Furnaces automation

Cost at scale Ceramic processing typically involves high tanperatures, which requires expensive furnaces. Automation, lay-up, SCTeen printing, tape casting, and laser machining have all been considered. 

Oxygen enrichment increases the oxygen content of the process gas after the boiler if the bed temperature is kept constant by the furnace automation system by increasing the concentrate feed. However, if the cooling of the furnace is simultaneously improved, then the oxygen enrichment does not increase the oxygen content of the process gas, see Figure 10. 

In addition, NDT plays an important part in industrial maintenance. During plant shutdowns for instance, many thousands of ultrasonic wall thickness measurements are taken on piping, vessels, furnace tubes etc. All these thickness readings have to go into extensive data bases, and this process is, thanks to modem computers and data loggers, ever more automated. 

Control Systems. Control systems are used to regulate the addition of Hquid waste feed, auxiHary fuel, and combustion air flows to the incinerator furnace. In addition, scmbber operation is automated to help ensure meeting emission limits. Flows are measured using differential pressure... 

On the other hand, when workers are seriously under-loaded, they might not be very alert to changing process conditions. Many of the problems of plant automation are common to other situations of task underload. To increase the level of activity in monitoring tasks, additional tasks can be assigned, such as calculating the consumption of fuels, the life of a catalyst, the efficiency of the furnace and so on. Meister (1979) provides a summary of research on team organization. 

Figure 3.1 shows a typical laboratory flow reactor for the study of catalytic kinetics. A gas chromatograph (GC, lower shelf) and a flow meter allow the complete analysis of samples of product gas (analysis time is typically several minutes), and the determination of the molar flow rate of various species out of the reactor (R) contained in a furnace. A mass spectrometer (MS, upper shelf) allows real-time analysis of the product gas sampled just below the catalyst charge and can follow rapid changes in rate. Automated versions of such reactor assemblies are commercially available. 

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Krambeck et al. [40] measured small quantities of particulate carbon in lake waters by an automated furnace combustion infrared procedure. The whole sequence of operations was controlled with the aid of an AIM65 desktop computer. The system was successfully operated for routine analysis of samples of lake water with particulate organic carbon values of 100-300ug L 1 carbon a single analysis takes 8min. The relative standard deviation was about 1%. 

This completely automated spectrum analysis procedure represents the final element in our effort to reduce to routine practice the quantitative analysis of similarly constituted gaseous samples by FTIR. It has seen wide and successful application within our laboratory, having been the principle analytic method for two extensive hydrocarbon species-specific auto exhaust catalyst efficiency studies, a comprehensive study of the gases emitted by passive-restraint air bag inflators, several controlled furnace atmosphere analyses, several stationary source stack emission checks and several health-related ambient atmosphere checks. 

To implement an easy and automated means for chemical vapour generation procedures (hydride generation for arsenic, selenium, etc., and cold vapour mercury), which allows for a reduction on the interferences caused by first-row transition metals (such as copper and nickel). FI methods may be readily coupled with almost all the atomic-based spectroscopic techniques (including graphite furnace atomisers). 

In flame spectroscopy, the residence time of analyte in the optical path is < 1 s as it rises through the flame. A graphite furnace confines the atomized sample in the optical path for several seconds, thereby affording higher sensitivity. Whereas 1—2 mL is the minimum volume of solution necessary for flame analysis, as little as 1 pL is adequate for a furnace. Precision is rarely better than 5-10% with manual sample injection, but automated injection improves reproducibility to —1%. 

In TA the mass loss versus increasing temperature of the sample is recorded. The basic instrumental requirements are simple a precision balance, a programmable furnace, and a recorder (Figure 1). Modem instruments, however, tend to be automated and include software for data reduction. In addition, provisions are made for surrounding the sample with an air, nitrogen, or an oxygen atmosphere. 

In a DSC experiment the difference in energy input to a sample and a reference material is measured while the sample and reference are subjected to a controlled temperature program. DSC requires two cells equipped with thermocouples in addition to a programmable furnace, recorder, and gas controller. Automation is even more extensive than in TA due to the more complicated nature of the instrumentation and calculations. 

The prototype facility on which Modesto was based uses manual tire feed.6 Modesto personnel felt it necessary to automate the tire feed system. The initial system, however, did not deliver a consistent feed of tires to the furnaces. The one weigh station, located near the tire pile, could not make allowances for the variability in size and type of tire entering the conveyor apparatus.6 Inconsistent power generation resulted. 

Other procedures include high-temperature tube furnace combustion methods for rapid determination of sulfur in coal and coke, using automated equipment. The instrumental analysis provides a reliable and rapid method for determining sulfur contents of coal or coke. By this method, total sulfur as sulfur dioxide is determined on a continuous basis. 

Ricci and coworkers have described a highly sensitive, automated technique for the determination of MMAA, DMAA, p-aminophenyl arsonate, arsenite and arsenate. This procedure is based on ion-chromatography on a Dionex column, with 0.0024 M NaHC03/0.0019 M NajCOj/O.OOl M Na2B407 eluent, when all the compounds except arsenite and dimethyl arsinite are separated effectively. For separation of the last two, a lower ionic strength eluent (0.005 M Na2B407) can be used in a separate analysis. The detection system utilizes a continuous arsine generation system followed by heated quartz furnace atomization and atomic absorption spectrometry. Detection limits of less than 10 ng/ml were obtained for each species. 

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