Measuring instrumentation

Complete measuring instrumentation for heavy duty at a lime plant

Quelle/Source: Endress+Hauser

Rheinkalk GmbH, Istein plant

Quelle/Source: Endress+Hauser

1 Thermocouples with protective sheathes made of Inconel, installed on the lime kiln built in 2012

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2 Combustion air pipe with pressure monitor and a Proline t-mass 65 thermal flowmeter

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3 Volumetric flow measurement of compressed air with an SIL-certified vortex-type Proline Prowirl

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4 Temperature sensor installed above the inspection port on the new lime kiln

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5 Measuring the temperature of the kiln's lining

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Summary: For years now, and increasingly so, product quality standards for the commodity lime and for an already wide diversity of lime-base products plus, above all, the environmental protection requirements to be met by lime production plants have been intensifying. For the production plants themselves, this necessitates continuous optimization of their processes and all the requisite auxiliary circuits, up to and including investments in new combustion technology. The data of interest must be acquired automatically, accurately and subject to close tolerances.

1 Measuring instrumentation for lime plants

Measuring instrumentation is required for the following aspects of lime production processes: level, flow, pressure, temperature and analysis. The required number of analyzing instruments varies from case to case. The basic requirements for safe, dependable plant operation apply to all measuring instruments: reliable physical principles of measurement, robust technology and easy-to-use field devices. The ambient conditions prevailing at your typical lime plant are very harsh: sun, wind, rain, dust, heat, cold and sometimes even vibrations constantly...

Stefan Zöbisch, Branchenmanager Grundstoffe,

Endress+Hauser Weil am Rhein

Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Zöbisch studierte Allgemeinen Maschinenbau in Saarbrücken. Von 1976 bis 2003 war er im Vertrieb als international agierender Anlagenbauer tätig mit nachfolgenden Schwerpunkten: Vertrieb und Projektierung von fördertechnischen Bandanlagen und Großgeräten der Schüttguttechnik; Leitung des Bauteilgeschäftes eines Unternehmens der Pneumatischen Fördertechnik. Seit 2004 ist Stefan Zöbisch als Branchenmanager Grundstoffe der Endress + Hauser Messtechnik GmbH + Co. KG in Weil am Rhein für die Kernbereiche der Rohstoffgewinnung, -verarbeitung und -veredelung mit vertriebsunterstützender Tätigkeit verantwortlich.