Wave Grate for the

SF™ Cross-Bar® cooler

Reduce power consumption
and maintenance costs

WE DISCOVER POTENTIAL
 Designed to reduce
costs and save time
Operate and maintain your SF™ Cross-Bar® cooler more efficiently by switching to the
Wave Grate. Compared with the original grates, the Wave Grate is easy to clean and maintain, has an
increased wear lifetime, and reduces power consumption. Once installed, you only ever
need to replace the upper grate, which is fast and straightforward.

Bolts

Upper Wave Grate

Wear strips

Lower Wave Grate

Mechanical Flow Regulator (MFR) Tower

Key benefits
■ ■ ■ ■
Reduce power Easy to clean Increase grate Fast and simple
consumption and maintain wear lifetime installation
Reduce power consumption To change the upper Wave Grate, you access the bolts from above
The Wave Grate helps you to operate the SF™ Cross-Bar® cooler the cooler grate line. This is an advantage compared to the older
more efficiently. By replacing the older type grates with the Wave grate design, where you have to access both the top and bottom
Grate, you can reduce the power consumption of the cooler fans. of the grate line. This significantly reduces your costs as well as
The design of the Wave Grate reduces airflow resistance through maintenance time.
the grate, which results in a significant reduction in pressure drop.
Original grate Wave Grate
Industrial test results show approximately an 8% reduction in
total pressure drop, providing up to 0.5 kWh/t reduced power Pressure drop 770 - 1000 Pa* 330 - 430 Pa*
consumption of cooler fans when modifying all of the SF™ Cross-
Bar® cooler grates. Expected wear lifetime 3-5 years > 5 years

Increase heat recuperation efficiency Two-piece

Single
Many plants are stretching the cooler above its designed capacity. Design design for easy
piece grate
As an alternative option to saving power, plants could use the maintenance
reduced pressure drop to increase the cooling airflow in a heavily Entire grate/
Wear replacement part Only upper part
loaded cooler, with the potential to increase the heat recuperation side wear strip
efficiency and reduce clinker exit temperature.
Maintenance Time consuming Easy and simple
Save maintenance costs and time
*Air flux 70-80 (kg/m²/min)
The two-piece grate design means that the upper part of the grate
can be removed, making it easy to clean inside the grate if needed.
The upper Wave Grate with wear strips is the only wear part that Fast return on investment
needs replacement and has an expected lifetime of more than Wave Grates, in comparison to the original grate design, typically
five years. result in a return on investment in less than one year.

2500

Original grate

2000
Preassure drop (Pa)

1500

1000

Wave Grate
500

0
30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110

Air flux (kg/m2/min)

Based on industrial tests, in the typical operating air flux range of 70–80 kg/m²/min, the pressure drop
across the grates is reduced by ~ 60%, and the total pressure drop of the fan is reduced by ~ 8%.
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