McPhy remotely installs a complete hydrogen line for the preparation of metallic components for the DIAX industrial group - Seite 2

The choice of the complete chain from the new Piel range for a zero-carbon hydrogen production process adapted to light industry

Based in Bosnia, DIAX selected the complete line of Piel by McPhy hydrogen and nitrogen generators to equip its sintering diamond tools line. This equipment supplies clean energy to the whole sintering process of powder sintering, which is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by heat or pressure without melting it to the point of liquefaction.

  

Piel product line equipping the DIAX production line: electrolyzer (hydrogen production), oxygen, water and nitrogen generators, auxiliaries (filters, dryer, purification unit)

By selecting the complete Piel equipment chain, the DIAX company chose to produce its hydrogen on site, in order to free itself from the expensive and polluting logistical constraints linked to the transport of pressurized hydrogen cylinders. Besides, Piel ensures industrials energy independence and increased control of their costs by an on-site, on-demand and tailor-made way of production.

With more than 3,000 installations worldwide, the new Piel product range, whose design was completely overhauled in 2019, perfectly meets the hydrogen production equipment needs of light industry, when hydrogen requirements are less than 10 Nm³/h and or for discontinuous production patterns. This type of equipment is usually chosen by goldsmith and jewelry companies or meteorological institutes to inflate sounding balloons for example. 

A commissioning phase executed remotely by McPhy teams as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic

Due to Covid-19 outbreak, Piel products commissioning and start-up phases were carried out entirely remotely. The operation, finalized at the end of April, was possible by digital supervision modules integrated into the McPhy equipment, which allow to collect "machine" data in real time, or to interact remotely with the equipment, for example to carry out preventive or curative maintenance operations. McPhy teams were thus able to quickly and remotely start up the chain of equipment and supervise the necessary maintenance despite the constraints imposed.