The innovative SmartAsh technology combines with programmable logic controls (PLCs) to monitor ash flow and collection patterns and optimize hopper sequencing - avoiding high hoppers, improving baghouse performance and equipment utilization, and reducing operational costs. Benefits include:
- Reducing pressure drop caused by high hoppers
- Increased bag life
- Eliminating the need to maintain existing hopper level detectors or install new ones
- Identifying hopper and evacuation system component failures quickly
- Improving troubleshooting of the hopper evacuation system
- Increasing capacity of the fly ash evacuation system without expensive equipment upgrades
- Improving troubleshooting of the evacuation system without exposing personnel to unsafe exposure to hot fly ash
- Improving diagnostics of the baghouse using ash collection trends and patterns