Conveyor Belt Monitoring
Conveyor belts in sorting and production facilities offer ideal conditions for monitoring goods that have to be conveyed. The goods are packed loosely (low packing density) and are transported at a defined speed through a very narrow limited area. Temperature monitoring of conveyor belts comes into play if production steps that precede the conveyance process might lead to a critical thermal state that could cause a fire in the collector tank behind the conveyor belt. Typical examples of this include shredders that generate flying sparks or glowing metal parts when shredding stone or metal.
A stationary ARTUS ECO system can monitor the entire conveyor belt, because the monitoring takes place at a fixed location. Since the operational environment is heavily dust-laden, the camera housing is equipped with a purge air option. The system’s two relay outputs are used here, e.g., to respond on a multilevel approach. First, the overheated temperature activates a water-cooling system to cool down the goods being conveyed. In the case of extremely high temperatures, the belt is stopped in order to prevent a potential hot spot or fire source from spreading. Fire prevention measures can be precisely and quickly implemented on the stopped conveyor belt, without affecting large parts of the system. The stationary and fully automatic solution is installed on a PC at the control center and is connected to the ARTUS control cabinet via a network cable.
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