Advantages and limits of measurement at high temperature!
CEM – Contrôle Essais Mesures magazine – no. 81 November 2022
The approach is simple: 4 specialists contribute their expertise to discussions around 8 questions on the theme of high-temperature measurements.
Pyrocontrole, part of the Chauvin Arnoux Group, is a major player in the temperature measurement market. The company designs and manufactures temperature sensors and control solutions for harsh industrial environments. Their offering is commercialized in France and worldwide.
We hope you find it interesting!
RACE: a network, talents and innovations
Drawing on its historical expertise in designing temperature sensors for ATEX environments, Pyrocontrole, a Chauvin Arnoux Group company, has confirmed its active approach to promotion of its business by joining the RACE association.
RACE - Rhône-Alpes Cutting Edge – is an association based in Lyon (France) grouping cutting-edge companies of all sizes which are all well-established internationally, with a significant number of them leaders in their sectors. Based in the Rhône valley and specialized in the energy sector, this association's aim is to foster business development among its members in France an d abroad.
RACE enables Pyrocontrole to share contacts and pool resources on the target countries or to open up to new technologies and begin the energy transition.
Another of this association's goals is to create a place for high-quality dialogue and share digital good practices to speed up the transformation.
Meet our teams at the CIM international metrology congress from March 7th to 10th, 2023, in Lyon (France)
Visit us at Booth 2C91 - Hall 2.1 - in the Metrology Village
The CIM international metrology congress is an exhibition presenting practical solutions, advances in R&D and future prospects for measurement, analysis and testing.
Manumesure, your expert partner:
-Calibration & metrological verification
-Maintenance and management of measuring instrument fleets
-Regulatory environmental testing
-12 technical centers spread across the whole of France
At the heart of our products! Thyritop 600 in action
The international automotive group Stellantis has once again demonstrated its confidence in Pyrocontrole!
The international automotive group Stellantis has once again demonstrated its confidence in Pyrocontrole!
Indeed, our power controllers will help to optimize the operational and energy efficiency of the furnaces for manufacturing blanks out of spheroidal-graphite cast iron and aluminum alloy (parts of the power train and vehicle-road interface) intended for the machining or assembly units, as well as the tunnels for curing the paintwork on the vehicle bodies.
Alexandre Soukphouangkham, Control Product Manager, and Valentin Filser, Sales Engineer, recently handled the commissioning of Thyritop 600 in Europe’s largest automotive foundry, the Stellantis factory at Charleville-Mézières in the Ardennes (France).
Attached: photo in situ of Thyritop 600 power controllers mounted in an electrical cabinet. The Thyritop 600 models are tested with a Scopix oscilloscope provided by Metrix - Chauvin Arnoux and the Pyrotools software from Pyrocontrole.
Technical detail …
Products// Thyritop 600 3Ph and 2Ph power controllers rated 100 A, 150 A, 200 A and 400 A
Voltage// 400 V for the 100 A, 150 A and 200 A models, 690 V for the 400 A model
Loards// star-wired resistors without neutral
Conduction// star-wired resistors without neutral
Options // HB: partial and total load break detection + UIP: power control on UxI, U², I², U and I
Fieldbus // Profinet
Stellantis is the international automotive group resulting from the merger of PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2021. It commercializes a total of fourteen brands including Citroën, Peugeot, Fiat, Maserati, Lancia, Jeep, etc.
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Scopix produit Metrix - Chauvin Arnoux
People are talking about us! Chauvin Arnoux's partnership with Poitiers University prolonged for 4 years
"Labcoms": how Chauvin Arnoux was accepted at university
Chauvin Arnoux's partnership with Poitiers University prolonged for 4 years
Read the fascinating article in the French business newspaper Les Echos. Don't have a digital subscription to Les Echos?
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Build your network of MV/LV transformer stations over the long term!
To protect your MV/LV transformer stations which are strategically important for distributing energy to consumers, you have to take several objectives into account:
- Anticipate aging of the transformer and equipment
- Trace and secure the energy flows
- Optimize the equipment and new connections
This explanatory video presents the GridWatch solution from Chauvin Arnoux Energy which helps you optimize your energy distribution network to protect your investments and achieve savings.
We will be present at Middle East Energy
We look forward to seeing you from March 7th to 9th at booth H11E11!
Come and see us at our booth where Chauvin Arnoux Energy team members will be present to welcome you alongside Wanis Ammi, Rajesh Couppoussamy and our Lebanese subsidiary, led by Jean Farah.
This event highlights the growing tends shaping the new energy ecosystem today and tomorrow. We will be delighted to show you our latest advances in terms of products and energy solutions.
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Hydrogen, a new Eldorado for energy?
Hydrogen is a new competitive, renewable energy source which causes less pollution and offers interesting advantages because it can be stored and transported and which is really taking off in the transport and industrial markets.
Indeed, in certain activities, it may represent a competitive energy alternative, particularly in transport. For road transport, hydrogen offers multiple advantages. Stored in fuel-cell batteries which are much lighter than those used in electric trucks which limit the transportable payload, hydrogen offers a clear competitive advantage compared with electricity. In this context, developments are under way for air freight (by an alliance between Alstom and Engie), aviation (Airbus, Safran and GE are working with this energy source in the form of a gas compressed at high pressure or a liquid at– 253°C) and cargo ships.
However, some people have raised the alert against its use in configurations where electricity is a better solution, such as residential heating or private vehicles. It’s not a solution suitable for all situations!
In the United States, hydrogen production already amounts to ten million tonnes annually, the equivalent of about 10 % of the volumes worldwide. However, this mainly involves "gray" hydrogen derived from natural gas without capturing the CO2 emissions, so it does generate pollution. So is it gray, green or blue hydrogen? What’s the difference? Gray hydrogen is a source of pollution, while green hydrogen is derived from renewable energies and blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas with CO2 capture.
Aware of the stakes of this energy transition, the USA is investing 8 billion dollars in the creation of regional "green" hydrogen platforms for sectors which are difficult to decarbonize in heavy industries such as oil refining, steelmaking and production of ammoniac for fertilizers, which are the main consumers of “gray” hydrogen. Instead of just an energy source, hydrogen will probably the energy vector of the future, as long as its full life cycle is taken into account, from production to use.
Discover the hydrogen offering, very high temperature sensors and controllers from Pyrocontrole - Chauvin Arnoux Group.
The Rear-view Mirror - Statop
The Rear-view Mirror is a new series of articles designed to open up Pyrocontrole's archives. This first issue is dedicated to power controllers: how did we go from the Reguen to the Statop? Today, Statop is constantly updated, with a comprehensive new range giving it an essential role in the accuracy and rapidity of your processes!
1 // What is a temperature controller?
As its name indicates, a temperature controller is an instrument capable of controlling the temperature. It is usually coupled with a sensor which can measure the temperature of an environment. In this way, it can accurately compare the temperature of a part with the temperature required by the user.
The main goal of a temperature controller is to maintain the temperature required by the operator whatever the external variations.
Lastly, the controllers are linked to a command unit, such as a Statop power controller or a valve.
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2// From Reguen and Resan to Statop!
The story of temperature controllers at Pyrocontrole goes back a long way! Since the 1930s, Chauvin Arnoux has revolutionized the world of industry by producing and selling thermostats. After Pyrocontrole's takeover by the Chauvin Arnoux Group in 1997, the Statop range was developed on the basis of the initial technology.
Pyrocontrole now proposes a complete range of Statop temperature control units for controlling the temperature of your hydrogen processes, from -200 to 2300°C. The Statop is an essential element for mastering your temperature process. Temperature control helps to improve the accuracy and rapidity of the temperature overall. The control accuracy is less than 0.2% of the total range. The Statop models are equipped with an internal meter which calculates and indicates your energy consumption on the process in question, in kW and/or in euros. They can also be used to create customizable logical sequences to ensure comprehensive, flexible control of the machine.
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Already, in around 1500 BCE, humans were seeking control systems to quantify time. They came up with the Clepsydra (a water-powered instrument for defining the duration of an event).
In 1746, William Salmon described a ballcock float valve capable of maintaining the water level in domestic water tanks. This principle was further developed in 1765 by the Russian Ivan Polzunov to control the water level in the steam engine with which he equipped the air pumps at the silver mines in Barnaul.
This idea was improved on in 1788, in James Watt's centrifugal governor, intended to maintain the rotation speed of a steam machine at a required value, by modulating the admission of steam by means of centrifugal force (the balls swing out and reduce steam intake). With domestic electric heating, a thermostat commands the heating elements in contact or otherwise or by generating a PWM signal (for a modulating boiler, for example), by reference to the temperature required. Thermostats are often quoted as symbols of such control cybernetics.
3// Discover our offer STATOP 2023 !
Thyritop 700: watch the video!
“Hunting down carbon with the aim of saving the planet": the new adventures of Thyritop
Check out the video on the Thyritop 700 controller from Pyrocontrole, the essential instrument for controlling the currents, voltages and power of industrial electrical heating processes. Today, its new adventure begins: energy performance.
To reduce your energy bills and decarbonize our industry, we are delighted to present the brand new Thyritop 700 Series.
