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ACTOM Air Pollution Control wins comprehensive dust control contract for PPC’s Slurry factory finish
Product News Monday, October 1, 2012: ACTOM Air Pollution Control
Leading cement producer Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), which is upgrading finishing mill 4 at its Slurry cement factory near Mafikeng, North West Province, has selected ACTOM Air Pollution Control to provide the dust control systems required for the upgrade.
Finishing mill 4’s capacity is being increased by between 5 and 10% and ACTOM Air Pollution Control will install a 76 000 Am3/hour capacity reverse pulse bag filter to replace the existing electrostatic precipitator. The bag filter is designed to handle both the higher dust volumes and to further reduce dust emission levels in accordance with the newly legislated 2015 environmental emission target of 30 mg/Nm3.
Raymond Hopkins, ACTOM Air Pollution Control’s Project Manager on the contract, said that the new finishing mill bag filter will be installed on the existing steelwork and concrete structure which currently supports the existing electrostatic precipitator.
The contract also includes the design, supply and installation of two new bag filters – each with an air moving capacity of 16 000 Am3/hour – to dedust two new high efficiency separators that are being erected as part of the finishing mill 4 upgrade. The replacement of the existing separators by third generation separators will result in more effective separation of different cement particle sizes and production of higher quality cement, as well as contributing to increasing the finishing mill’s output.
The main mill bag filter and the separator filters will be capable of handling operational inlet gas temperatures of up to 125 degrees C.
PPC awarded the contract to ACTOM Air Pollution Control in May this year and commissioning is scheduled to commence in April 2013.
Dipeen Dama, PPC’s Senior Project Manager, said that in addition to being competitively priced, ACTOM Air Pollution Control submitted a high quality bid for the contract in terms of the adjudication criteria, relating to the technical, commercial, financial, risk, BBBEE, delivery and execution requirements for the project.
ACTOM (Pty) Ltd is the largest manufacturer, repairer and distributor of electro-mechanical equipment and provider of turnkey solutions in Southern Africa, employing about 7 500 people with an annual order intake in excess of R7.5bn. It is a black empowered company with 42 operating units, 43 production, service and repair facilities, and 36 distribution outlets throughout Southern Africa.
ACTOM holds numerous technology, distribution and value added reseller agreements with various partners, both locally and internationally.
