The new wire cleaning series (WCS) comprises four basic systems to cover a wide range of applications. The systems are designed to clean, rinse, and dry continuous lengths of single-line wire- or band-shaped endless profiles from a couple of micrometres up to 30 millimetres OD. WCS lines can be installed either in-line with a wire drawing machine, in front of annealing operations or can be used as a stand-alone unit where the wire is wound on spools. The purifying plant consists of several modules placed in a row according to the procedure.
The core of GEO’s wire-cleaning system constitutes a high performance ultrasonic tube reactor, especially optimized for continuous industrial profile cleaning and unmatched in terms of its ultrasound and power density. Inside the tube, the cleaning fluid is exposed to a high-intensive ultrasonic field creating cavitation. The concentration across the entire tube cross-section and the distinctive focus zone inside the tube causes an intensive sonication which effectively removes soap, grease, oil, emulsions or particulate contaminants inline.
By default, the compact design includes cleaning and rinsing circuits with heated and insulated liquid tanks, bag filter systems and a touch screen-based user interface and fault display.