The system automatically controlling the flow of bulk material

The task of controlling the flow of bulk materials is very urgent during the automatisation of production processes, associated with the necessity of grinding, mixing, dissolving, drying, firing of various components. The use of various feeders in automatic control systems leads to great financial costs in the project stage and during operation. The alternative solution for controlling the consumption of bulk materials, is the usage of silo bin gate as control mechanism. Thus there is no need to measure the flow of bulk material. As a regulated coordinates was used indirect parameter – the value of the bin gate opening. The required value of the bin gate opening for providing current flow of bulk material is calculated using the known functional connection between them. To implement the automatic control system it is necessary to provide availability in actuating mechanism bin gate position sensor.