Centrifuges Replacement Study Proposal

Abstract

Primarily this paper was written to provide a general understanding of centrifuging phenomenon, invention and brief historical developments of centrifuges and their application in industrial world. Part of this paper is specifically dedicated to a detail evaluation study of conventional vertical ‘basket’ type centrifuges installed at ‘ABC’ manufacturing facility and a proposal of their replacement with modern design ‘peeler’ centrifuges. Advantages and disadvantages of basket (vertical) and peeler (horizontal) type centrifuges are discussed and evaluated. Chapters in the final part of the paper present a converged study of historic maintenance and operational costs associated to the basket type centrifuges installed at ‘ABC’ manufacturing facility. Design comparison of two types of centrifuges is made and study of alternative and replacement theory is used to make the final conclusion. Overall, the paper covers the different perspectives of centrifuge applications, design philosophy, maintenance and operational costs, and replacement/investment study. The analysis of the available data in the paper presents a final recommendation of replacing the basket type centrifuges with peeler design centrifuges at ‘ABC’ manufacturing facility. Finally select appendices are included providing additional information to support the contents of the paper.