Paul Auer GmbH was one of the first blasting technology manufactures putting the important topic „energy saving in the blast technology industry" at the top of its agenda. For this year's Hanover Fair we focused our efforts of research on a significant subsection of the blast technology - blasting with a mixture from water and different blast grains - which led to the development of a new wetblast system. Appropriate patents are announced.
At present, one of the emphases in the wide-spread sphere of activity of water blasting is the treating of cutting tools before the coating. With this new, special blasting procedure we get an extraordinary quality of the treatment concerning surfaces, deburring and other for cutting tools substantial parameter. Partially, the results gained from this new system of wetblasting cannot be obtained with the conventional water blasting procedures. Also important is the advantage of really astonishing energy saving costs. In comparing to the usual water blasting procedures the consumption of compressed air is around 50 - 80% lower with the new procedure. Due to the high efficiency of the system regarding necessary compressed air a commercial workshop compressor is already sufficient for the operation of the machine, i.e. a connection to larger compressed air networks is not any longer necessary.
Further cost advantages are:
- Minimum cost of electricity because of an innovative pneumatics system that produces a permanent, homogeneous mixing of water and blast grain as well as the transport of the mixture - without any electric motors.
- Extremely small maintenance costs and small spare part costs, because during the development attention was paid to the fact that wear elements can be installed simply with economical parts.
- Very high blasting power by the new, special kind of the mixture processing with blast grains and water
At present we conduct an intensive basic research over further application and operational areas of the new blasting procedure. We assume the range of application is not only limited to cutting tools, but possesses a broadly diversified spectrum just as the conventional wet blasting procedures, but the advantages of the new blasting procedure will differ in large energy and cost savings.
We will also present a sample variant of the new water blast system at the Hanover fair 2011.
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