Hartog, Thomas, den (2022) Redesign of the wax application system for paper straw manufacturing at Tembo Paper. Design Project, Industrial Engineering and Management.
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Abstract
The research described in this Master’s Design Project concerns a frictional problem between paper and a stationary mandrel during straw winding in the paper straw production process at Tembo Paper. The current lubrication method, wax application by guiding the paper over a wax roll is not efficient due to in-house manufactured replacement consumables, not continuous nature, limited control capabilities, sensitivity to paper surface characteristics, and high waste of the wax lubricant. A scratch test experiment is used to quantify the relation between friction and an applied wax layer height, and a confocal microscope experiment to quantify the relation between roughness and an applied wax layer height, respectively. A friction reduction of up to 50% and a roughness reduction of up to 70% can be achieved for a wax layer height of maximal 15 µm. On the basis of the experimental results and the stakeholder requirements, a wax application method is designed that continuously and automatically applies wax to paper independent of the paper surface characteristics and allows control of the applied wax volume.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Design Project) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Bosch, A.J. and Pei, Y. |
| Degree programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management |
| Thesis type: | Design Project |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Mar 2023 11:41 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2023 11:41 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/29045 |
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