Level Measurement of Cement and Flyash
Made Simple
Elburn, IL -- Monitoring your inventory
of cement and flyash is critical to your concrete batch
plant or to any concrete producing facility, including
pre-cast facilities. You need to make certain
that you operation can run virtually continuous and
not run out of these key high value ingredients. Until
now you have only been able to monitor the presence
and absence of material at high or low points or take
inventory readings periodically. Monitor Technologies
is please to announce the success of it's Flexar(TM)
guided wave radar continuous level measurement system
in measuring both cement and flyash in silos ranging
up to 100 feet in height.
Unlike all other continuous level measurement technologies, guided wave radar
is unaffected by dusty environments such as what occurs during the filling of
silos with cement and flyash. This means that reliable and accurate readings
are available at your fingertips every second. The Flexar guided wave radar
unit uses TDR (time domain reflectometry) technology to make accurate measurements. With
TDR microwave pulses are guided to the material surface along a continuous stainless
steel cable of 0.31" (8mm) diameter. The microwave pulses reflect
off the material surface and the time of flight results in the distance measurement
of empty space. The unit calculate the material level based on you silo
height information and transmits this data either through smart RS485 communications
for use with our SiloTrack inventory management system, or via a 4-20mA output
signal to a remote receiving device such as a control system or digital display
meter.
Monitor's experience of nearly five decades dealing with cement, flyash and other
materials for the concrete producing industries allow us to apply various technologies
to provide high value solutions that are accurate and reliable. The Flexar
guided wave radar technology is the best and most reliable solution for cement
and flyash level measurement available today. Give us a call and ask about
how we can create success for your operation.
Monitor Technologies LLC is a leading supplier of level, flow, particle emission
and aeration instrumentation for the worldwide powder and bulk solids market.
The experience and market knowledge gained over five decades has earned Monitor
a reputation for providing high quality and reliable product solutions. Monitor
is located in Elburn Illinois, give us a call today and let us put our creative
solutions to work for you!
For more information refer to www.flexar.info and www.monitortech.com or
contact Ms. Emily Jones at 1-800-766-6486 (630-365-9403).
Why Use Solids Flow Monitors?
Assist in detecting problems & increasing automation
From complex automated systems with pneumatic lines
to straight-forward gravity chutes, solids flow monitors can help
to improve process performance. They are effective in detecting flow
problems, as well as enhancing the level of automation at a facility.
Solids flow monitors can assist in detecting problems in flow caused
by equipment failures, plugged lines, leaks, material bridges upstream,
low or no material, etc. They can also be used to add automation
to a process like opening or closing valves, turning a conveyor on
or off, and initiating a process function (spraying of a product
additive).
The Model SFI and SFD-2 line of solids flow detectors from Monitor
Technologies, LLC provide analog or relay outputs to indicate the
flow / no-flow condition of powder and bulk solids materials in chutes
and pneumatic conveying lines. Using microwave Doppler radar technology
these units are non-invasive and extremely reliable and rugged to
withstand the rigors of the installation and your process extremes.
Since there are no moving parts, these monitors can provide dependable,
low-maintenance service for many years.
Solids flow detectors like the Model SFI and SFD-2 can be used
in applications for a
variety of industries including construction materials (cement, sand,
gypsum, etc.), wood chips / sawdust, feed mills & grain processing,
consumer foods (cereal, coffee, sugar, cocoa, powdered milk, barley),
plastics, chemicals & pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and more.
One customer uses the analog signal from a Model SFI unit to monitor
the flow of carbon black in toner cartridge manufacturing to ensure
positive flow before further processing and to detect no-flow and
possible plugged conditions. Another company uses the Model SFD-2
solids flow detector to monitor the flow of coal into the burner
of a coal-fired power plant to detect no-flow conditions and ensure
safety.
Whether a solids flow monitor is used to detect problems, increase
automation or both,
the end result is a substantial long term cost
savings through: eliminating product waste,
cutting “downtime”, reducing employee time spent on watching
the processes or cleaning up spills/messes, increasing product quality
(reducing defective product), and decreasing maintenance time / replacement
costs on other methods of flow detection.
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