Case study

Online moisture measurement of coal underneath a conveyor screw
Steel industry | M-Sens 2
Customer: Steel plant (Brazil)
Product: Coal
Material humidity: 2 %
Conveyor mechanism: Conveyor screw
Installation location: underneath the conveyor screw
What measuring process was used previously: in the lab with material samples
According to the client, the M-Sens system offers the following advantages over the formerly used methods:

  • Continuous humidity measurement
  • Simple retrofitting
  • More cost-effective than optical measuring procedures
Client benefits:

  • Quality control of the incineration process, the lower the material humidity, the better the heating value of the wood chips
  • Customer can determine from the humidity what quantity of wood chops need to be fed into the oven
  • Control of coal consumption