Advanced Energy's products and solutions on display at the booth include thyristor controllers for efficient power supply control and optical (infrared-based) temperature measurement instruments (pyrometers) that can be used to accurately capture temperature values in virtually any heating process in the industry.
In addition to the precise temperature measurement during the heating process as an important part of quality assurance, the fast acquisition in "real time" is also an effective tool to reduce the energy input into the workpiece to a necessary minimum by intelligent control.
In the past, fossil fuels such as gas, coal or oil were used for heating and melting processes in the steel, metal and glass processing industries. For reasons of environmental and climate protection, as well as to conserve precious resources, the industry is endeavoring to drastically reduce the use of these materials.
In addition to the environmentally harmful exhaust gases, such as C02 and sulfur, this form of energy input into the workpiece is also sluggish and in most cases results in an unnecessary amount of energy being expended to reach the required process temperature. Thus, the energy applied can only be used with a low degree of efficiency.
By using and controlling modern heating systems by means of thyristor power controllers as well as highly accurate pyrometers for exact process temperatures, Advanced Energy's solutions enable the required energy to be used in a more targeted and thus more economical way, so that production processes can be designed in a much more efficient and resource-saving way.
