Customer: Main Street Ingredients.
Main Street Ingredients located in La Crosse, WI installed a new clean room to enclose an automated powder product packaging
line. The product to be packaged requires tight control of room air quality; pressure, temperature, and humidity.
Project Scope: The newly installed air handling and control equipment
performed to design specifications, but the process room pressure, humidity, and temperature could not be controlled sufficiently
and tended to wander in and out of tolerance.
Project Design: Industrial Automation made design changes to the OEM
installed Allen Bradley Compact Logix controller I/O. This was done to improve the analog resolution of process variables.
We then modified the "control loop" to clamp
down on the allowable process room environmental air characteristics. The returning room air first passes through
a large glycol cooling heat exchanger to remove excess humidity from the air. The cooled and dehumidified air then
passes through a steam powered design, a small change in room humidity will cause a large change in the heat demand
needed to offset the dehumidification caused cooling. Conventional PID algorithms were not able to handle the large process
variable upsets caused by the intermittent dehumidification cooling. The room temperature would often swing five or more
degrees in either direction of the room temperature set point. Industrial Automation designed and installed a custom "fuzzy logic"
control program that is able to compensate for the sudden and large heating demand requirement due to dehumidification cooling changes.
The completed control modifications have greatly improved the process room enviroment air characteristics. Room pressure typically is now
held within .02 in/H2O of set point, humidity within 2% of set point, and temperature within 1 degree F of set point.
Main Street Ingredients located in La Crosse, WI installed a new clean room to enclose an automated powder product packaging
line. The product to be packaged requires tight control of room air quality; pressure, temperature, and humidity.
performed to design specifications, but the process room pressure, humidity, and temperature could not be controlled sufficiently
and tended to wander in and out of tolerance.
needed to offset the dehumidification caused cooling. Conventional PID algorithms were not able to handle the large process
variable upsets caused by the intermittent dehumidification cooling. The room temperature would often swing five or more
degrees in either direction of the room temperature set point. Industrial Automation designed and installed a custom "fuzzy logic"
control program that is able to compensate for the sudden and large heating demand requirement due to dehumidification cooling changes.
