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Chain Conveyor Upgrade - Corrosive Products
Customer was struggling with their conveyors transporting a corrosive by-product of crude oil processing. The chain was breaking and wearing fast, causing much downtime. 4B heavy duty links with corrosion-resistant pins and circlips improved the conveyor life by at least 50%.
Our customer was struggling with the life of the chain inside their chain conveyors. The chain conveyors where transporting a by-product of crude oil processing and wearing extremely fast.
The wear was mainly due to the corrosive nature of the product and the strength of the chain installed. The corrosion was wearing the chain links and pins quite rapidly and the low chain strength lead to rapid elongation of the links. These 2 issues combined resulted in many chain breaks and a lot of production time loss to maintenance on the conveyors.
We offered the 4B142HAD chain links with pins in AISI420 and circlips in AISI304. These pins had a higher resistance to corrosion and the HAD link is 33% stronger than the standard HA link. Because the link is through hardened, it remains quite strong in its core, even if the outer layer wears away. The chain solution was coupled with new sprocket segments made from Hardox 450 and treated to improve the corrosion resistance.
The changes made to this chain have improved the life of the chain conveyor by at least 50%. These improvements are more substantial when the maintenance of the conveyor is more frequent.
4B sprockets and trailers are manufactured from high grade heat treated steel to a minimum hardne
