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NON-CONTACT LEVEL & FOAM CONTROL
CANTY Camera & Light Vision Systems are a patented design to view and illuminate the inside of a pressure or process vessel through a single connection. There is no need for multiple ports! CANTY can supply an integrally mounted camera and light (optional) in flanged, sanitary or NPT threaded process connections. CANTY fused glass technology provides a safe, high pressure, hermetic fused glass barrier between the process and the camera electronics.
The key to CANTY Camera & Light Vision Systems is the CANTY LED Light. CANTY uses fiber optic light guides to focus cool, effective light into a process or pressure vessel. Cool light eliminates product bake-on, adding no heat to the process. Fiber optic light guides deliver the maximum amount of light into the tank. The resulting live, remote image from a CANTY Camera & Light Vision System is unparalleled!
FOAM & LEVEL CONTROL
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CENTRIFUGE CAMERA CONTROL
A camera light combination system is mounted to the centrifuge using the CANTY angled mounting plate. This allows for continuous monitoring from the control room, of initial product filling, the various washing and spinning cycles, and product discharge, therefore enabling greater operator control and efficient identification of any process issues. In the control room, the Vector™ image processing computer will analyze this view and provide a 4-20mA or OPC output of fill level, filtering level, and a separate cake (solids) detection signal. The level control allows for consistent batching to the centrifuge. The cake detection 4-20mA or OPC output signal provides for immediate detection of solids, which prevent the cake from cracking. This means higher product yield due to fewer washes, and ultimately better product quality.
CENTRIFUGE CONTROL
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FILTER DRYER CONTROL SYSTEM
Features:
- Avoid cracked cake surface
- Optimize washing cycles
- Visual verification
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HYL 52 SANITARY LED LIGHTING SYSTEM
**New LED Lighting Systems** The HYL 52 LED lighting system is designed to illuminate bio reactors, fermentors and sanitary vessels. The HYL 52 light is a fused glass light which provides a high intensity, cold light source to allow the process to be viewed under a true white light (5000° K color temperature) while adding no heat to the process, which would cause product bake-on. The HYL 52 LED lighting package provides a compact, cost effective, maintenance free lighting system to meet all of your sanitary process needs. No more changing bulbs!
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PUREVIEW SANITARY SIGHT GLASS / LED LIGHTING SYSTEM
CANTY fiber optic lighting systems have been designed to provide efficient, high output LED light in a cost effective package. CANTY uses only high quality, fiber optic light pipes to guide the light from our light source through a sight glass or process connection. The light is elliptically focused into the fiber optic light pipe and guided through the sight glass minimizing losses while maximizing your tank or vessel lighting!
FILTER DRYER / NUTSCHE FILTER
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SPRAY DRYER CAMERA
CANTY Spray Dryer Monitoring Systems are vision based, industrial camera / light combinations used to view spray nozzle patterns in real time. This allows operators to see changes in the profile of the spray pattern, and detect clogging before it becomes a problem. Operators can easily view for product build-up before there is a chance for fire. This Vision System can be automated by the CANTY Vector™ Image Processor to measure the size and shape of the spray pattern profile. 4-2mA or OPC alarms can then be sent to the control system if nozzles clog or the spray pattern changes.
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PUREVIEW SANITARY SIGHT GLASS / LED LIGHTING SYSTEM
CANTY fiber optic lighting systems have been designed to provide efficient, high output LED light in a cost effective package. CANTY uses only high quality, fiber optic light pipes to guide the light from our light source through a sight glass or process connection. The light is elliptically focused into the fiber optic light pipe and guided through the sight glass minimizing losses while maximizing your tank or vessel lighting!
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Fuseview™ Sanitary Sight Glass
All CANTY sight glasses feature the Fuseview™ window. Our unique fused glass windows far exceed all conventional tempered glass windows in safety and performance. By fusing glass to metal, a high pressure, high safety, hermetic seal is formed. The fused glass Technology ensures safety with every Fuseview™. What’s more, our windows can easily be removed for cleaning. CANTY windows do not have to be discarded, as do traditional tempered glass windows. CANTY fused glass windows can be re-used again and again.
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SOLIDSIZER™ WITH COLOR ANALYSIS
10 um – 2,400 um Particle size analysis range. Finished sugar product is subjected to a series of quality control tests in order to determine if the sugar crystals are the correct size and shape, and also that the concentration of black specks / burned sugar crystals is within specification. CANTY’S range of image based particle analysis systems provide true size and shape characterization, with each particle measured under 13 size and shape parameters. CANTY’S imaging systems also offer the option of Black Speck detection within the sugar sample. The systems can be run at line through the use of a sweep sampler, or offline as laboratory instruments. This system provides direct correlation to traditional sieve analysis, but does so in a much shorter analysis time, with much less operator input required.
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LAB – SOLIDSIZER
The CANTY SolidSizer™ is a vision-based sensor used with the CANTY Vector System image processor for dry particle size measurement in a laboratory environment. The CantyVision™ Software accurately measures multiple aspects of the particles from area / perimeter / minor and major axis / etc. In comparison to a sieve which measures only minor axis the CantyVision™ software can correlate directly to a sieve so the customer does not have to change any QC documents. The SolidSizer™ can correlate within 2% of a sieve. A typical sieve analysis takes anywhere from 20-30 minutes including cleaning and setup for a 70-100 gram sample. On the SolidSizer™ that same sample takes less than 2 minutes. Also multiple screen distributions can be setup to accommodate multiple customers or areas in the process, hence eliminating the need for multiple runs on the same sand for different size distributions. After correlating to current methods of minor axis, customers find benefit in comparing minor axis to major axis and comparing shape factors. Reduce lab time and make sure production samples are not skipped over due to lack of sample time available!
Related ASTM Standards:
- D8200 – Standard Practice for Creating a Correlation to Compare Particle Size Distribution Results of Proppants by Dynamic Imaging Analysis and Sieves. (D18.26)
- D8392 – Standard Practice for Calibration and Verification of Direct Imaging Analyzers Used for Particle Size and Shape Analysis of Catalytic Materials (D32.02)
- E2589 – Terminology Relating to Non-Sieving Methods of Powder Characterization. (E29.02)
Related ISO Standards:
- 9276-6 Representation of results of particle size analysis – Part 6: Descriptive and quantitative representation of particle shape and morphology.
Canty participates in the referenced ASTM subcommittees (D18.26, D32.02 and E29.02) in order to develop useful standards for imaging analyzers. Although the referenced standards are often particular to a type of particle, they can be generalized for use with many types of particles.
ISO9276-6 is widely used to describe shape parameters and provide corresponding formulae for calculation of values.
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HYL 52 SANITARY LED LIGHTING SYSTEM
**New LED Lighting Systems** The HYL 52 LED lighting system is designed to illuminate bio reactors, fermentors and sanitary vessels. The HYL 52 light is a fused glass light which provides a high intensity, cold light source to allow the process to be viewed under a true white light (5000° K color temperature) while adding no heat to the process, which would cause product bake-on. The HYL 52 LED lighting package provides a compact, cost effective, maintenance free lighting system to meet all of your sanitary process needs. No more changing bulbs!
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INFLOW™ TURBIDITY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Turbidity analysis using a high resolution CCD/CMOS image sensor that detects turbidity changes in fluids by measuring the transmittance of light. Using advanced software algorithms the system automatically removes gas bubbles from the analysis resulting in highly accurate and repeatable data outputs. This system is designed for inline use with varying pressures, temperatures, and pipe diameters.
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PHARMAFLOW PARTICLE SIZING SYSTEM
The Canty PHARMAFLOW™ has been engineered to analyze small volume samples for particle size, shape and concentration. The PHARMAFLOW™ easily converts from a lab unit to allow for continuous sampling in-line using sanitary Tri-Clamp™ connections. It offers microscopic, non-destructive viewing and provides particle size analysis with two dimensional results when used in conjunction with the CantyVisionClient™ Software. The vision system, with integral lighting, features precision optics designed to enhance the image prior to display or analysis. The image sensor is a high resolution / high speed CCD camera coupled to a microscopic lens system. The system offers zoom and focus ability, variable lighting, and multiple objective lens packages to cover a range of sizes. The PHARMAFLOW™ features the FUSEVIEW™ window as the flush product contact barrier which ensures laminar flow & eliminates pockets for potential product build-up. Sizing down to 0.7 micron is possible with the high magnification optics and high intensity light source. A variety of pumps can be used in conjunction with the system, including syringe style injection as well as peristaltic pumps.
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LAB TRUFLOW PARTICLE SIZING SYSTEM
The TRUFLOW system is a versatile tool for research and analysis of fluid product. A wide range of options are available Including high pressure/temperature, multiple styles of illumination, several size ranges (starting at 0.7 micron) and Various environmental ratings for lab or process use (NEMA 4, Explosin/Flame proof).
SPRAY DRYER
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PHASE SPLIT – DECANTER CONTROL
Monitor phase split in batch mode on organic droplets for increased product recovery. As the droplets appear the system warns of organic phase and the upcoming emulsion. The amount of early droplets and their retraction time will indicate the completeness of the separation. Once the split is identified and stopped, the operator has a visual verification from the video monitor. The color can then be analyzed to ensure there is no inversion.
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INTERFACE CONTROL
Monitor phase split in batch mode on organic droplets for increased product recovery. As the droplets appear the system warns of organic phase and the upcoming emulsion. The amount of early droplets and their retraction time will indicate the completeness of the separation. Once the split is identified and stopped, the operator has a visual verification from the video monitor. The color can then be analyzed to ensure there is no inversion.
PHASE SPLIT / INTERFACE / REFLUX CONTROL
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INDUSTRIAL SOLIDSIZER™ PARTICLE ANALYSIS SYSTEM
50 um – 2,400 um Particle size analysis range. This system is designed for on-line use to determine particle size, shape and distribution, thereby eliminating the need for sieve analysis.
Related ASTM Standards:
• D8200 – Standard Practice for Creating a Correlation to Compare Particle Size Distribution Results of Proppants by Dynamic Imaging Analysis and Sieves. (D18.26)
• D8392 – Standard Practice for Calibration and Verification of Direct Imaging Analyzers Used for Particle Size and Shape Analysis of Catalytic Materials (D32.02)
• E2589 – Terminology Relating to Non-Sieving Methods of Powder Characterization. (E29.02)Related ISO Standards:
• 9276-6 Representation of results of particle size analysis – Part 6: Descriptive and quantitative representation of particle shape and morphology.Canty participates in the referenced ASTM subcommittees (D18.26, D32.02 and E29.02) in order to develop useful standards for imaging analyzers. Although the referenced standards are often particular to a type of particle, they can be generalized for use with many types of particles.
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LABPLUS SOLIDSIZER Particle Analysis System
The JM Canty LabPlus SolidSizer™ is a vision-based sensor used with the Canty Vector System image processor for dry particle size measurement in a laboratory environment.
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PROCESS CAMERAS
View and illuminate inside a pressure or process vessel through a single connection. Integrally mounted camera and lighting system (optional) in a connection as small as a 2” NPT.
EXTRUDER CONTROL
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CRYSTALLIZATION
Manual monitoring of a crystallization process is done through the use of the CANTY Fuseview™ and Fiber Optic Lighting System, providing the operator with light and sight on one vessel connection, saving space, and also ensuring optimum illumination of the area which the operator is viewing. Remote process monitoring is possible through the use of a microscopic camera system to allow the user to view the growth of the crystals. The CANTY range combines CANTY’s fused glass and lighting technologies to provide an unrivaled continuous view from initial nucleation, allowing for early problem detection (eg. secondary seeding) and reaction. CANTYVISION™ image analysis software allows for particle size and shape characterization during the initial stages of crystal growth (up to 5% concentration), while the remote view is continuous throughout the process.
CRYSTALLIZATION
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ADHESIVES & RESINS
Canty specializes in many applications for Adhesives & Resins. Some of these include lights / sight glasses, and particle size analysis systems.
ADHESIVES & RESINS
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PAINT & PIGMENT PARTICLE SIZING SYSTEM
Relevant ASTM standards:
Analysis per ASTM Test Method D8090 for Particle Size Distribution and Shape Analysis of Paints and Pigments Using Dynamic Imaging Methods.This unit covers the determination of particle size distribution and particle shape of paints and pigments by dynamic imaging methods. This method includes the reporting of particles 1 um in size and up to 300 um in size. Used by formulators and QC people in the dispersion of paint and pigments.
PAINTS & PIGMENTS
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EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE SIZING
A vessel mount system can be used for real time image capture during the production of polymer beads. The captured images are analysed by CantyVision™ software, to provide a complete bead size distribution through the complete process, allowing for greater control over final product size. Applications include pentane injection and end bead size. Also see Solid Particle Sizing for dry bead sizing.
EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE
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ETHYLENE FURNACE – ULTRATEMP
Ethylene is one of the most widely used base chemicals used in plastic and polymer production, with over 150 million tons to be produced in 2016. One of the first steps in it’s production is “cracking” light hydrocarbon gases (typically Ethane or Naptha). This takes place in a cracking furnace where the gas, mixed with steam, passes through the furnace tubes to heat to 750°-950°C, before rapid quenching (all takes place in a matter of milliseconds). The single greatest cause of component failure is overheating tubes, which can lead to tube rupture, and possible escape of the feed stock into the firebox area of the furnace, which not only is a process issue, but also a safety issue. The CANTY Ultratemp™ is a vision-based camera system used with the CANTY Vector System image processor to monitor temperature of the tubes inside an ethylene furnace. The CantyVision™ Software accurately measures temperature as well as bend in the tube for complete control. In comparison to thermocouples which are costly, not reliable, and monitor only one tube, a camera system can monitor multiple tubes at the same time. The CantyVision™ software can output a signal to alarm if the tube has increased in temperature over a certain time to an operator screen, PLC, or DCS for closed loop control. The steam can then be introduced to clean the tube and avoid plugging and then switch back to the natural gas. The pyrometer is not effective for controlling the temperature in the furnace due to the time intervals in between analysis is taken. Also, not everyone measures at the same point and this could lead to a change in temperature when a change never occurred. To calibrate the system the pyrometer can be used initially. If the temperature in the tubes increase over 10°C over 10 min, a plug has a chance to take place. With the Ultratemp™ this event can be avoided completely.
ETHYLENE FURNACE
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FLARE CAMERA – ULTRATEMP
The CANTY UltraTemp™ is a vision-based camera system used with the CantyVision™ to monitor the flares inside an enclosed ground flare unit. The CantyVision™ software accurately measures smoking conditions as well as pilot in the flare for complete control. In comparison to thermocouples which are costly, not reliable, and monitor only one tube, a camera system can monitor multiple tubes at the same time. The CantyVision™ software can output a signal to alarm if the flare has a smoking condition over a certain time to an operator screen, PLC, or DCS for closed loop control. The system can then record video and take images according to EPA regulations. Video and images can be stored. By mounting into the ground flare wall the electronics are protected by the fused glass from the temperatures of upset conditions. The spray ring is provided to have clean instrument air passing through it to keep the lens clean and free from debris. No need for a pole where any maintenance can become a problem and very costly. By mounting in the wall, the flare camera can be accessed from the safe side of the flare wall.
A flare is used to dispose of flammable material by combustion. Ground flares can be a replacement for a single stack flare for companies. The multi-point ground flares (MPGF) need to be monitored by a camera per EPA regulations. A video camera that is capable of continuously recording (i.e., at least one frame every 15 secs with time and date stamps) images of the flare flame.