Continual development over more than 20 years has delivered a revised shredder design that is better performing with lower associated life cycle costs. Sucrogen now operates eleven shredders installed at the eight sugar mills from Macknade in the north to Plane Creek...
This paper reports on a computational and experimental investigation into the dynamic impact of steel debris against sugar mill shredder hammer tips. During cane preparation, billets of cane are comminuted against tungsten carbide (WC) tips with impact velocities...
There is an urgent need to reduce operating costs in the Australian Sugar Industry. The development work undertaken on the coupling link has continued and has been consolidated with further design iterations, culminating in a production model for this concept. The...
The first Willison coupling improvements delivered the ‘Restraint Coupling’ in 1994, which is now in widespread use on 4-tonne and 6-tonne wagons throughout the Australian sugar industry. The improved Willison cane wagon coupling and the various components...
Wilmar Sugar has a population of 24 40-tonne locomotives, each having four axles. The combined axle population for the 40-t locomotives has various designs, material properties and age in service. Superimposed on these variables are manufacturing deficiencies,...
