Monitoring dust collectors in animal-feed-plants automatically.
Safe and reasonable. Application
Producers of animal-feed must calculate prices with a sharp pencil.
Competition is tough and the production has to be organized very
efficiently. One of many routine tasks of the production team is the daily
manual control of the dust collectors / bag houses, to avoid a malfunction
which can result in environmental pollution and very unhappy neighbours.
Facts
Product: Grain dust
Location: Clean air pipelines in various diameters behind 4
dust collectors.
System-
Integration: DYNAguard GM with relay-output -> PLC / dust
collector control > safety shut down of fan
Solution
To improve the plant safety and to further enable the production-staff to
concentrate on the essentials, Getreide AG - one of Germany"s large
animal feed producers - has installed DYNAguard GM dust monitors
behind the existing dust collectors. Daily inspections are no longer
required. If a filter bag breaks or was installed improperly the fan is
automatically