Assurance and Quality Control
The Background
A major north eastern pellet company is surrounded by the forestry industry. Its production facility manufactures wood pellets to be used for fuel.
The wood pellets are produced by grinding wood chips and sawdust, then they pass through a single pass, rotary drier. After exiting the drier, the wood pellets pass under MoistTech’s moisture sensor for quality control.
The Problem
Previously, the north eastern pellet company has used several other brands of moisture sensors. However, the lamps kept wearing out. This was problematic since the lamp was an indicator of moisture level. Without a lamp they could trust, their moisture sensor gave a false sense of security.
Finally, the wood pellet company turned to MoistTech for non-drift, non-calibration, NIR moisture sensors.
The Solution
The north eastern pellet company bought the IR3000 moisture sensor and installed it under a small roof along the wood pellet production line. The sensor is connected to automatically control the drier system in real time, to keep production running and moisture levels in line with industry standards.
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