KREBS SmartCyclone

Roping monitor
Liner wear monitor
Control room interface

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Components

System Architecture

The KREBS SmartCyclone System

introduces electronic sensing and
communications to Krebs cyclone
separator products. By doing so,
it allows the cyclones to actively
particpate in plant control systems,
plant alarm control systems, and in
proactive maintenance planning.

ROPING DETECTOR
LINER WEAR SENSOR
CONTROL ROOM INTERFACE

New era, new engineering, and a

whole new performance standard
for separation technology.
The new SmartCyclone from
Krebs, leading the industry since
1952.

With a SmartCyclone equipped

plant, the cyclone sensors can
report the functional state of the
cyclone by sensing the viscosity/
velocity of the slurry flow from each
cyclone individually. The sensors can
report the status of the pipe and
cyclone wear liners, so that liner
purchasing and relining operations
can be planned with greater control
and more in advance. Finally, the
sensors can repot when a cyclone,
the SmartCyclone system itself, is
malfunctioning. Because multiple
sensors can be mounted on each
cyclone, the individual performance
characteristics of each unit can
be monitored and adjusted as
necessary in real-time.

You can chose to monitor:

locally at the cyclones

via the Krebs computer
on your control system via
OPC interface

The SmartCyclone consists of

hardware sensing and control
units, and an optional control
room PC running SmartCyclone
software. The unit status, as well
as the health of the components
and communications, is visible on
and LCD display at each cyclone.
The SmartCyclone software allows
this data to be logged, analyzed,
displayed in real-time in the control
room, or anywhere else on the
local area network, or worldwide
through a VPN. Those signals can be
retransmitted to plant DCS, expert
systems, or other outside servers.
The SmartCyclone control room
software is, at its core, OPC/
DA 2.0 compliant. It is able,
therefore to participate in industrystandard control networks, and
to communicate with other OPC
compliant systems in the exchange
of data and status information.

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ROPING DETECTOR
US Patent # 6,983,850 B2

LOCAL CONNECTION TO EACH CYCLONE WITH REMOTE SENSOR READINGS:

Roping sensor values

Current apex diameter
Days in service for apex

WEAR SENSOR

US Patent # 6,945,098 B2
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