It allows you to reuse a portion of your garnet, reduce your waste stream, and use less garnet overall. This system can recover 20 to 60 percent of the garnet being used and reduce operating costs up to 25 percent or more. Recovery rates are dependent on the type of material being cut, its thickness, cut quality being produced and type of garnet used. In order to make recovery economically viable, the FLOW system efficiently uses water and heat to aid in the garnet separation and drying process. For example, FLOW's garnet recovery system dewaters garnet before it is dried so energy is not wasted by boiling off water.
Less electricity is used as a result.
Additionally, since garnet is such an abrasive material, an emphasis has been made to keep moving parts to a minimum to ensure longevity of components that come in contact with garnet and to keep routine maintenance simple. The garnet recovery system is integrated in FLOW's Waterjet Machining Center, and is available as a standalone system for use with virtually any type of abrasive waterjet system.