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Integrated paper pulp and process machinery having integrated drive and control and methods of use thereof

US6617720B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 6, 2000
Grant dateSep 9, 2003
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Expiry dateOct 6, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02K7/09
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention pertains to equipment and methods in which the rotatable drive member of a variable speed motor, such as a switched reluctance motor, carries a rotatable pulp processing element (10). Magnetic bearings (22, 24) levitatingly support both the rotatable drive member (15) and associated rotatable pulp processing element (41) and control axial and radial positionning thereof relative to the axis of rotation of the drive member.

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