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Re: Stenter machines : Codes?
Posted by: Sir Gary (IP Logged)
Date: December 06, 2018 04:09PM

A stenter machine is (and don't worry, I didn't know either) a 150'-long machine
which takes rolls of textile fabric (6' - 10' wide), unrolls it, passes it through a chemical bath (if required),
then passes it through a number of heated chambers to stretch/cure the fabric.
The chambers (in my case) have air pumped in from below through radiators
(heated by heat-exchange oil, piped in from a distant boiler) before being pumped out
(overheat ducting leading to a blower in the base of a tin chimney) to exhaust.

The heat-exchange oil does not come in contact with the airflow/fabric, which does give of fluff (and in the case of polyester, apparently an oily residue), so I have a material-first-ignited.
Operating T's are generally below 210C/410F, so I'm looking for a plausible ignition source.

Jurisdiction & Inspections - this is Africa...



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  Stenter machines : Codes? 1176 Sir Gary 11/25/2018 02:36PM
  Re: Stenter machines : Codes? 689 markspoo 11/27/2018 08:43AM
  Re: Stenter machines : Codes? 619 Sir Gary 12/06/2018 04:09PM
  Re: Stenter machines : Codes? 638 dcarpenter 12/08/2018 08:11AM
  Re: Stenter machines : Codes? 583 markspoo 12/11/2018 08:43AM
  Re: Stenter machines : Codes? 584 dcarpenter 12/12/2018 09:52PM


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