Choosing the suitable equipment for Gypsum Powder level measuring

[ahmad1368]

Hi everybody,
What is your best recommendation for this application?

 

[itsmoked]

How about a lot more detail. Please describe the application.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[ahmad1368]

I want to for silo with height 15 meters.Guided Wave cable probe or non-contact radar?

 

[Parchie]

What measurement precision do you want? I have a silo as tall as yours but the level measurement is very simple. Here's how it works:
Motor-drive paddles, mounted at the silo wall, run at a very slow speed at different elevations in the silo (a meter apart, from each other). If the level where a paddle is at becomes filled with powder, the material impedes the paddle and the small, geared-motor driving the paddle stops turning, activates a switch (a torque switch). You'll know the level of stock because the indications from bottom to the actual level is up!

 

[itsmoked]

We used to use a load cell. We'd use a cable hung in the silo to the bottom. A pneumatic cylinder would pull up with enough force to lift the fully buried cable. Then it would relax. The part of the cable still buried would be completely supported by the material in the silo. That meant the rest of the cable hangs as dead weight. The load cell just weighs this "free" cable and does the weight per foot calculation and you have the depth of the material.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[Padlock01]

If its Silo Level measuring you are looking for perhaps the attached may help.

 

[crshears]

better forum fit would have been Storage Tank Engineering, or Materials Engineering Other Topics, or Mechanical Engineering Other Topics...just sayin'

CR

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