Kobold’s optimum gas burner monitoring for no product rejection

April 18, 2016  1114  1114   

This maintenance requires shutting down of production lines and dismantling them completely. All failures need to be fixed; broken or worn parts replaced; burners and valves refurbished and the production lines reassembled. It is only after such maintenance, that the production of rejected goods may restart. Each production phase of the renewed line must sync again; each burner must be reset at the right temperature and the entire production process must be adjusted to manufacture the best quality products. This requires not only precision but is vastly time consuming during trial and again leads to a lot of rejected goods. The time consumed and the wasted goods cost money, increase the product cost and results in competitive disadvantage in the market.

Kobold’s solution:

 

Production lines fitted with UTS type variable area flow meters, with one UTS built into each gas circuit for gas burner control. The retrofitting of machines without major modification even with 10-20 flow meters is easy due to the small footprint of UTS and its compact design. When the production line produces a perfect product, the displayed values of the instruments are recorded. Following the next shutdown of production lines and before starting the conveyor-belt, all burners are set up to recorded value with the help of UTS. It takes only a few seconds to set each burner. Manufacturers’ could start the continuous production in a short space of time, as the quality of first finished product is already perfect. The total investment is returned after only a few maintenance cycles.

The Kobold UTS flow meter works on the basis of the suspended float principle and is supplied with a M18 x 1.5 connection.  The inflow of the medium is via 4mm hole within this connection, whereas the outflow happens via six holes concentrically positioned around the inlet hole, unique to UTS.