The University of Moa is developing an innovation to recover the mills’ hammers used in sugar mills. Included in the programs for import substitution and use of local resources
The invention, which is in the prototype manufacturing stage, proposes to modify the conventional process and consists of filling these damaged hammers with tons of imported welding rods. Rodney Martínez Rojas, a mechanical engineer and author of the project, told CNA.
This filling covers an area of 10 centimeters long by two meters wide. Which requires a great deal of time and material. With high transportation costs from abroad, the executive explained.
The innovative procedure includes the placement of toothed inserts in the parts, reusing the existing rollers already produced in the country and making recovery more feasible while reusing locally manufactured parts and pieces, he said.
He pointed out that a prototype is currently being manufactured to be installed in the Fernando de Dios power plant, located in the town of Tacajo in the municipality of Baguanos, in the province of Holguin. Which will allow measuring the sugar cane milling yield using these components.
In this process, he said, there is a productive chain between the Azcuba Company, the Mechanical Workshops of Manzanillo, the University of Moa and the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment also participates.
The university is also developing other prioritized programs that contribute to the change of the energy matrix, food sovereignty and the extension of renewable energy sources to branches such as agriculture and water supply.
With information from Cuban News Agency
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernández
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