Check out my article “Putting a HALT to Hazardous Hopper Maintenance” in the May 2018 edition of Power Magazine. This article describes a system for detecting dangerous plugging conditions inside ash hoppers. Ash hoppers are used in the power industry to collect hot ash from utility boilers. – Mark Yeager
Follow the link below for the on-line version.
https://www.powermag.com/putting-a-halt-to-hazardous-hopper-maintenance
For more information about a Halt System or our other Boiler Monitoring Systems contact Ryan Welker @ (844) 837-8797 x702
Worried about hazardous hopper plugging? Talk to the engineers behind ITM’s HALT system.
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