Online moisture measurement of coal underneath a conveyor screw
Steel industry | M-Sens 2
Customer: Steel plant (Brazil)
Product: Coal
Material humidity: 2 %
Conveyor mechanism: Conveyor screw
Installation location: underneath the conveyor screw
What measuring process was used previously: in the lab with material samples
According to the client, the M-Sens system offers the following advantages over the formerly used methods:
- Continuous humidity measurement
- Simple retrofitting
- More cost-effective than optical measuring procedures
Client benefits:
- Quality control of the incineration process, the lower the material humidity, the better the heating value of the wood chips
- Customer can determine from the humidity what quantity of wood chops need to be fed into the oven
- Control of coal consumption