PSC MCT560
Industrial Online NIR Moisture & Coat Weight Sensor
The MCT560 features NIR technology, widely used and accepted in various industries for moisture and other online measurements. Several of the world’s largest manufacturing companies use MCT560 Online NIR sensors. The sensors help operators control moisture to within 0.1 per cent to meet product specs every time.
Industrial-Grade Continuous Online Moisture Monitoring Sensors
The NIR-7000 industrial-grade analysers are designed for direct integration into factory automation. Capturing measurements every four milliseconds, the NIR-7000 can automatically adjust your process to meet moisture measurement targets, reduce energy costs, and improve your bottom line.
Benefits
- High Accuracy: Measure the moisture of many product applications to within ± 0.1%.
- Ruggedised Design: The NIR-7000 sensors are contained within a powder-coated sheet metal IP65 housing and built for years of trouble-free operation.
- Simple Implementation: The NIR-7000 can be pre-calibrated based on our database of calibrations.
Features
As the next-generation analyser to the Sensortech NIR-6000, the NIR-7000 is accurate to within ± 0.1% moisture for many applications.
- Entry-level moisture analyser that provides reliable and accurate results.
- Improved serviceability, modular architecture, and user-friendly software make it a significant upgrade to its predecessor, the Sensortech NIR-6000.
- Collect real-time moisture measurements in-process.
- Pre-programmed algorithms and calibrations or custom-built to your specifications using NIR technology.
- Operates in temperatures from down to -4°F (-20°C) with heating option, and up to 185°F (85°C) with cooling option.
- Thermal-cooled detector included.
- Mounting options available to accommodate diverse process locations.
Applications – Continuous NIR Analysis for Industrial Manufacturers
The NIR-7000 can be delivered pre-calibrated for a wide range of products conveyed on a belt, through an auger, or via a sight glass window in a bin or chute. Common applications for the NIR-7000 series analysers include:
- Building products: Cement, brick, lime, panelboard products
- Chemicals: Plastic pellets, industrial organic chemical solids (powders)
- Lumber and wood: Sawdust, hog fuel, veneer, plywood, biomass, wood pellets
- Mining and minerals: Iron ore, coal, copper ore, lead and zinc ore, bauxite, boric acid, ceramic powder, clay, crumb rubber, fertilisers, fly ash, foundry sand, industrial sand, silica sand, frac sand, soda ash
- Paper products: Pulp, paper, paperboard, containers and boxes, converted paper products
- Textile mill products: Broad-woven fabric, non-woven fabric
How It Works – Ruggedized High-Performance Moisture Scanning
The NIR-7000 Series Analyzers are integrated into key areas of a production facility to continuously monitor incoming raw materials or process control on the production line. Each option is designed to integrate seamlessly onto belt, auger & screw conveyors, or bins & chutes to analyse moisture online.
The NIR-7000 scanning process is simple but reliable:
- A halogen bulb light source within the unit shines through a rotating wheel at 2000 RPM of different NIR filters that are specific to a measurement parameter.
- The light is reflected off the product and focused onto a cooled sulphide detector.
- The detector’s output is taken by the on-board “smart” circuit board, and it is compared to the internal reference beam. This is then converted into a per cent of moisture.
Installation
The NIR-7000 is easily installed into almost any manufacturing process where access to quantifiable moisture measurement data is an important variable to quality/process control. Common installation locations include:
- Belt conveyors
- Conveyor drop-off points
- Down chutes
- Drag conveyors
- Fluid-bed dryers
- Hoppers
- Screw conveyors
- Storage bins
Realise the full potential of your sensor with our essential accessories, designed to enhance and maintain the performance of your NIR-7000.
- Snorkel Sampler: Designed to measure free-falling powders/granules in chutes.
- IR Product Temperature Sensor: Enables simultaneous product temperature measurement.
- Air Cooling: Vortex cooler attached to the sensor for high-temperature applications.
- Cal Check Standard: Used to verify sensor stability over time and transfer calibrations between sensors.
- External Product Loss Sensor: Enables moisture measurements when product flow is discontinuous, or there are frequent lulls in the production stream