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Field of application

Sprays and droplets

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Inline Spray Messtechnik Inline spray measurement technology Inline Process Solutions - IPS

Benefit from...

  • ... the opportunity to quantify sprays image-based and inline.
  • ... high-contrast and true-to-scale image acquisition – an essential requirement for high-performance image analysis.
  • ... precise imaging of particles of different sizes with excellent image quality.

Discover the potential of our patented hardware solution

Application examples of SPRAY

Application example 1

  • Gas streams from liquid-gas separators (sorption columns, scrubbers, distillation columns...) in continuous production.
  • Industry sectors: Chemical and food industry, petroleum processing
Problem - Solution - Your advantages
  • Problem
  • Entrained liquid droplets in the gas stream result in solvent loss, damages to downstream equipment (e.g., pumps), and low gas stream purity.
  • Downstream liquid separation may be necessary, which increases production costs.
  • No correlation between entrainment and process conditions is available.
  • Solution
  • A precisely timed detection of entrainment: droplet number, size/speed of droplets, amount of entrainment.
  • This enables the control of the entrainment with changing operating conditions.
  • Your advantages
  • Reduced solvent loss and thus lower raw material demand.
  • Protection of downstream equipment and thus reduced equipment failures or downtime.
  • Acquisition of mass and energy balance of the process.
  • Compliance with (legal) requirements for the purity of gas streams.
Problem - Solution - Your advantages
  • Problem
  • Entrained liquid droplets in the gas stream result in solvent loss, damages to downstream equipment (e.g., pumps), and low gas stream purity.
  • Downstream liquid separation may be necessary, which increases production costs.
  • No correlation between entrainment and process conditions is available.
  • Solution
  • A precisely timed detection of entrainment: droplet number, size/speed of droplets, amount of entrainment.
  • This enables the control of the entrainment with changing operating conditions.
  • Your advantages
  • Reduced solvent loss and thus lower raw material demand.
  • Protection of downstream equipment and thus reduced equipment failures or downtime.
  • Acquisition of mass and energy balance of the process.
  • Compliance with (legal) requirements for the purity of gas streams.

Application example 2

  • Development & investigation of column inlays in R&D labs/testing facilities (spray-like entrainment and draining behavior of lamella & wire-knitted separators, injectors & dispensers, trays & packings).
  • Goal: Reduction in plant size and pressure drop.
  • Industry sectors: Chemical industry, petroleum processing.
Problem - Solution - Your advantages
  • Problem
  • Design uncertainties due to unpredictable phase behavior for unknown component systems or known component systems in unknown plant dimensions.
  • Reduction of the design uncertainties only with cost-intensive or technically not feasible experiments.
  • Unnecessarily large safety margins increase material costs and operating costs due to increased pressure drop.
  • Increased safety margins to maintain conformity with the defined limits of TA-Luft (German clean air act).
  • Solution
  • Accurate feedback on spray-like entrainment and draining behavior of inlays.
  • Fast evaluation of inlays.
  • Your advantages
  • Goal-oriented and data-based optimization and development of new types of inlays.
  • Reduced manpower due to autonomous measurement.
  • Shorter time-to-market due to reduced number of defective produced inlays.
Problem - Solution - Your advantages
  • Problem
  • Design uncertainties due to unpredictable phase behavior for unknown component systems or known component systems in unknown plant dimensions.
  • Reduction of the design uncertainties only with cost-intensive or technically not feasible experiments.
  • Unnecessarily large safety margins increase material costs and operating costs due to increased pressure drop.
  • Increased safety margins to maintain conformity with the defined limits of TA-Luft (German clean air act).
  • Solution
  • Accurate feedback on spray-like entrainment and draining behavior of inlays.
  • Fast evaluation of inlays.
  • Your advantages
  • Goal-oriented and data-based optimization and development of new types of inlays.
  • Reduced manpower due to autonomous measurement.
  • Shorter time-to-market due to reduced number of defective produced inlays.

Specifications of the inline sensor technology

ARIMOS SPRAY

ARIMOS SPRAY

InstallationOne-sided as probe via standard apparatus access
Particle size range (µm)

micro: (9) 14 - 427 (1,088)

meso: (27) 42 - 853 (2,176)

AccuracyOn request (internally validated)
Temperature (°C)

0 to 121

Pressure (bar abs)

0.1 to 4.0

ATEX certificationOn request
Food certification according to EG1935/2004On request
MaterialStainless steel, Hastelloy version on request

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Benefit from the unique hardware and software combination

The smart sensor technology

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SPRAY

ANALYZE

ANALYZE

The excellent image data of SPRAY enables a performant and accurate analysis. With ANALYZE you get an accurate, reliable, and AI-based analysis software.

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The journey to the autonomous plant.

CONTROL

With the help of the parameters received from the image analysis requests for action can be defined. CONTROL regulates valves and other components of your plant and thus allows e.g. the exact adjustment of a drop size by regulating the rotation speed of your agitator.

SMART

SMART creates a correlation between the image material, further process information (e.g. yield, temperature, etc.) and the process quality. With this an up-to-date evaluation of the process condition, a process prediction as well as predictive maintenance is achieved.

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