Instrumentation, Testing and Electronic Automation


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Instrumentation and automated sensing/control are some of the most important new tools we have to fix the historic problems of gasification.   The topics below cover both raw instrumentation for testing purposes, as well as automation and and variable control for improved reactor performance.  The GEK kit comes with basic instrumentation for manual temperature, pressure and fuel moisture measurements.  More elaborate efforts can build on top of the open source gasifier control unit (or GCU) from ALL Power Labs.  A full 6 gas sensing rig is also on the horizon, but not available quite yet.

   

Tools and Techniques for GEK Instrumentation

 

The Critical Basics 

More Advanced Testing

 

Electronic Automation

 

Gasifier Control Unit

See here for features, schematics and code. 

 

Data logging:

Real-time GEK data to the web