Indian textile industry particularly in Tamil Nadu is facing power problems apart from their regular problem of cotton price hike, not getting right cotton and also fluctuating the labour charges.
Today in Coimbatore there is a meeting on the subject of minimum wages for textile workers by the labour department of the State Government headed by Joint Commissioner of Coimbatore.
They wish to highlight the problem of Textile Mill owners on usage of humidification system. Out of the maximum load consumed covering textile machinery, lighting and humidification plant power the humidification plant presently demands around 30 to 35% of power consumed by mills. The increased tariff by State Government further affects them on the charges that incur on power bill. So many mill owners do not show much inclination in running the supply plant and have recently gone in for using fog spray in the production hall.
The fog spray is nothing but running 10/12 mm copper tube inside the production hall which ejects the water molecules in fine particles. Positioned at 13’ht the fog gets mixed with dept hot air and thus offers humidity.
Installing high pressure spray nozzle in the production hall and injecting micro water particles at 14’ht which gets evoparated in air easily in spinning hall and installing only suitable exhaust system and running the supply system of nozzle using RO plant and high pressure pump which is normally with 3 to 4 HP pump power and so no need of supply fan motors to handle enormous supply air. Many Southern mills are switching over to the new thinking and are getting good benefit.
For running this system mills have to install suitable RO plant for freezing pure water with less salt content and one 3 to 5 HP high pressure pump and the spray nozzle with orifice dia of 0.001 mm.
Textile industry is now a days very cautious on power utility and in Tamil Nadu the power position will improve only after 2013. So mills have to adopt an easier way to humidify their production hall.
Thus mills need not spend high power for handling huge volume of supply air with supply fans and motors, use of 10 to 15 HP monoblock pump and installing supply ducting and insulating the same and also need not carry out civil construction for installing supply plant equipments which they hardly use for only 4 months / year.
Concentrating incorporation humidity in blow room and in preparatory hall and reduce the RH level to 50% in spinning helps client to save good power on plant.
Thus mills can go for fog system of supply distribution and install good exhaust plant which can offer a helping hand to them to save power and also get the benefit of their investment throughout year.
There are few players in Coimbatore and few more are coming up in the same line since they have already visualized huge market for their system. Presently consultancy is offered for exhaust and information to client to approach the fog supplier directly so that the plant requirement come handy to client.