/2010

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When a worm gear drive crown wheel failed due to overload on a conveyor belt at British Sugar’s Wissington plant, the priority was to get things running again quickly; the result was 10% improved efficiency.

The conveyor fed limestone/coke into a kiln to purify the sugar. In the run-up to the plant’s busiest time, British Sugar approached Siemens Industry’s Mechanical Handling Division, which supplied the original Flender Cavex 280 worm gear unit in 1997.

Siemens suggested an energy-efficient, bevel helical Flender FZG gearbox, size B3HH08. Where the existing Cavex had a rating of 12,500Nm at 1,000rpm, the new unit was rated at 27,000Nm, considerably higher torque rating. The Cavex was 74-85% efficient; the FZG offered 95% efficiency, at lower cost than a replacement worm gear.

A spokesman commented: “We had great service turnaround, we have a more efficient gear unit with twice the rating, and at a lower cost; a great result.”

For more information contact;

Siemens Automation & Drive Technologies(Flender), Leeds Road, Bradford.
Tel: 01274 657700 Fax: 01274 669836

E-mail: anna.grimshaw@siemens.com