Kailash Vaishnav, General Manager – Marketing & Technical, Genuine Filters & Fabrics.
Cement industry should give AMC for the whole plant / area wise to avoid repeated breakdown and to increase the life of all the machine parts and finally to run the plant smoothly, says Kailash Vaishnav, General Manager – Marketing & Technical, Genuine Filters & Fabrics. Excerpts from the interview….
What are the requirements for filters used in a cement plant?
In raw mill/kiln system/clinker cooler especially for reverse air bag house (RABH) fibre glass with silicon, graphite and teflon (SGT) finish bags are required. If acidic fumes are higher due to impure coal etc. same fabric with PTFE membrane lamination is to be used for better life. For cement grinding acrylic/mixed felt as well as polyester non-woven needle felt with/without water repellent bags are to be used.
What are the product trends?
With regard to process filter the latest technological / product trend is to use fiber glass bags as well as hybrid (combo of polymide P84, fibre glass and PTFE). How process optimisation helps in reduction of environmental impact? The process optimisation definitely helps in reduction of environmental impact; say if we use appropriate fabric with high filtration efficiency will give low stake emission (even less than the government norms).
What is the scope of hybrid filters in the Indian cement industry?
In cement industry, use of hybrid filters is increasing fast. The hybrid filters are costlier than the existing but if you calculate the payback period then there are advantages like longer life and higher efficiency.
What are the product offerings from Genuine Filters?
For kiln, clinker cooler and raw mill de-dusting we are offering fiber glass with silicon, graphite and teflon (SGT) finish bags but the area where sulphur content is higher due to impure coal; we are offering same fabric with PTFE membrane lamination. The PTFE membrane having the following advantages:
- Stack emission nearer to zero.
- Consistent low DP.
- Easy and smooth cleaning of bags due to surface filtration.
- Can handle more volume/airflow.
- Improves production capacity.
- Reduction in operating cost.
- It increases life of filter bags.
Brief us on the value additions offered by Genuine Filters.
- Use of membrane bags for critical applications.
- Focus on cleaning method for example normally 4 to 5 bar is used to clean the conventional bags but we have seen in some area / plant they are giving 5.5 to 6 bar for cleaning the bags it reduces the bag life and increases the cost.
- Maintain proper air to cloth ratio. As we have seen in some cases; plant people are using higher volume against the design parameter and in some area less volume against design parameter. Both are affecting the operating cost.
- To maintain the emission level as minimum as possible especially in product recovery system.
- To use the better quality of fabric from a reputed supplier, it will reduce the indirect cost.