YOUR CHALLENGE:
CHEMISTRY HAS LIMITATIONS
Chemistry only takes you so far. Your purchasing agreement can create a conflict of interest between your costs and overall process efficiency. What’s more, your procurement team can’t always see the impact that under- or overuse of defoamer has on your process.
YOUR CHALLENGE:
CHEMISTRY HAS LIMITATIONS
Chemistry only takes you so far. Your purchasing agreement can create a conflict of interest between your costs and overall process efficiency. What’s more, your procurement team can’t always see the impact that under- or overuse of defoamer has on your process.
Did you know…
Too much—or too little—defoamer usage can impact your sheet sizing, create deposits, and contribute to felt filling.3
So what?
Ultimately, your production quality is tied to the survival of your business. Maintaining proper dosages of defoamer helps your machines produce high-grade paper—even at fast-growing volumes.
As your cost pressures continue to climb, so do your expectations for your machinery’s reliability—and defoamer misuse can deeply impact its readiness. Too little and your machines won’t perform as expected and cause formation issues. Too much and you’ll see deposits, strength degradation, sizing loss, and other defects that impact output quality.
THE SOLUTION:
ACHIEVE BEST-IN-CLASS DEFOAMER USE
When you partner with Buckman, you will decouple your control technology from your defoamer purchasing with a subscription model. You’ll also break free from the chemistry cycle, using closed-loop control to hold entrained air at your defined target—simplifying your papermaking process so that it’s consistent, reliable, and cost-efficient.
DECOUPLE YOUR PROCESS STABILITY FROM DEFOAMER PURCHASING
Through Buckman’s subscription model, you can decouple your process stability from defoamer purchasing with the flexibility to implement our Ackumen™ ECHOWISE® Pro in all your mills, regardless of the defoamer each location has agreed to purchase.
BREAK THE CHEMISTRY CYCLE BY HOLDING AIR AT TARGET
With the Ackumen™ ECHOWISE® Pro’s closed-loop control capability, you’ll automatically and precisely dose defoamer based on real-time entrained air data—flattening air, removing it as a variable, and freeing your operators from manual adjustments and other experiments that could introduce more complications downstream.
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3. “Closed Loop Defoamer Stabilizes Paper Machine Operations,” PaperCon, 2011.