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Efficient Waste Management with Lidar Technology

The Scottish waste management and recycling company, Levenseat Renewable Energy, now has real-time access to material inventory figures and, as a result, efficiently manages its logistics and processing operations after implementing a Lidar-based solution for inventory tracking. read more

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Automatic Monitoring of Mobile Harbour Equipment ensures Reliability and Safety

The increasing globalisation of the world economy is pressurising ports, docks and harbours into handling ever-increasing volumes of cargo, so mobile harbour equipment has to work efficiently and reliably at all times. Tony Ingham of Sensor Technology Ltd explains how monitoring the work rate of cra…read more

Case Study

Using Level Sensors For Inventory Control

Level measurement is one of the most common parameters measured in process industries. Level sensors use various technologies to measure the level of solids in a silo or bins. The amount of material on hand is calculated using data such as the size of the storage vessel, the distance to the mat…read more

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Case Study

State of the Art Hazard Monitoring for State of the Art Flour Mill

A large, state of the art flour mill was built in the Midwest to increase the company’s milling capacity and meet the growing needs of their customers. The new facility set the goal to have fully automated material handling equipment utilizing high tech Industrial Ethernet infrastructure throughou…read more

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Moisture Measurement & Control yields immediate Results: Consistent Product Quality from Lab to Line

What is worse than wasted effort? Economical losses and decreased productivity. Moisture measurement is a crucial aspect in manufacturing from the initial process to the end-product stage. Product quality and consistency are forefront with MoistTech in the development of the IR3000 sensor to accurat…read more

Case Study

New BHS Concrete Mixer for Grand Paris Express

Unibéton, a French subsidiary of the HeidelbergCement Group, is producing specific ready-mix concrete for the “Grand Paris Express” project. To optimize the production process, the company replaced a planetary mixer with a twin-shaft mixer from BHS-Sonthofen. For the first time in France, the m…read more

Case Study

BHS-Sonthofen: New BHS Concrete Mixer for Grand Paris Express

Unibéton, a French subsidiary of the HeidelbergCement Group, is producing specific ready-mix concrete for the “Grand Paris Express” project. To optimize the production process, the company replaced a planetary mixer with a twin-shaft mixer from BHS-Sonthofen. For the first time in France, the m…read more

White Paper

How to select a Continuous Level Sensor

Using a continuous level sensor to monitor the material level in your storage vessels can help your operation maintain efficiency – preventing costly process interruptions and keeping you up-to-date on your inventory level. This whitepaper is intended to help operations choose a continuous level s…read more

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3D Level Sensors can solve the toughest Food Storage Challenges

For almost a decade, 3DLevelScanners have been providing highly accurate level and volume measurement in challenging materials contained in bins, tanks, and silos. Measuring and mapping the material surface, these sensor sends pulses in a 70° beam angle, taking multiple level measurements and accou…read more

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Choosing the Point Level Sensor for Your Application

Point level indicators are an affordable, accurate tool to measure and alert to inventory high and low levels. Easy to set up and configurable to fit a wide range of application needs, point level indicators are a must-have for a safe, efficient operation. This whitepaper details what users can expe…read more

Case Study

SWR engineering: Moisture Measurement in Wood Pellet Production to ensure Material Quality

A manufacturer of wood pellets processes raw materials such as planing chips or wood chips (wood waste) to produce wood pellets. To ensure optimal adjustment of the drying process, the company uses SWR engineering's M-Sens 2 moisture sensor. The moisture is measured while the material is transporte…read more

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BinMaster: Choosing the Point Level Sensor for Your Application

Inventory management is all about inventory and controlling its related costs. Your job is to figure out just how much material you have on hand and the right time to bring in more. But your inventory is most likely stored in a large, dark, and often dusty vessel. Short of x-ray vision, you have no …read more

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Belt Volume by Vision: Optical Measurement of Belt Conveyor Throughput

Belt scale accuracy is important to the efficiency and quality of processes dependent on mass flow. This article describes how non-contact, Ethernet camera technology can be used to produce an integrated volume measurement of product on a conveyor which can minimise maintenance and optimise accuracy…read more

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Technical Article

Solids Mass Flow Measurement in Pneumatic Pipelines by F.M. Transducer and Microcomputer

The paper outlines the basic design of the frequency modulated capacitance transducer which has been successfully used to measure mass flow rates of materials ranging from conducting metal particles to non-conducting solids with a wide range of permittivities. The sensing electrode used offers …read more

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Technical Article

Determination of Contents in Storage Bins and Silos

Modern process plant relies heavily on control systems for reliable and efficient operation. A control system generally consists of the storage bin* a sensor or transducer and electric signal conditioning circuitry. In most applications the transducer is the most vulnerable part of the control syste…read more

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White Paper

Level Controls in Solids Handling

The Bin-Dex system, continuous indication and level control equipment, a relatively new concept, is introduced. The basic philosophy leading to the original design is highlighted and actual operational constraints and equipment performance indicated. read more

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White Paper

Digital Weighing in Bulk Handling

A general introduction to weighing in bulk handling is given with particular reference to the various methods of weighing bulk materials during and after loading. Several case studies are outlined. read more

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Case Study

Getting the right Mixture – Weighfeeders combine Measurement Precision with Durability

To reduce maintenance work and increase weighing accuracy, a Danish manufacturer of cleaning products installed a new weighfeeder and weighing module. The result of this project convinced the company to replace all its weighfeeders with the new models. read more

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Case Study

Large Scale Fuel Storage Silos – Safe and Environmentally Friendly Storage of Coal, Coke or Wood Pellets

There is a growing number of reasons why companies that handle and store large quantities of bulk solids should care about environmental issues. Large scale storage silos offer a cost-efficient way to manage and minimise environmental impacts and can also be used for solid fuels such as coal, pet co…read more

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Research Paper

Flow and Pressure during Centric and Eccentric Discharge in Cylindrical Silos

This article presents an experimental investigation of the flow pattern and wall pressure due to centric and eccentric discharge. The experiment were performed on a metal silo prototype using corn as a granular material. The silo prototype used in the study was built of a metallic cylinder, which ca…read more

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Technical Article

Fossil Fuel Supply for India's Coal-fired Power Plants – Equipment for Unloading at Ports and Transportation to the Plant

In the current situation of the power sector in India, source of coal and therefore the selection of various handling systems play a very important role. The selection of the best available solution depends on a number of factors, including the quantity to be handled, size, type of the fuel, and the…read more

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Technical Article

A Comparison of Calculated and Measured Indentation Losses in Rubber Belt Covers

Energy loss due to indentation rolling resistance is a major factor in belt conveyor design. The determination of the indentation rolling resistance of a conveyor belt over the idler system depends on the properties of the rubber compound of the backing, the method of calculation of the resistance v…read more

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Technical Article

Bulk Handling at Mongolia's Sainshand Industrial Park – An Approach to Materials Handling for a very large Industrial Complex

A large, integrated industrial park being planned at Sainshand in the southern Gobi. Major primary transformation industries will be located there to supply the country’s basic needs, as well as earn export revenues. A central material handling and storage facility is being planned to serve all th…read more

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Technical Article

Advances in Explosion Protection Technology – Improvements and new Options offered by advanced Protection Solutions

Explosion protection techniques have been undergoing several refinements as a result of the implementation of legislative requirements and innovative product development. The extended use of explosion protection standards and demands from industry resulted in additional products with improved perfor…read more

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White Paper

Conveying & Loading - Dust free! Environmental Protection along the complete Transport Chain

Dust is one of the real big problems in bulk handling. It means loss of product, pollution of the environment, and trouble with the neighbours. Solutions for some of this problems are presented hereafter. read more

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