Abstract:
To regulate the basis weight cross section of the fiber suspension dispensed by the outlet of a headbox of a paper making machine onto the screen or screens of the following forming section, the headbox is sectioned across the width of the machine with individual first sections of fiber suspension across the width. The fiber suspension on the screen(s) in the following forming section is drained and the drained filtrate is collected in second sections respectively generally corresponding to the first sections of the headbox. The removed sectioned filtrate is recycled to the respective sections of the headbox and is mixed with the suspension normally entering the headbox to regulate and make more uniform the basis weight cross section of the fiber suspension.
Abstract:
A headbox for a paper machine is characterized by having: at least one machine-wide channel region which defines a main direction of flow; a region for the production of turbulence; a plurality of feed lines distributed over the machine width and discharging into the headbox channel region; an adjusting device in each feed line for controlling the quantity of flow; an angle .alpha. between the main direction of flow and the feed line; and the angle .alpha. being selected in such a manner that, regardless of the amount fed by the feed line, the total volumetric flow in the region directly downstream of the feed line remaining constant.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a machine for the production and/or treatment of strip or sheet material (20), particularly paper or cardboard, which is connected to at least one associated fuel cell (26) such that the thermal energy produced by the fuel cell unit (26) can be supplied to the machine as operating energy. Thermal energy produced by the fuel cell (26) can be supplied to at least one heating section (10) of the machine, said section being embodied in such a way that it can heat or be heated during an operating state of the machine.
Abstract:
Press section and process for dewatering a fibrous material web that includes a plurality of rolls arranged to form at least three nips and at least one endlessly circulating dewatering belt associated with each nip. Each at least one endlessly circulating dewatering belt is structured and arranged to guide the fibrous material web through its respective nip and to receive water squeezed out of the fibrous material web in the respective nip. The plurality of rolls include at least one press roll having a smooth surface arranged to contact a surface of the fibrous material web and an endlessly circulating, smooth transfer belt is structured and arranged to contact a surface of the fibrous material web opposite the surface contacting the smooth surface of the at least one press roll and to support the fibrous material web through at least one of the at least three nips.
Abstract:
Process for determining disturbances of a moisture cross profile of a fibrous material web in a paper making machine, a paper making machine, and a measuring arrangement for measuring the disturbances, the process including guiding the fibrous material web by way of at least one water-permeable belt and collecting and draining off water released from the belt. The water is collected by several sections separated from one another. The process further includes measuring per time unit, the amount of water in each section, wherein the sections extend at right angles to a web running direction over only a partial section of the fibrous material web. The paper making machine includes at least one water-permeable belt, the belt being wrapped around a roll. The measuring arrangement includes a water collection device having the form of one of a trough or channel.
Abstract:
Process and apparatus for dewatering a fibrous material web. The process includes guiding the fibrous material web through a dewatering zone, and directing a plurality of gas pressure pulses of a pressurized displacement gas one after the other onto a surface of the fibrous material web within the dewatering zone. The apparatus includes a device for forming a plurality of gas pressure pulses which are arranged one after the other within the dewatering zone. The plurality of gas pressure pulses are directed onto a surface of the fibrous material web.
Abstract:
Process for cleaning or maintaining the cleanliness of a low-consistency branch of a stock density-regulated headbox system including a constant part of a paper or cardboard machine having at least one high-consistency branch and one low-consistency branch, possibly sectioned. The final concentration output by the headbox onto a wire or between two wires is determined by a mixing ratio of high-concentration and low-concentration suspension flows. The process includes supplying the low-consistency branch with an increased content of solid particles. Headbox system including a constant part of a paper or cardboard machine, having a stock density regulation that is sectioned across the machine width by variably mixing a high-consistency suspension and a low-consistency suspension, with a high-consistency branch and a low-consistency branch. The headbox system includes at least one supply to the low-consistency branch for introducing solid particle contents into the suspension flow.
Abstract:
Process for controlling and consistency-controlled headbox for a paper machine with a common feed line for a pulp slurry, a plurality of feed line sections into which the common feed line branches, and a system for influencing the composition of the slurry flows in each of the plurality of feed line sections. At least one pulp consistency sensor is provided for sectional pulp consistency control.
Abstract:
A headbox for a paper machine and a process for controlling consistency of the slurry. The headbox includes a turbulence insert having an inlet end and a distributing pipe having a connecting area. The distributing pipe may extend across a width of the paper machine for feeding a slurry flow through the connecting area and into the turbulence insert. The headbox may also include a nozzle having an outlet gap and a plurality of feed lines supplying control flows. The plurality of feed lines may be coupled to the connecting area at an angle .alpha. between approximately 5.degree. and 170.degree. with respect to a directional component of the slurry flow directed toward the turbulence insert, the plurality of feed lines may be positioned in a vicinity of the inlet end. The headbox may further include a device for adjusting the control flows, whereby a consistency of the slurry flow may be adjusted in the vicinity of the inlet end by adjusting the control flows, while a constant volumetric flow of the slurry flow is maintained in the vicinity of the inlet end. The process includes feeding a slurry flow to the headbox across a width of the machine, distributing a plurality of control flows across the width, maintaining a constant rate volumetric flow of the slurry flow, and injecting the plurality of control flows in a vicinity of the turbulence insert at an angle .alpha., between approximately 5.degree. and 170.degree., with respect to a flow component of the slurry flow directed toward the turbulence insert. In this manner, the plurality of control flows may be diverted less than approximately 180.degree. in the distributing pipe to include a flow direction substantially parallel to the slurry flow.
Abstract:
A headbox of a paper machine for distributing stock suspension over the machine width of the paper machine onto a forming or wire section includes a headbox nozzle that extends over the machine width and that has spaced apart top and bottom lips that gradually converge from the stock nozzle inlet toward the nozzle outlet. At least one baffle that extends over the machine width is located in the nozzle between the lips and spaced therefrom. The length of the baffle in the flow direction of the stock suspension is less than twice the maximum spacing or height between the top and bottom lips of the headbox nozzle, which is the spacing between them at the tallest space, typically at the upstream entrance end of the nozzle. In addition, the length of the baffle is at most less than 50% the length of the nozzle. The baffle tapers narrower in height in the flow direction, and the angle of divergence of the top and bottom surfaces of the baffle is less than 5.degree. from the flow direction of the suspension through the nozzle.