Archive December 2020

A leading supplier of building materials in South Africa was looking after a reliable continuous level measurement solution for his process hopper The application revolved along a train tippler that tips the contents of the train truck with coal into the hopper below which is then conveyed to the site. The measurement units have to meet the highly accurate demands and cope in the challenging environment. The mining sector in South Africa was once the primary driving force behind the history and development of Africa’s most advanced and richest economy. South African mining companies are key players in global industry and the country is the third largest coal exporter in the world. The plant operator has been producing cement, aggregates, lime, ready mix and fly ash since 1892 and now operates with 11 factories in South Africa, Botswana, DRC, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zimbabwe. With regard to the modernization of the facilities close to Cape town he was looking after innovative continuous level measurement equipment. Due to the nature of the application, the electromechanical lot system, which is very popular…

WXOMEGA REVISED BATCH MIXER FOR POWDER Components WITH EXTENDED Throughput AND AMOUNT OF Components After the WXOmega1 powder mixer was released in spring 2019, the system immediately became a "best seller". Indeed, requests for higher batch weights and throughputs have increased rapidly since last year. Same as the requests for more than 6 different ingredients per recipe. Process Control recognized and reacted - now batch volumes of up to 95 dm³ and throughputs of up to 1000 kg / h are available. The number of max. possible ingredients increased from 6 to 8. The new WXOmega batch blender is able to dose and homogenize the most divers powders, grids, flakes or granulates – all with the well-known Process Control accuracy. The dust-tight blender has a thoughtful, compact construction. All ingrediences-touching parts are made of 1.4301 stainless steel. The separately to connect powder feeders are equipped with special dosing augers and “bridge-breaking” systems. The weight hopper was revised with a new, integrated empty- and discharge support. The…

Precise media detection with two wire electronics and “Tip sensitivity” Tomatoes Capacitance level measurement in tomato paste production Measuring sensors working with the capacitive principle are the all-rounders among limit switches because they have the highest application performance in the basic version. They can be found in overfill protection as well as demand and empty indicators in process or storage vessels as well as in leakage monitoring and interface detection and can be used in all tank types and shapes, regardless of whether the vessels are metallic or non-metallic. Due to their high sensitivity, their compactness and the variety of booms, they are particularly suitable for the different process requirements of the nutrition industry. A well-known manufacturer of different foods within the Latin American markets implemented the capacitance level indicator Capanivo® from UWT GmbH for his tomato paste container at the Lima location. For full detection the CN 7000 series was applied, which has process connection made of stainless…