Why balls are useful in surface treatment facilities?

No, these balls aren’t a way to spend free time, entertain colleagues, or start a company-wide football championship – they play a much more important role.?

The balls provide an effective solution for covering various industrial liquids, as the cover they create has numerous advantages.?

Covering liquids is always a challenge for factories.

The effective covering of chemical liquids is a problem in numerous industries. Just think of galvanizing plants, where traditional electrolytic technologies are used to cover various metal or plastic components with a corrosion-resistant metal layer. Similarly to all surface treatment technologies, this process can also be automated quite effectively, which, although it supports fast and efficient production, prevents a fixed, permanent cover layer from being placed over the tank containing the chemical liquid. A fixed, constructed “cover” would hinder the function of the automated machinery and the lifting in and out of the parts. That is why most factories leave their liquids uncovered. However, there is a solution...

The cover layer doesn’t have to be fix!

In practice, a permanent cover is indeed not a viable option in the case of most surface treatment technologies, as the parts have to be constantly immersed in and lifted out from the baths. That’s where industrial balls “roll” into the picture.?

The cover layer created with the use of balls represents a flexible system that requires no compromises as it does not get in the way of the technology being applied while offering all the advantages of using a cover.??

How do industrial balls “work”?

When a sufficient number of balls are placed on the surface of a liquid, they float on the surface to arrange themselves side by side and cover 91% of the surface. The ball layer isolates the liquid from the environment, significantly reducing their interaction.

But why do liquids have to be covered at all?

To minimize the contact between the liquid and its environment and thus their effects on each other.

What advantages does this provide in practice? For example, the evaporation of liquid can be prevented by simply pouring the balls on the water surface. An absence of evaporation decreases material losses; moreover, if the liquid is hazardous or poisonous, the release of hazardous gases and mists into the environment can also be reduced. As a result, there is no need to use a high performance exhaust system, which leads to energy and cost savings while also improving the safety of the work environment. Safety is also enhanced by the fact that the risk of splashing is practically reduced to zero with the use of industrial balls.?

Another important energy saving factor is the fact that the covering layer of balls also acts as an insulation layer, providing energy savings of up to 75% in the case of heated tanks and baths, meaning that beside current energy prices, the investment costs of the balls will be refunded within a few months.?

In summary, liquids left uncovered lead to significant additional costs for plants as well as numerous other problems.?

The covering layer of balls provides a lasting solution for covering liquids for years to come, without any major investments or maintenance!