Join Us for the TAPPI Paper Machine Drives Course in Florida

This short course will be held June 27-28 during the conference. It focuses on paper machine drives and will aid in the complete understanding of the selection, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of all paper machine drive systems, ac or dc. The Paper Machine Drives Course is designed for anyone in the mill with responsibility for the drives on a paper machine, mill/plant engineers and lead operators, application and design engineers, electrical superintendents, and suppliers of paper mill drives.

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This course will help you understand the power demand calculations, the drive configurations for the sections, the detailed application of ac drives, analysis of problems and troubleshooting techniques, proper installation techniques and "gotchas" plus what to do to upgrade an existing drive system. All of this is directed to the drives of the paper machine and winder.

There are six key learning outcomes for this course listed below. 

1. Discuss the range of modern paper machinery and modern machine configurations
2. Calculate drive HP using "unit constant" or "component value" theory
3. Explain the fundamental relationships between mechanical and electrical systems and identify major application considerations of drive train components
4. Discuss AC drive selection and application, as well as installation and economic considerations of AC vs DC drives
5. Describe existing load and speed data for rebuilding a paper machine and evaluate data for HP selection
6. Apply the fundamentals of disturbance analysis techniques to solve problems

View rates, learn more and register at www.pulppaper.org/registration.

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