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SensiNet® Eliminates Unscheduled Downtime in a Steel Plant

From Sensicast Systems, Inc.
 

 

There are few places more inhospitable to a sensor than a steel plant. Extreme temperatures and harsh chemical, metallurgical, and mechanical processes make any monitoring a challenge.

Yet process monitoring is critical to a steel plant's profitably. Tough competition in the world steel market holds prices down. Any unexpected maintenance shutdowns reflect directly on the bottom line.

At a point in steel making, electrical current often arcs to the sides of the furnace. This super heats the furnace wall, sometimes overloading its temperature control mechanism. If the cooling system is allowed to fail, the molten steel could burn through the walls of the furnace in a matter of minutes, allowing molten metal to pour out onto the shop floor, endangering workers' lives and millions in equipment. Then, needless to say, the plant would be down for a significant period of time.

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Consarc - An Inductotherm Group Company - Electroslag Remelting (ESR)
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Topics of Interest
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