Self-Validating High Level Indicator Saves $Thousands in Costs
Elburn,
IL – When your high level sensor fails, when do you find out? If you’re like most people you find out when you overfill your bin or silo. Then you have to deal with the aftermath, which means cleanup costs, lost product, contaminated product, damaged equipment, maintenance and your boss breathing down your neck to get the production back up and running. One user of high level sensors tells that he estimates the cost of overfilling a silo to be about $5,000.
Today a new class of high level sensor has emerged, sensors that are “self validating” and not just simply fail-safe on power failure. The SafePoint® is the leader in self-validating high level sensors and provides "True" fail-safe protection. We are pleased to announce the issuance of a patent by the United States Patent Office that covers the use of Hall-Effect sensors as an integral component to ensure reliability of the self-validating techniques contained within the SafePoint bin level indicator. The SafePoint is the only device to use this reliable and safe technique to allow the instrument to self-validate its function to ensure safe process operation. While other devices use optical sensors that can be fouled with dust and other contamination, the use of magnetic Hall-effect sensing technology ensures full-time reliable self-validation and operation. The cost to prevent spills due to unrecognized high level sensor failure? About $300 for ordinary locations. Why use anything else?
The SafePoint bin level indicator's self-validating and patented technology continuously monitors its internal functionality and indicates its safe state to the user of the device. If through damage, electrical/mechanical failure or component malfunction the sensor is unable to operate properly, an output is immediately initiated to indicate a failed condition. This sensor health status indication is in addition to the standard output function indicating the presence / absence of material in the vessel at the point desired to be monitored. Local indication of sensor health and material presence/absence is also provided in all ordinary location units.
SafePoint bin level indicators are the best choice for safely indicating the level of powder and other bulk solids in bins, silos and tanks. Unlike other brands and devices available, the SafePoint reliably protects the user against overfilling and surprise outages using patented Hall-effect sensors.
For more information refer to www.monitortech.com/product_p_fails.shtml or contact Ms. Emily Jones of Monitor Technologies 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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