80 GHz Non-Contact Radar

Like Them in Liquids

Food for Humans and Animals

Food ingredients: Liquid ingredients take many forms such as sugars, extracts, and oils that can be translucent, opaque, or transparent.

Beverages: Makers of soft drinks, beer, liquor, energy drinks, or seltzers use water, juices, colorants, and additives in the production process.

Animal fat: This ingredient is used at feed mills for feedstuffs for livestock and in pet foods. It is also used in the production of soap, lubricants, and fatty acids.

Milk and dairy products: Raw milk storage, processing, and pasteurization tanks.

Fat and oil processing: Margarine and shortening production using animal fats and oilseed processing for corn, canola, sunflower, and other oils for human consumption.

Egg processing: Tanks storing water used for chilling, cleaning, pasteurizing, and liquid egg processing.

Liquid food processing: Sauces, chocolates, and condiments measured as raw ingredients and finished products in storage tanks.

Drinking or Purified Water

Spring water containment: Drinking water from springs is monitored to ensure sufficient supply.

Purified water tanks: Tanks that store purified water at facilities to ensure efficient plant operations and supply for periods of peak demand.

Industrial Uses

Process water: To ensure pressure pumps deliver a continuous supply of process water by monitoring the levels in storage tanks or open basins.

Bulk industrial containers: Measuring levels in IBCs, drums, or totes installing a sensor in the lid or opening or measuring through a plastic wall.

Industrial fluids: Hydraulic fluid, coolants, solvents, cleaners, lubricants, detergents, defoamers, degreasers, brighteners, cutting oils, metalworking fluids, rust and scale removers, and inhibitors.

Industrial manufacturing: Process and day tanks, cooling towers, RO storage, or waste sumps.

Wastewater: Bulk storage tanks, lift stations, open channels, or neutralization tanks.

Cement additives: Measure tanks containing accelerators, retarders, extenders, dispersants, and other characteristic control agents used to modify the properties of cement slurries.

Plasticizer tanks: Measure liquid resins like epoxies, polyurethanes, silicones, and polyester or other types of liquid resins.

Frac or silica sand: Monitoring fracture fluids, process water tanks, and flocculants used in dredge pump mining methods, sedimentation ponds, and wastewater used for processing and washing.

Water-cooled chillers: Ensure a continual water supply for industrial and batch water-cooled chillers by monitoring the level in holding tanks.

Oil & Fuels

Automotive oil and fluids: Monitoring levels of new and waste fluids such as oil, radiator, transmission, power steering, brake, and washer fluids, and air conditioning coolant.

Diesel storage: Bulk storage, transfer tanks, and on-site fuel storage.

Fuel tanks: Accurate measurement of fuels and oils to ensure an adequate supply is on hand for continuous operation.

Chemicals

Chemical processing: Monitor level in bulk storage tanks, industrial bulk containers (IBCs), or drums.

Chemical tanks: Measuring the level of tanks where water is being treated with chemicals or clarifiers to ensure tanks are filled at levels for optimum dosage.

Conditioning tanks: To ensure chemicals and precipitants are applied properly in optimal, low concentrations.

Glues and adhesives: Measuring animal-based or synthetic adhesives containing PVA, ethanol, acetone, and other substances.

Environmental

Sewer overflows: Level monitoring to prevent capacity overloads during heavy rain events. Ensure too much water will not enter the treatment processes.

Dam levels: Continuous measurement of the water levels at dams can be coupled with wireless data transmission for either drinking water supplies or flood control.

Flood control: Monitoring river levels at gauge stations is essential to detecting and alerting when water levels are reaching flood stage.

River level measurement: To measure levels of rivers used for drinking water or to detect flooding conditions caused by dam releases or inclement weather.

Open air applications: Utilize these sensors on ships or bridges to measure the distance to the water.

Water & Wastewater

Municipal water treatment: Monitoring levels in open channels, lagoons, canals, lift stations, sediment tanks, clarifiers, and chemical feeding tanks.

Pumping stations: Level measurement at the inlet shaft is used to control running of the pumps by alerting when they need to be turned on or off.

Elevated storage tanks: Level monitoring is important to be sure that water pressure and supply is adequate during peak demand periods.

Overflow basins: Sensors can provide overflow protection for sewage treatment plants during flooding or stormwater during heavy rainfall.

Flocculant storage tanks: Monitoring the level of coagulant and flocking agents used remove minerals and organic particulates from water.

Gravel bed filters: Ensuring a consistent level of water is fed into gravel filtration beds used to remove sediment matter.

Open channels: Monitoring flow rate in a stream, irrigation channel, or unpressurized sewage pipe.

Vacuum sewerage system: Used to measure wastewater tanks at pumping stations that use a vacuum system. Measures accurately in turbulence and foam.

Sludge receiving stations: To measure the level of sewage sludge pumped from trucks (used to pump septic systems) into receiving tanks to control the input of sludge at the plant.

Equalization basins: Measure levels to ensure consistent flow to downstream processes in wastewater treatment.

Chemical tanks: Measurement of tanks storing chemicals used in the water treatment process.