Luftmeister is at home in numerous industries. Wherever air plays a role in terms of quality and efficiency, our precise flow and heat flux measurement solutions are the right choice.
This page highlights a few examples of industries that benefit from typical Luftmeister solutions.
Process air plays a central role in ceramic production. The air serves simultaneously as a heat transfer medium, a cooling agent, and a means of removing pollutants (flue gas).
Efficiency depends to a very large extent on supplying and extracting the appropriate volumes of air and thermal energy in each case. At the same time, reproducible heat flow management plays a key role in ensuring product quality. Luftmeister records all relevant parameters using robust and precise measurement solutions.
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Paper
Air also plays a crucial role in paper drying. The key is to maintain a balance between the mass flows of supply and exhaust air. At the same time, the highly humid exhaust air offers significant heat recovery potential that must be monitored and optimized. Last but not least, the waste heat from the exhaust air is playing an increasingly important role here as well. Contaminated air and highly asymmetrical flow profiles—Luftmeister is an expert in these challenging measurement solutions.
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SEMICONDUCTORS
Wafers, optics, and semiconductors require increasingly clean rooms—but at the same time generate aggressive exhaust air. Luftmeister has developed highly robust, corrosion-resistant measurement solutions that ensure the exhaust air is continuously monitored in all its forms—allowing it to be regulated to the required minimum level without waste. At the same time, Luftmeister provides measurement solutions for the costly treatment of supply air.
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WALLPAPER
During the drying process following wallpaper printing, the drying air becomes contaminated with aerosols, among other things. This exhaust air must generally be fed into a thermal afterburner. Luftmeister measurement solutions ensure that no explosive atmosphere develops and, at the same time, that air volumes are capped, resulting in significant savings in afterburner costs. At the same time, it is important to capture decentralized air heat and waste heat from the exhaust air and utilize it optimally.
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MALTING PLANT
High volumetric flows of hot air are required to dry germinating barley. Understanding and optimally controlling the heat flows of the process air ensures that both efficiency and product quality are optimal. It is not uncommon for gas burners to need replacement—in such cases, Luftmeister measures the continuous heat output so that the replacement heat generator and heat exchanger can be optimally designed. Alternatively, it measures bidirectionally the amounts of heat exchanged between adjacent kiln process air circuits. The following image illustrates these and other applications.
The following figure shows some examples.
