Gas Velocity Measurement For Process Air Volume Flow Control in Coating Equipment
Gas Velocity Measurement For Process Air Volume Flow Control in Coating Equipment
Gas Velocity Measurement For Process Air Volume Flow Control in Coating Equipment
process engineering for cover- materials with reaction fluids tions to be defined, which, in
ing, coating, impregnating or n Increasing particle volume turn, provides a high level of
texturing particles with a size by using suitable adhesives reproducibility with regard to
P P L I C AT I O N
> 0.4 mm. Main application together with powdered the operating procedures.
fields are food, pharmaceutical substances A coating system essentially
and chemical industry. comprises
Examples are n Feed and exhaust air
n Coating of tablets with a film Process system with blowers,
to protect them against light Because of the strong regula- filter and heater
and humidity, to contain un- tions in the food and phar- n Drum with sprayers,
pleasant odors or to allow maceutical industry precise pumps and hoses
their active ingredients to be recording of all measuring data n Control and monitoring
released into the body in a device
A
1000
Me a s u r i n g s o l u t i o n
A common device for volu- 500
metric flow measurement is
the vane anemometer.
An attractive alternative how-
0
ever is the FLOWSIC 104,
which has been tested in an 0 500 1000 1500 2000
coater installation at Glatt AG, FLOWSIC 104 (m /h) 3
Maschinen- & Apparatebau,
CH-4133 Pratteln 1.
FLOWSIC 104 was mounted in Fig. 2: Comparison results of FLOWSIC vs. Anemometer
the air supply pipe down-
stream the anemometer in flow
direction. A series of compari-
son measurements was per-
formed with the air supply flap
open. The flow was regulated
via the exhaust air ventilator.
The diagramm shows the very User benefits
high grade of coincidence of The benefits of using FLOWSIC n Representative values by
the measured values thus prov- for this application are based integral measurement along
ing the qualification of FLOWSIC on the properties of the ultra- one axis (Cross stack)
104 for this application. sonic measuring principle: n No backflush, no com
n No sensitive and movable pressed air needed;
parts in the gas flow extremely low maintenance
n High level of accuracy across requirements
the entire measuring range, n Remote parameter setting
even near the zero point. for FLOWSIC possible from
n Air purging keeps transducer the control station using the
clean with additional cooling evaluation unit
effect.
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