Lumber Dip Tanks
- Good impregnation effect: the air and water inside the lumber dip tanks of Sawmill-World can be effectively eliminated through the vacuum environment, so that the impregnation can fully penetrate into all parts of the object.
- High production efficiency: lumber dip tanks of Sawmill-World can achieve automatic operation, can handle a large number of objects at the same time, shorten the time of impregnation treatment, improve production efficiency, suitable for large-scale industrial production.
- Strong process adaptability: According to different objects and impregnation requirements, flexible adjustment of vacuum, impregnation time, temperature and other process parameters to meet a variety of complex impregnation process needs.
- Easy operation: humanized control system, intuitive and friendly operation interface.
- High safety: equipped with perfect safety protection device.
What is Lumber Dip Tanks?
Wood dipping tank is a kind of professional equipment for impregnating wood, which you can use in the wood processing industry. The following is its detailed introduction:
Structural composition
Tank body: usually welded from steel plate, with good sealing and bearing capacity, can withstand the pressure and chemical corrosion during the impregnation process. The shape of the tank is generally cylindrical, with a head at both ends to ensure the strength and stability of the tank.
Sealing device: The use of rubber seals or metal seals, etc., to ensure that the tank will not leak during the pressure impregnation process, the common quick-opening sealing structure, convenient loading and unloading of wood.
Heating system: In order to improve the impregnation effect, some impregnation tanks are equipped with heating systems, such as steam heating, electric heating and so on. By heating, the wood fibers can expand, improve the permeability of the wood, and also speed up the diffusion of the impregnating agent.
Circulation system: including circulation pump, pipe and nozzle and other components, can make the impregnation in the tank continuous circulation, to ensure the uniform concentration of impregnation, improve the impregnation effect.
Control system: used to control the temperature, pressure, time and other parameters in the impregnation process, generally composed of sensors, controllers and actuators, which can realize automatic operation to ensure the stability and consistency of the impregnation process.
| Model | SH1500-6000 | SH1500-8000 | SH1500-10500 | SH1800-6000 | SH1800-8000 | SH1800-10500 |
| Diameter inside the tank | 1500mm | 1500mm | 1500mm | 1800mm | 1800mm | 1800mm |
| Length of the tank | 6000mm | 8000mm | 10500mm | 6000mm | 8000mm | 10500mm |
| Volume inside the tank | 10.5m³ | 14m³ | 18 m³ | 15m³ | 20m³ | 26.5m³ |
| Material of the Machine | Q345R Pressure vessel plate；Thickness of the machine 12MM； | |||||
| Design pressure | Positive pressure：1.7Mpa;Negative pressure：-0.085Mpa | |||||
| Vacuum system | Vacuum pump + vacuum cache tank + vacuum pipe | |||||
| Pressurization system | High pressure pump + pipeline + liquid inlet pipeline | |||||
| Liquid return system | Return pump + return pipe | |||||
| Control system | Electrical integrated control | |||||
| Safety system | Equipped with manual and electronic safety interlocking system + safety valve | |||||
| Agitator tank | Inner diameter 1.2 meters, height 1.8 meters, equipped with stirring motor and stirring claw. The volume of the mixing tank is 2M³。 | |||||
| Priming pump | Through the liquid injection pump, the mixed material is sent to the liquid medicine tank | |||||
Enhance anti-corrosion and pest control ability
The use of wood impregnation tank can evenly and deeply inject preservatives into the wood, so that the wood has good anti-corrosion and pest resistance, and greatly extend the service life of wood in harsh environments such as outdoor. For example, in some outdoor landscape buildings, wood treated with dip tanks can effectively resist rain, wet environments and insect erosion, reducing the risk of decay and damage.
Improve fire protection performance
Fire protection treatment through the impregnation tank can fully penetrate the fire agent into the wood fiber, so that the wood is difficult to burn when it encounters the fire source, or can effectively delay the burning speed, gain time for personnel evacuation and fire rescue, and improve the fire safety level of buildings and other places.
Improve physical and mechanical properties
The specific chemical agents or resins are impregnated into the wood through the impregnation tank, which can fill the space between the cells of the wood and enhance the physical and mechanical properties such as the density, hardness, strength and toughness of the wood, so that it can better meet the requirements of different engineering and use scenarios, such as for manufacturing high-strength furniture parts and building structural parts.
1500mm or 1800mm
10500 mm
1500mm