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CUSTOMER JOURNAL · EDITION 2·2014 COM•PRESS 150 years AERZEN AERZEN breaks records 3 IFAT 2014 Successful exhibition 4 Safe solution Positive displacement blowers in vacuum cleaning systems Two Delta Hybrid machines alternately View of the water surface generate the compressed air for the of a moving bed reactor 5 moving bed reactor. basin From fresh water to Dear Readers, An exciting first half of the waste water year is behind us. In February, AERZEN supplies oil-free oxygen to Nordland Papier the groundbreaking for a new office and production build- ing took place in Shanghai in accordance with traditional Water is the elixir of life at every paper mill. At UPM Nordland Papier fering an ideal growth surface to micro- Chinese rules. In March, we organisms, which prefer packed beds. To gave the starting signal for the in Dörpen, Lower Saxony, AERZEN Delta Blowers and Delta Hybrids encourage the multiplication of these brand AERZEN and have con- contribute to the economical use and careful treatment of this pre- bacteria, oxygen, which is generated by Klaus-Hasso sequently given our customers Heller, Chief a promise to “Expect Perform- cious element. the two Delta Hybrid machines, each with Executive ance!“ Now we are measured a drive capacity of 250 kW, is fed into the Officer by our customers and must not he UPM Nordland Papier fine paper that time, the first positive displacement reservoir via vents. The two units, one of disappoint them. factory in Dörpen is the largest of its blowers were installed in the fresh water which covers the operational requirements, In May, we participated very successfully with kind in Europe, producing up to 1.4 sector. In 2009, two further Delta Blower and the other kept as redundancy, have our new Delta Hybrid D 152 S in the IFAT Fair in T million tons of uncoated and coated paper packaged units were supplied for waste been designed for a maximum pressure Munich, and then celebrated our 150th anniver- every year with four machines. The compa- water treatment in the sector of the aera- of 1,500 mbar. They are run depending on sary with an excellent party. Just like the motto ny is part of UPM Paper ENA (Europe and tion basins. Since 2012, two rotary lobe demand via the integrated AERZEN AER- “Expect Performance!“. North America), a worldwide leading man- compressors of the new Delta Hybrid series tronic control system and frequency con- Several weeks ago, we moved into the second ufacturer of graphic papers, with its head have been supplying oxygen for the new verter, and supply the reactor basins, which phase of construction of our new office building and can now concentrate fully on the completion office in Germany and production facilities moving bed reactor. have a height of 12 metres, with a constant of our logistics centre. The most significant task in Finland, the UK, France, Austria and the The “moving bed” comprises plastic bod- maximum pressure of 1,400 mbar. of recent decades, the introduction of SAP, has U.S.A. ies with a size of about five centimetres, In the subsequent second treat- almost been completed, with just a little fine- Accumulating waste water is treated in a floating freely in the waste water and of- ment stage, the activated sludge tuning now remaining. sewage plant, which first works mechani- As we now move with enthusiasm into the cally and then biologically with a maximum Frank Berlage, sewage plant manager second half of the year, many of us are now con- capacity of 650 m³/h and it is then fed into templating a particularly attractive prospect: the the River Ems as “fully purified water”. The packaged units were used for a field test. As they worked to our utmost vacation period. I wish you all a restful holiday and a wonderful summer. Double-stage biological waste water satisfaction, we purchased them. Thanks to their reliability, the current treatment factory-provided monitoring could be reduced to the usual servicing and main- Yours tenance by the manufacturer. Furthermore, the Delta Hybrids are particularly Since 1968, packaged units made by energy-efficient due to their economical use of electrical energy. AERZEN have been in operation here. At COM •PRESS 2|14 2 COMPACT New logistics concept stage, the waste water first of all air and neutral gases are conveyed up to cent compared with conventional compres- passes through a circular above- 1.5 bar. Initially, the series only comprised sors. The new AERZEN logistics centre is nearing com- ground aeration basin, which is supplied packaged units in the performance range “So it is not surprising that in spite of pletion. With the opening of the logistics centre, with oxygen by two speed-controlled from 600 to 5,900 m³/h. With further de- nationwide requests for quotations for new the trucks will follow a new route on the premis- AERZEN Delta Blowers operated in parallel. velopment work, AERZEN has increased investments in the field of compressed air es. The position of the entrance for trucks which In the following three aeration basins, sur- the performance range to a maximum generation in our sewage plant, we have deliver goods will be relocated from the entrance face aerators are used at the water surface. 9,000 m³/h. These new machines are not again and again decided on the packaged at the federal highway B1 to a new entrance at Afterwards, the waste water passes through only easy to use and to maintain, are ro- units made by AERZEN”, says Dipl.-Ing. the street called Wiesenweg, including a new a degassing basin and four secondary set- bust and have a long service life, but they Hartmut Wagener, operating engineer in gatehouse. tling tanks working in parallel. Prior to being also reduce energy consumption by 15 per the field of public utility. The planning for a high-performance high-bay fed into the River Ems, an additional clear storage facility, with a picking zone in front, to be water filter retains the finest residual con- situated next to the logistics centre, has started taminants. Due to the multistage treatment in parallel with the final building measures. of the purified waste water a BOD decompo- With the new logistics concept AERZEN takes sition of 98 per cent is achieved. into account the permanent, worldwide growth of the company. Worldwide novelty The new Delta Hybrid packages have been designed for all application cases where The moving bed reactor, consisting of two basins with The new logistics centre is supplemented by a a height of 12 metres. high-bay storage in future. Subsidiary company Aerzen Hungária Kft. Questions, Suggestions, Ideas? Hungarian success story We are looking forward to all your queries, com- ments and suggestions on our customer journal As the representative for products made by AERZEN in Hungary, the former Ariadne Hafi Kft. started and we are at your disposal for further informa- up operations in 1994 with six employees. Since then not only the team of the present subsidiary com- tion on Aerzen products and services. Give us a visit on our website: pany Aerzen Hungária has grown, but with regard to the customers’ requirements in particular the scope of performances. WWW.www.aerzen.com/news riadne Hafi Kft. manufactured the For a Russian customer Aerzen Hungária first gas and refrigeration compres- recently supplied three VMY 536H flare gas Asors 20 years ago in co-operation compressors, in which each one fire extin- with another Hungarian company. On 1st guishing system and an air-cooled oil coo- July 2001 AERZEN took over the com- ler are installed. With these compressors pany and changed its name into Aerzen the customer can feed the lost gas into a Hungária Kft., under the management of boiler instead of into the flare and can thus Certifications for András Legányi. Five years later, the com- reuse a large quantity of the gas. pany expanded its portfolio with After This success story will soon be continued Emmerthal Motivated and successful: the team of Aerzen Hungária Sales Service, to be able to support the under a new management: As of 1st July Emmerthaler Apparatebau, a subsidiary of customer better. 2014 managing director András Legányi, AERZEN, is pleased about receiving three new Soon, the next step followed: AERZEN and his wife Mónika Legányi, head of the certifications: the first of these came when, TÜV designed and produced independently gas engineering division at Aerzen Hungária, Nord granted certification for the integration of and refrigeration compressors in Hungary. will retire after 20 years and pass on the the working and health protection management “We call this new business unit within the company to Tamás Jakab and Rolf Heine- system BS OHSAS 18001 into the existing qual- company ‘Ariadne’ and supply refrigeration meyer. Working for the Process Gas Divi- ity management system DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 machines worldwide as well as gas com- sion at AERZEN, Rolf Heinemeyer will par- in October. Then, at the beginning of December, pressors to Eastern Europe”, explains man- ticularly support the field of process gas Emmerthaler Apparatebau received its China- aging director András Legányi. compressors. Manufacturer-License for a further four years, with no deviations found during the audit. In January 2014, the Joint-Review and the extension to the U2-stamp followed, necessary for ASME- U-stamp for pressure vessels in higher pressure stages (>200 bar). Emmerthaler Apparatebau was also duly certified in this case. With these three VMY 536H flare gas compressors the Russian customer can feed the lost gas into a boiler instead of into the flare and can thus reuse it.