Abstract:
A method for additive machining of a refiner plate segment having a feature pattern includes: fabricating the refiner plate segment with a partial feature pattern from a first material: performing optical scanning of the refiner plate segment to identify positions of features in the partial feature pattern: automatically generating first code for performing three-dimensional (3D) printing of a second material at first specified locations in the partial feature pattern from data obtained from the optical scanning; and performing 3D printing of the second material at the specified locations.
Abstract:
A plate segment includes a substrate having a front side and a back side, wherein the back side is configured to be mounted to a support disc of a disperser; rows of teeth protruding from the front side of the substrate, wherein each of the rows are arranged along an arc extending from one side of the plate segment to an opposite side of the plate segment. In at least one of the rows of teeth, adjacent teeth are joined by a bridge spanning a gap between the adjacent teeth. The bridge is elevated above the front side of the substrate such that the bridge is separated from the front side by an open space in the gap.
Abstract:
A disperser-refiner plate segment comprising a refining section disposed radially outward from a dispersion section, wherein a height of the teeth in the dispersion section exceeds a height of the bars in the refining section. It is believed that disperser-refiner plate segments as described herein will allow operators to combine dispersion with refining and give operators greater control over the level of dispersion while minimally affecting the level of refining.
Abstract:
A flinger or refiner plate for a mechanical refiner including deep notches or holes in feeder bars of the flinger plate and/or open passages or holes in bars of the refiner plate. The open passages and/or holes in the bars significantly reduce stagnate flow zones at the trailing side of the bars during operation of the mechanical refiner. The reduction of the stagnate flow zones may reduce or eliminate fiber accumulation at the trailing side of the bars.
Abstract:
A refining system and process using a specially designed stator refiner plate. The specially designed stator refiner plate includes a major refining surface having a series of bars and grooves, the bars include a leading surface having an irregular surface. The irregular surface hosts a series of protrusions extending along the bar. The bar further comprises a trailing surface that is relatively smooth compared to the leading surface. The trailing surface lacks an irregular surface.
Abstract:
A system for refining lignocellulosic material including a first stator plate segment refining zone and a first rotor place segment refining zone, each of which has grooves. The rotor plate groove width is larger than the stator plate groove width in the inner part of the refining zone, but substantially similar in the outer part of the refining zone.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to an apparatus for a counter-rotating mechanical refiner configured to mitigate the problems of feeding variations, load variations, high energy consumption due to poor feeding efficiency, low pulp quality, and reduced throughput capacity by positioning a flinger proximate to a rotor gap side of a first rotor, wherein the first rotor further comprises an inlet extending through the first rotor, such that a portion of the operational flinger deflects feed material from the inlet into the refiner gap while rotating in the direction of the first rotor.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to a refiner plate segment, mechanical refiners, and methods to manufacture a refiner plate segment having one or more water channels disposed in a variable substrate profile along the radial length of a refiner plate segment base and disposed between the refiner plate segment inlet and the primary refining section, wherein the variable substrate profile comprises an undulating curve configured to complement a second undulating curve on an opposing refiner plate, and wherein dimensions of the one or more water channels are sufficiently narrow to prevent wood chips from entering the water channels and sufficiently wide to provide a bypass path for the free water.
Abstract:
A set of plate segments for refining comminuted cellulosic material including: a first plate segment and a second plate segment, wherein the first plate segment and the second plate segment each have a refining side configured to oppose the refining side on the other segment, and each of said refining sides includes a refining zone having bars and grooves between adjacent ones of the bars, wherein distance between the grooves in the first plate segment and the grooves in the second plate segment is substantially constant along an arc through the refining zone while the set is mounted to discs in a refiner.
Abstract:
An assembly of opposing discs or cones for a disperser where each disc or cone has mounted to it a plate or an array of plate segments with a front surface on each plate or array of plate segments and each surface has a series of bars, grooves and dams. The bars are in rows, with the rows separated by annular dams at substantially fixed radial locations, and the grooves are adjacent the bars in the rows so that the grooves form a serpentine passage extending radially between the opposing plates or array of plate segments on the opposing discs or cones. The opposing plate or array of plate segments are arranged such that the annular dams on one plate or array of plate segments face roughly the middle of the row of bars on the opposing plate or array of plate segments.