System 15

Land Based Blower

This system was to control a Land Based Blower, discharging a road tanker of sugar into a silo. Although a road tanker has it's own on-board blower, it is considerably noisier than a land-based blower. At this site there were houses in close proximity to the factory, so noise was a major issue.

PJC Systems designed, built, and commissioned the system.

A time later, deliveries changed from being in a road tanker to being in a container. The result was that there was a lot more leakage of air with a container, vastly increasing the transfer time. The solution to the problem was to run the blower faster, which wasn't possible as the system stood. An inverter was added so that the blower could be run at a higher speed. A selector switch was added on the front of the panel to be able to select either tanker or container.