Case History

Continuous dust pollution monitoring with triboelectric sensors and SCADA

Industrial plants that emit particulate matter into flue gas or process ducts are usually required to keep dust concentration below a strict limit, and proving it with periodic manual sampling alone leaves long blind spots between one check and the next. A continuous dust pollution monitoring system, built on the Winlog Evo SCADA/HMI platform and realized in cooperation with Tribotecna Srl, closes that gap: triboelectric sensors installed directly in the duct feed a network of acquisition modules that report to a supervisory server around the clock, so operators see a rising trend and can act on the plant well before the reading crosses the regulatory limit, instead of discovering an exceedance after the fact. The same architecture also gives plant managers a defensible, continuously logged record of emission performance, which is increasingly what environmental authorities and internal audits expect rather than a handful of spot checks per year.

SCADA for comparative testing of wood stoves: thermal mapping and environmental monitoring

Independent test laboratories and manufacturers who evaluate a wood-burning stove’s performance need more than a single thermometer near the appliance: they need to compare how different stoves heat the same room, under the same environmental conditions, in a way that produces objective, repeatable numbers rather than impressions. Comparative testing of wood stoves calls for a data acquisition system that can capture a full spatial and environmental picture of the test room, correlate it with combustion behaviour, and keep every reading on record for later analysis. Winlog Evo is a reference example of a SCADA/HMI platform built to support exactly this kind of instrumented test bench, whether the appliances under test are traditional cast-iron wood stoves, pellet stoves, or newer high-efficiency designs evaluated side by side in the same climate-controlled room.