AmaaFK
Industrial
- Mar 8, 2024
- 3
Hi everyone!
We have a fairly new (1 month old) crusher that's part of a PET recycling line. The crusher is supposed to crush 35mm pieces of PET bottles into 9mm flakes.
The crusher motor size is 90kw and it is supposed to be able to process up to 1000kg an hour of post consumer plastic bottles. The crusher was installed with a 12mm mesh initially and was comfortably processing 400 - 500kg per hour.
However, we got an order for 9mm flakes. Immediately we changed to a 9mm mesh, we saw capacity drastically reduce. The crusher can barely manage 200kg per hour. It gets full very quickly,and has begun to over heat every 45 minutes sometimes with a small stream of smoke coming out of the opening.
In addition, when it powers up, it is using up so much power that it regularly trips off the breakers in the panel, and sometimes our 500kW generator. We are also starting to hear some squeaks in the bearings which may be the issue.
I would really love any help with trying to manage this, as it is a major bottleneck for our production.
I've attached images and videos.
We have a fairly new (1 month old) crusher that's part of a PET recycling line. The crusher is supposed to crush 35mm pieces of PET bottles into 9mm flakes.
The crusher motor size is 90kw and it is supposed to be able to process up to 1000kg an hour of post consumer plastic bottles. The crusher was installed with a 12mm mesh initially and was comfortably processing 400 - 500kg per hour.
However, we got an order for 9mm flakes. Immediately we changed to a 9mm mesh, we saw capacity drastically reduce. The crusher can barely manage 200kg per hour. It gets full very quickly,and has begun to over heat every 45 minutes sometimes with a small stream of smoke coming out of the opening.
In addition, when it powers up, it is using up so much power that it regularly trips off the breakers in the panel, and sometimes our 500kW generator. We are also starting to hear some squeaks in the bearings which may be the issue.
I would really love any help with trying to manage this, as it is a major bottleneck for our production.
I've attached images and videos.
