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FEATURE

Khs Integrates Optimized Preferential Heating Module Into Innopet Blomax
Series V
create an identical user experience the user an additional level of
across virtually all of Conair’s up- control and provides energy-sav-
stream auxiliary equipment. It means ing and material overdry protec-
that our dryer customers now receive tion automatically, such as when
a control with that offers the same in- production must pause for a
teraction style, features, colors, lan- mold change.
guages, communication, and moni-  Self-adapting “smart” recipes –
toring capabilities whether you’re the DC-B control offers 20 stand-
processing 15 lbs/hr or 5,000 lbs/hr”, ard recipes and can store up to
says A.J. Zambanini, Conair Drying 3,000 production recipes overall.
Products Manager. These recipes not only take into
And, he adds, “The same control account the basic dry parameters
interface is already available in our of temperature and dew point
ith the introduction of the blending, conveying, and temperature but also include the loading crite-
WDC-B ‘Common Control’ control auxiliaries, so there’s much ria and alarm setpoints. As more
across dryers and drying equipment less training involved for an operator features such as VFD, level con-
with throughputs above 15 lb/hr, to understand and master the use of trol, and Drying Monitor are add-
Conair’s multi-year effort to imple- different auxiliary equipment. Our ed, these inputs are also captured
ment a common control across all of customers have told us that training in the recipe. This means the rec-
its HMI interfaced upstream auxiliary and retaining personnel are among ipes is truly “smart,” enabling the
equipment is complete. Now, cus- the biggest challenges they face. entire dryer setup to change with
tomers can equip any of the following These new Conair controls aim to the push of a button. This is a far
drying products with a control plat- make both of those tasks easier.” cry from the laminated recipe
form whose interface shares the same Since Conair announced plans to sheets of the past.
interactions and features as other adopt the common control platform The common control for dryers Is
Conair auxiliary equipment: in the dryers, the company has added available in two different versions.

 Mobile Carousel Plus™ dX Series three new features, which include: Dryers from 15 to 400 lb/hr, which
desiccant dryers  An automatic Airflow Monitor, would include the D Series dryers and
 Carousel Plus™ D Series Model which electronically measures the dX Series mobile dryers can use a
Dryers the total airflow quantity (cfm) Plus or a Premium version of the con-
 CR Series PET Crystallizers in all drying equipment, comple- trol. The Plus version is a 4-inch color
menting the automatic dewpoint touch-screen control. It is geared to
 ResinWorks™ and Multi-Hopper monitoring to ensure that the operators who like to keep things
Cart Central Drying Systems quality and quantity of drying air- simple by using push buttons, LCD
 Hot Air Dryers flow is correct. controllers and toggle switches. Start/
 GasTrac™ CGT Process Air  Setback on input-Normally, tem- stop, dew-point setting and tempera-
ture setting can all be accomplished
Heaters perature setback is automatically from the main screen with almost no
 HP Electric Heater Packs and triggered over a period of hours other capabilities visible. However,
HTC Hopper Temperature Con- by the elevated temperature real-text alarms and alerts can be ac-
trollers readings that occur when a pro- cessed on a secondary screen and still
cess slows or shuts down. The
“The introduction of the DC-B Com- new Setback on Input feature another page shows all of the current
mon Control across the Conair dry- allows the system to reduce to data and status in chart form.
ing product line represents a tremen- a standby temperature based on
dous, multi-year engineering effort to
machine downtime. This gives

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