Online moisture measurement of wood chips in the silo
Construction materials industry | M-Sens 2
Customer: Lime plant (Germany)
Product: Wood chips
Material humidity: 8 – 14 %
Conveyor mechanism: Discharge through screw and rotary conveyor
Installation location: underneath the silo (with integrated stirring device)
What measuring process was used previously: In the lab, using the weight change of the material and additionally with a hand measuring device
According to the client, the M-Sens system offers the following advantages over the formerly used methods:
- Continuous humidity measurement
- Simple commissioning (even by customer)
- 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
- Quality control in the manufacturing process