Wilkin's sweet new control system
The project included the addition of a seed-mixing tank – complete with variable speed-controlled agitator, air-operated diverter valve, discharge valve, dump valve and variable speed-controlled discharge pump.
It needed to be semi-automatic, with the route determined via the diverter valve position. This allowed the transfer pump to manually start and automatically stop at the set fill level.
The honey is stirred and the temperature monitored and cooled to a pre-set temperature, at which time the seed may be added and the stirring continued until the operator stops the sequence.
Gibbons built the control panel, at the heart of which was an Allen Bradley programmable logic controller and Pro-face human-machine interface.
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