Major recycling facility invests in Starclean to keep their conveyors moving
Starclean belt cleaners improve performance of 32 conveyors at Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility (RERF). Reducing clean-up of waste and reducing maintenance…
The RERF removes recyclable materials from black bin household waste and recovers energy from the remaining waste. As part of the Mechanical Pre-Treatment (MPT) process, over 50 belt conveyors transport waste around the plant.
The variety of materials conveyed was extremely challenging to handle and often overwhelmed the OEM conveyor belt cleaners. Waste clogged the cleaners and became entangled in the mechanism. Cleaning performance was reduced, resulting in additional waste being dropped onto the floor. The build-up of waste also jammed conveyor components and caused regular stoppages for replacement.
In search of a better solution, the maintenance supervisor contacted ProSpare.
The client chose to trial Starclean belt cleaners on the facility’s longest conveyor. It dropped the most waste and regularly experienced downtime for cleaning and roller replacement.
ProSpare installed a Starclean PU pre-cleaner and tungsten secondary cleaner to combat the effects of both the larger items of waste and the sticky organic material which adhered to the belt surface.
Since installation, the belt is notably cleaner and waste dropped from the conveyor has dramatically reduced. It also experiences far fewer problems from waste interfering with return rollers.
Following this success, the client has installed 50+ Starclean belt cleaners, experiencing large improvements across 32 conveyors. With Starclean:
- Frequency of clean down for scrapers has halved.
- Time involved for scraper clean down has reduced from 15mins per scraper to just 2mins.
- Each scraper can now be cleaned by one operative instead of two.
- Downtime reduced as fewer problems are experienced with rollers.
The maintenance supervisor stated:
“The Starclean belt cleaners really help minimise problems in our challenging environment. We are cleaning up significantly less waste and spending less time maintaining the conveyors.”
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