Briquetting presses iSwarf

Presses iSwarf are economical machines with low power consumption. They process chips from machining steel, cast iron and non-ferrous metals particularly aluminium. The standard range
of presses iSwarf is large and offers many variants of throughputs and equipments. The combination of hydraulic pump motor input ranging from 4 kW to 15 kW and the diameter of the pressing tools from 55 mm do 100 mm resolves the requirement for the briquettes quality and the throughput of the briquetting press. The advantage of the briquetting press iSwarf is the use of the patented
hydraulic system construction which enables very easily to increase the pressing power in case of increased production. The hopper type can be selected with respect to the material and the way of connection to the technological line. Thanks to their modular construction the presses iSwarf can fulfil the most demanding requirements for operation automation and other technology equipment.

Presses iSwarf are best of all fed by material directly from an existing system of transport of chips from machining centres. It is also possibly to fill the system manually or through a lifting device which dumps chips from containers into the press hopper. Briquettes are extruded from the press with a single conducting system to a height of 940 mm to the packaging place.

General informationMain advantagesAccessoriesTechnical parametres

Materials for pressing

aluminium chips
magnesium chips
titanium chips
steel chips
cast iron chips

Regards to very different properties of alloys – metals above, it is necessary to verify material suitability for briquetting, and at the same time the material can be exposed to performance test, which is performed by the BRIKLIS personnel in the BRIKLIS test room free of charge.

Briquette properties

The briquettes have a shape of cylinder of diameter according pressing tools from 55 to 100 mm, average length is the same like diameter.

Specific weight of aluminium chip briquette is from 2,000 to 2,200 kg/m³.

Standard equipment

Hopper in 3 variants with a dosing screw
Briquette guiding in form of a trough or conveyour for transport of the briquettes into a container
Oil cooler for an uninterrupted operation
Control panel with display

Other information

How to determine necessary capacity of the press?

Help in selection of optional accessories

The chips from aluminium cutting contaminated by cooling oil are suitable raw material for processing directly in the plant where they arise. Metal briquette melting produces more molten metal than melting of bulk chips. Furthermore, in pressing the cooling oil that earlier left the plant together with unprocessed chips is caught.

For this material a large-capacity hopper is recommended, because the chips are loose and light. The hopper with four endless screwsis suitable for longer chips, which are not loose, but can be easily unbundled. Depending on material properties, the hopper can be equipped with a pressing cylinder WA or breaking cylinder WE. The pressing cylinder equipped with several low shoulders on its perimeter fulfils the function of a regulation equipment, and maintains right layer of material over the filling screw, which doses material from the hopper into the pressing chamber of the briquetting press. The breaking cylinder serves for disintegration of the material above the dosing screw.

The supply can include complete equipment for the workplace for processing aluminium chips containing both oil and water emulsion. Ordering specification can contain requirements for connection to the existing plant, separation of undesirable objects, possibility of adding material from other workplaces, automation of operation, catching coolants including pumping.

Within the offering process we always perform a test by processing of a small amount of aluminium chips or a large amount of material free of charge, although with the help of the customer’s personnel. On the basis of the test it is possible to adapt the briquetting press. The customer can test the quality of the produced briquettes, above all as to the oil content in the briquette, which tends to be 4.5 to 10 percent by weight.

In continual chip processing the material can be directly transported by a collecting screw conveyor from the existing plant into the press hopper. Transport of metal chips can also be solved by conveyors, which are dumped by a lifting device into the press hopper. Always it depends on the customer’s expectations. The economy of the whole process of aluminium chip processing consists in two principal benefits – saving of raw material in the foundry and saving of cooling oil that otherwise leaves the plant with unprocessed chips. Installation of the briquetting presses enables recycling costly raw materials.

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Economic benefit and main advantages in the usage of briquetting presses

Raw material saving in the foundry
Saving of cooling oil that otherwise leaves the plant with unprocessed chips
Possible return on investment in months
High quality of briquettes, low residual moisture content
Profit from the sale of briquettes
Reduction of responsibility for possible contamination of the environment
Reduction of costs for the handling and storage of contaminated chips
Minimum demands on operators if a large-volume hopper is used
Optimization of investment costs thanks to the possibility to choice from a wide range of outputs

Big benefit of the briquetting presses is the possibility of recycling costly raw materials. Chips arising in aluminium machining are pressed in metal briquettes of a defined shape. Briquette melting produces more molten metal than melting of bulk chips. Furthermore, during the pressing the cooling oil, that used to leave the press together with unprocessed chips, is caught. The volume of waste is decreased eight times by briquetting, and so the transport and storage are cheaper.

Optional accessories

Chips vibrating sorter
Screw or chain conveyors of material
Collection tray for the cooling liquid pressed out, with a pump
Control system of the briquetting press for the control of conveyors on the basis of signals from the sensors of the material level in the hopper
Hydraulic oil for ambient temperatures below + 5 °C

Optional hoppers

Lagre-capacity hopper - suitable only for very loose and light materials

Hopper with four screws - suitable for longer chips, which are not loose, but can be easily unbundled

Technical parameters

Type	Ouput kg/hour +-10%	Hydraulic pump motor kW	Briquette diameter mm	Weight kg bez WA, WE
BrikStar CM 50-12	30 – 60	4	60
BrikStar CM 50-14-4SN	30 – 60	4	60	1 390
BrikStar CM 70-12	50 – 80	5,5	60	970
BrikStar CM 70-14-4SN	50 – 80	5,5	60	1 485
BrikStar CM 100-12	70 – 120	7,5	60	1 940
BrikStar CM 100-14-4SN	70 – 120	7,5	60
BrikStar CM 150-12	110 – 170	11	60
BrikStar CM 150-14-4SN	110 – 170	11	60
BrikStar CM 2×150	220 – 340	2.10.2011	60	2 850

Technical and operating conditions
Specific weight of the pressed briquette	1,500-2,200 kg/m³
Maximum operating pressure	180 bar (18 MPa)
Maximum operating temperature	60 °C
Machine working environment	+5 – +35 °C

General technical parameters
Supply voltage	400 V
Control voltage	24 V
Electrical element protection	IP54
Machine noise level	77 dB
Operating time of the press	3 shifts

Informative dimensions of presses

The presses with one pressing frame at one hopper

Hopper volume	Length	Width	Height	Hopper width C
-12 (1 m3)	1400	1540	1300	1200
-14-4 SN (1	3 m3)	1730	1980	1700	1380