Efficiency boost for paint plant
July 1st 2011 A powder coating line at
Cooper Lighting and Safety,
Doncaster, uses Lanemark's
TX tank heating systems and
its FD oven drying counterparts
– in the form of the
latest FD-C (GA) gas and air
modulating control system.
The installation is for the
powder coating of steel and
aluminium panels and
components. These are on an
overhead conveyor that
enters the system via a fourstage,
pre-treatment facility.
Here, a degreasing phosphate
tank and a demineralised
water rinse tank sit under
two spray chambers. Each
tank is heated by a Lanemark
TX60 burner system, which
fires into a small diameter
immersion tube heat
exchanger, through the
process tank walls. Lanemark's
TxCalc modelling software
was used in the heat
exchanger design, predicting
efficiencies in excess of 80%,
which are now being achieved.
Components transfer to a
three-pass dry off oven that
uses a Lanemark FD10-C
(GA) burner system, before
proceeding to the automatic
powder coating facility. An
eight-pass curing oven has
two Lanemark FD10-C (GA)
burner systems – one at each
end of the oven chamber.
Maintenance manager Tony
Parkin, says: "The performance
of the pre-treatment heating
system together with the
accurate temperature control
and even heat distribution in
both the drying and curing
ovens, are central to the
success of the operation, and
they help speed throughput." More articles from Lanemark International Limited: | 
