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The centrifuges are among the principal types of equipment manufactured by JSC «Sumy Frunze NPO». Their manufacture was started by the Company in 1902. At that time they were as low-speed suspended basket, and of simple design. The basket was driven by bevel pinions. The train of several centrifuges was driven by transmission with common drive of steam-engine.
In the 1930s the Company mastered the production of centrifuges with individual electric drive, and in 1940 the first automatic centrifuge of АG-1800 type was manufactured. In the 1950-1960s four-cascade continuous-action centrifuges for refined sugar production were designed and manufactured. Two-cascade centrifuges of FGP-400, 630, 800 types were supplied for production of copper vitriol, sodium chloride, ammonium sulphate, and for by product coke plants. The whole range of centrifuges made of titanium was mastered by the Company. In 1961 the Company's experts developed new design of automated suspended centrifuge for sugar industry with basket capacity of 500 kg per cycle. It was a step forward in national centrifuge engineering. The manufacture of centrifuges for sugar industry covers the largest part of centrifuges supplied by the Company. By the late 1980s their output was increased up to 560 pes. per year. At present more than 12,000 centrifuges are being operated at sugar-refineries in many Automatic filtering and settling centrifuges manufactured by JSC «Sumy Frunze NPO» are in operation in chemical, biological, chemical-recovery coke, food and other branches of industry of the CIS (Sumy Chemical Plant, BEREZNIKIAZOT, Tambov Production Enterprise PIGMENT, Sterlitamak Production Enterprise SODA, Ufa Oil Refinery, Volgograd Production Enterprise CHIMPROM, Novo-Neftekamsk Iodine and Bromine Plant, Novosibirsk Tin and Zink Plant, Achinsk Alumina Refinery). Continuous action centrifuges are widely used in chemical, oil refining and food branches of the industry, as well as in the waste water treatment plants of big towns and factories, at hemotransfusion stations, slaughtering and meat processing plants, fishing fleet (waste water treatment plants of Sumy Chemical Plant, Sumy Slaughtering and Meat Processing Plant; Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ivanovo, Sochi, as well as Soligorsk Potassium Plant and Berezniki Potassium Plant, etc.). In the 1970s our company mastered a large variety of the multi-cascade centrifuge with pusher discharge of sediment of FGP type having diameter of the 1 st cascade basket of 400 to 1450 mm. The centrifuge of FGP type is mainly used in the production of chemical fertilizers. Berezniki and Solikamsk potassium production plants of Russia and BELARUSPOTA-SSIUM Company were equipped with these centrifuges. At present JSC «Sumy Frunze NPO» produces nearly all centrifuge types known in the world engineering, including modern heavy-duty automatic centrifuges with continuous cycle, high-speed tubular centrifuges, etc. These centrifuges are completed with modern energy-saving variable speed electric drives, frequency converters and regeneration units manufactured by «Siemens», automatic control systems based on state-of-the-art programmable controllers and other technical means produced by «Schneider Electric». |
Centrifuges


