Pulp & Paper
Pulp & Paper
The Pulp and Paper industry is another behemoth that stands tall at about USD 500 billion in annual revenues. Though its a slow growing industry, in the wake of digitization, the uses in packaging and transportation are immense to continue to grow in volume. Even with emails and technology coming in a big way the impact on the industry hasn’t been one of complete disruption.
The recycled paper apart from the ones which are fresh generated from tree culling also form a part of the overall industry. Increasingly the focus is the reduction of tree felling for paper generation as fresh plantations are hardly able to compensate losses for full grown trees. The disposal post usage of paper and packaging that isn’t recycled could often end up being burnt thus it carries a carbon foot print even after usage.
Condition Monitoring in the Pulp and Paper industry has traditionally focussed on various elements that are efficiency and breakdown mitigation focussed.
Condition Monitoring Few Examples
- Vibrations Monitoring are used on the Boilers, Beating Process, Fourdrinier Machine etc
- All rotors, fans and moving parts in the plant
- Monitoring of truck engines through engine monitoring system
- Thermal imaging for keeping a check on the temperatures fluctuations
Test & Measurement Few Examples
- Leak detection for water flow and wastage
- Installed monitors or Drone based monitor surveillance of plant or storage
- Cable fault detection for fault and spark prevention