Powder King®, founded in 2003 by Jim Hummel who is now a 25 year veteran in the Rotational Molding Industry and has 40 years fabrication experience, has once again taken their line of pulverizing systems to the next level.
Powder King® is well known for their unigue direct drive, operator friendly, compact modular space saving systems. The systems are built with all the lastest technolgy not available by others in the industry, such as: direct drive mill to utilize 100% of available HP of the mill motor; pocketed designed flywheels and water jacketed adjusting fixtures to mount their one-piece abrasive resistant disks; and utilizes disks compeletly captivated 360 degrees on OD and ID of their disks by segmented clamping system.
Powder King® also has state of the art single screw disks gapping adjusters to make setting the gap between the disks fast and extremly simple, unlike other methods that require many tools and are very time consuming to set the gapping between the disks.The disk gap adjusters are only on a Powder King® pulverizing system. The systems also have integrated work platforms for operators to access the different levels of the machine and sifters which are 100% guarded to protect operators from the moving sifter boxes as well as when accessing the area via work platform. All systems have a break over hinged cyclone for ease of access and cleaning. All piping is heavy guage using O-ring sealing clamps to quickly clamp together the piping and insure of leak free connnections. The machine control is powered by Eaton Cutler Hammer PLC and HMI touchscreen control, allowing the machine to percisly control the pulverizing process.
“The newly developed, patient pending PKA Velocity Series™ design has gone to the next level of pulverizing. We have engineered and produced our fourth generation system,” said President and Owner of Powder King® Jim Hummel. “We are always looking for ways to make our equipment better for the industries we serve, and the new PKA Velocity Series ™ will be the ticket to great success for Powder King®, said Hummel. The newly designed mill now has dual air inlets controlled by air damping valves to control the volume of air intake into each of the air inlets in the mill chamber. These double the amount of air intake into the
mills cutting chamber.
The mill also has dual material outlets which takes the material out of each side of the mill to reduce residence time and heat build up in the mill. The direct drive mill is powered by a 150 HP motor, which is driven by an inverter drive mounted into the control panel of the machine for the mill motor. “We are always concious about power demands and costs of operation. This is why an inverter drive is used. The start up of this motor only draws 50-55 amps at start up of the mill, unlike other starting methods utilized by other machines that causes huge power draws and spikes in customer’s electrical demand, and dramtically increases the cost of electrical usage for our customers. The inverter drive also serves other purposes in our systen, like adjusting the tip speed of the mill’s disks should control be needed to alter grinds of some resins. This is a added feature I don’t think othes think about when versatility is needed in some cases,” said Jim Hummel.
The PKA Velcosity Series™ mills are born from understanding polymers and the pulverizing process, and also from being willing to be creative, and by a willingness to explore options other than standard type of pulverizing mills that have more or less the same principals of the milling process. Power King® has always been creative and we never intend to stop further research and development of our products and the pulverizing process.
The new PKA Velocity Series™ mill design is proving to produce some very large numbers for a single mill pulverizing system, which is sure to turn some heads and once again prove to the industry Powder King®’s commitment in producing producing world class systems.
For information about Powder King® feel free to contact us or visit us on the web at www.powder-king.com
from an article at RotoWorld®
https://rotoworldmag.com/powder-king-announces-their-new-pka-velocity-seriespulverizing-system/
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