TRAVELLING GRATE CONDITION MONITORING

• Main Authors: NAVEZ, David, STRÜBER, Georg, VAN DORPE, Pierre
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 26.07.2023
• Subjects: BLASTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; CONVEYING; DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES OF FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS,IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE OF KINDS OCCURRING IN MORE THAN ONE KINDOF FURNACE; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; FURNACES; FURNACES, KILNS, OVENS, OR RETORTS IN GENERAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HEATING; KILNS; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; OPEN SINTERING OR LIKE APPARATUS; OVENS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; REGULATING; RETORTS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

A system and method for monitoring the condition of a travelling grate machine including univocally identifying each pallet car; collecting a plurality of condition indicating parameters for the wheels, the grate bars, the car body and/or the side walls of the pellet car; attributing the collected condition indicating parameters to an individual pallet car; storing the collected condition indicating parameters for each pallet car in a database; evaluating the condition of the travelling grate machine; comparing the different condition indicating parameters collected by the different sensor means of each pallet car to reference parameters and/or to previously collected condition indicating parameters of that same pallet car; identifying the faults in each pallet car based on this comparison; classifying each pallet car according to its need of maintenance based on the severity of different identified faults; and determining the pallet car in most need of maintenance based on this classification.