Most sugar mills today utilise pendulum style fugals for batch operations. This type of centrifuge minimises forces transmitted to the factory platform, which is especially important for poorly purging massecuite. The newer trapezoidal frame ‘stand-alone’...
A presentation, entitled ‘An investigation of the vibration characteristics and unbalance tolerance of large (1500+) suspended batch fugals’, was made at a workshop at the 2012 ASSCT conference. The material presented was insightful and demonstrated the...