Travelling grate drive is a custom built gear unit designed to control the conveyor handling the ash released from the boiler. The drive powers up the shaft that causes the step by step rotation of the travelling grate. This product finds major applications in all boiler related fields. This improves the overall ash handling capacity of the boiler.
The drive is made up of a pawl and ratchet mechanism that is beneficial to convert rotary motion into unidirectional or linear motion. The pawl and ratchet mechanism is custom designed to change the unidirectional motion of the ratched into an oscillatory motion, between the teeth of the ratchet. This enables the shaft to rotate in a step by step way to control the linear motion of the travelling grate. The raw material entering into the boiler is fed from the top and by the time it reaches the travelling grate, it is completely burnt and the energy is consumed by the boiler.