Know within minutes if your Gypsum has the exact amount of Moisture needed for processing
- Free and Bound Moisture:
Our link test combines moistures in one test sequence.
- Purity of Gypsum:
Our equipment identifies free/combined purity in mined and synthetic Gypsum.
- Emulsions
- Rehydration:
Our analyzers contain a weight gain feature for identifying solubles
- Ashing:
Our analyzers house a calculation for fiber content.
There are two different analyzers with specific features for the Gypsum Industry. Contact Doug to find out which is right for you.
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Over the lifetime of your instrument, we can provide:
- FREE Loaner Service
- FREE Application Development in our Full Service Lab
- 24/7 Emergency Customer Support
Intermountain Power Services Saved over $335,000.00 in 2 years by using Arizona Instrument's Moisture Analyzer, the MAX
® 2000XL!
Intermountain Power Service Corporation, which operates and maintains a coal fired power facility located 80 miles south of Salt
Lake City, UT in Delta, UT purchased a Computrac® MAX® 2000XL in 2006 to assist in the control of their Wet Limestone Flue Gas
Desulfurization Scrubbers. In order to minimize sulfur emissions, limestone slurry is used to bind the sulfur dioxide from the
flue gas into Calcium Sulfate (synthetic gypsum), that can be easily landfilled. The addition of an antifoam agent is required to
reduce the foaming caused by biological matter carried into the scrubber modules by the limestone slurry and makeup water. The
addition of the silicon based antifoaming agent in excessive amounts inhibits the oxidation reaction, resulting in a byproduct of
Calcium Sulfite. The Calcium Sulfite has a finer crystalline structure which scales piping and equipment, and is extremely
difficult to dewater and landfill. To offset this, IPSC added polymer to aid in settling and removal of the scrubber byproducts.
The use of the MAX® 2000XL has allowed IPSC to control the usage of defoamer, by providing a means to quantify how much is too much.
This in turn has decreased the amount of polymer being used. The statistics of actual dollars being saved is as follows:
In 2005, IPSC used $329,000.00 in defoamer, whereas in mid-2006, when the company began testing the MAX® 2000XL, the reduction in
chemical usage dropped to $252,000.00. In 2007, after a full year of using the MAX® 2000XL, the chemical usage dropped to
$88,000.00.
In addition to the MAX® 2000XL saving a significant amount of money on the front end, the company was also able to utilize the MAX ®
2000XL data to control waste solids and reduce polymer usage. The polymer expenses were $110,000.00 in 2005, $127,000.00 in 2006,
and $15,000.00 in 2007.
D. Bret Kent, PE
Intermountain Power Service Corporation
Jerry Hintze
Assistant Superintendent of Technical Services
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