Discharge pumps For polymers and pre-polymers
Discharge pumps
The sum of all benefits is efficiency. This makes Oerlikon Barmag pumps an ingenious investment.
Oerlikon Barmag has been building precision gear pumps since 1922 for the most varied of applications. For over 30 years, discharge pumps for polymerization and polycondensation plants have been part of the production program. During this time, the pumps were continually further developed and adapted to the respective process requirements in an optimal manner. Oerlikon Barmag discharge pumps are characterized by their high operating reliability and extreme durability.
Discharge pumps – Oerlikon Barmag
The most important process-technology benefits are: - low power consumption; - low temperature increase in the melt (âˆ†Ď„); - low shear of the melt in the bearing points; - excellent filling of the gears as a result of the optimal feeding section; - even heating as a result of optimally distributed heating channels.
Geometry optimization
Oerlikon Barmag pumps are convincing in the polymer and in the pre-polymer area, as a result of their optimized design.
Housing geometry In the case of very high viscosities the large inlet diameter and the wedgeshaped feeding channel guarantee 100% filling of the discharge pump. This is further supported by the large gear modulus. The compact construction permits good, uniform heating without the need for heating the side plates separately. By using materials with the same heat expansion coefficients, the clearances set during assembly therefore correspond to the conditions during operation.
Geometry of the gears In general, Oerlikon Barmag gear pumps are designed with straight gears, to ensure that the gears – free of axial forces – are able to perfectly center them-selves in the product chamber. The special design of the bottom of the tooth gaps avoids high compression pressures and pressure pulsations. When being discharged on the outlet side, the melt can completely and gently escape to the face-side relief channels. Furthermore, the selection of the optimum modulus provides efficient conveying of the melt.
Discharge pumps – Oerlikon Barmag
Pump design
Professional calculation programs based on many years of experience, provide an optimized process-technology design for the Oerlikon Barmag discharge pumps. In addition to calculating processtechnology variables such as power consumption and melt temperature increase, the flow conditions, in particular inside the bearings, can be simulated for various individual cases. This permits optimum pump designs for each application. Layout diagram of a 4,200 cc/rev. discharge pump
3-D model for the 8500 cc/rev. discharge pump
Discharge pumps – Oerlikon Barmag
Principle of lubrication system
Seal systems
Stuffing box seal The stuffing box seal is the most commonly used seal and is simpler than the mechanical seal. The compressed seal can be adjusted in the event of wear
and tear. Integrated into the stuffing box seal is a chamber filled with a sealing fluid. Therefore, the pump can be started up and operated vacuum-tight.
Stuffing box rings Buffer fluid Pressure springs
Ring
Thread seal The thread seal exclusively seals using the thermoplastic medium that is being processed. In the jacket’s reverse thread, the melt slowly rises in the
direction of the outlet and cools, hence sealing it from inside and simultaneously functioning as a lubricant. A seal against any vacuum in the pump interior is not possible.
Thread
POLYVAC Because it is inexpensive and highly impervious, the Oerlikon Barmag-developed POLYVAC is the perfect seal. As a result of the combination, this seal unites the benefits of the stuffing box seal and the thread seal.
Sealing bushing with reverse thread
Further benefits: - low-maintenance seal, also against vacuum; - adjustable leakage by separate cooling.
Cooling medium outlet Temperature measurement hole Buffer fluid inlet Buffer fluid chamber
Graphite packing ring Buffer fluid outlet Cooling medium inlet
Mechanical seal The mechanical seal with its gliding ring and counter ring, each directed to the melt and ambient side respectively, offers extremely good sealing properties and is the perfect solution for discharge
pumps for pre-polymers. The buffer fluid circulating between the counter rings is heated by a thermo-siphon system and kept under pressure so that melt does not exit, or air enter.
Rotating gliding ring
Counter ring
Buffer fluid inlet
Shaft jacket
Clamping ring Buffer fluid outlet
Counter ring Rotating gliding ring Drainage
Discharge pumps – Oerlikon Barmag
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