The machinery and plant manufacturing sector spans an enormously wide range of different applications. Plant control is based on reliable and accurate measurements based on sensors. This particularly also applies to the measurement and communication of pressure and fill levels.

Be it pressure sensors, pressure transducers or electronic pressure switches, BD|SENSORS will offer you the most cost-effective solution in terms of technology or price - from cost-effective OEM pressure transducers up to precision instruments for reference measurements:

• Pneumatics and hydraulics
• Machine tools / presses / injection molding machines
• Test rigs / test systems

to name but a few examples.

Our CEO Rainer Denndörfer is convinced that conventional energy generation technologies will persist adjacent to renewable energies. BD|SENSORS will thus offer suitable electronic pressure transducers and hydrostatic fill level probes for both fields of energy generation and also be ready to design new ones where needed.

• Large power stations (nuclear, coal, gas)
• Peak-load power generating plant
• Combined heat and power plant

Plant and equipment used on ships and yachts are exposed to the harshest of climatic conditions, to rough environments and extremely high mechanical stress. BD|SENSORS pressure and fill level measuring instruments will remain reliable and durable for many years under such conditions of stress. The many certifications for shipping worldwide document that the functionality and design of our equipment is eminently suited for deployment on ships.

• Fill level measurements in tanks on container ships containing a diversity of media(potable water, ballast/industrial and waste water, fuels, liquid chemicals and more)
• Control of anti-heeling systems, measurements of draught
• Pressure measurement in hydraulic systems, lubricant lines, pumps and compressors and in HVAC systems

Bei der Herstellung von Nahrungs- und Genussmitteln, ebenso wie bei pharmazeutischen Produkten, stehen vor allem Hygiene-Anforderungen im Mittelpunkt des Herstellungsprozesses. Dies betrifft nicht nur die Produktionsstätten, sondern auch Maschinen- und Anlagetechnik und hierbei im Besonderen die eingesetzte Sensor- und Messtechnik. Druck- und Füllstandsmessgeräte von BD|SENSORS entsprechen in Bezug auf Design- und Wertstoffauswahl uneingeschränkt den Anforderungen dieser Märkte weltweit.

Hygienegerechtes Design

• Keine Toträume, Spalten, Kanten
• Materialoberflächen mit geringer Rautiefe
• Leichte Montage und Demontage der Druckmessgeräte
• Bündige Ankopplung von Komponenten
• Reinigbar und dampfsterilisierbar im eingebauten Zustand (CIP, SIP)

Lebensmittelkonforme Werkstoffe

• Edelstahl 1.4404 / 14435, Tantal, Hastelloy
• Auf Wunsch extra polierte Oberflächen
• Reinstkeramik (AL203 99,9%), poliert
• Elastomerdichtungen aus EPDM, FKM, u.a.

Chemical processes make very high demands on electronic pressure measuring instruments and hydrostatic fill level probes in two respects:

• processes may be complex with high dynamic pressures and fast changing temperatures
• the media are diverse and may be chemically aggressive, explosive, toxic, abrasive and sometimes also dirty and viscous.

Add to this top safety requirements, especially in explosion hazardous plant and equipment and the absolute demand for top operational reliability.

Applications

• Pressure monitoring of tanks for gas and fluids
• Pressure measurement in distillation columns, supply systems and vessels (e.g. ammonia, solvents)
• Fill level measurements in storage tanks for fluids or sludge
• Fill level monitoring in distillation columns and retention tanks
• Fill level measurement for coolants, condensates and end products

Characteristics / special features

• nominal pressures from 100 mbar to 1 000 bar
• fill heights from 1 m WG
• pressure connections and membranes made of materials suited for virtually all gases and fluids in the chemistry/petrochemistry sector, e.g. many stainless steels, Hastelloy, titanium, high-purity ceramics Al2O3 99,9% - polished etc.
• robust die cast aluminium or stainless steel field frames
• 4 - 20 mA / 2L design, display or HART communication optional
• accuracy classes from OEM via industrial and up to 0.1% standard accuracy class
• temperature ranges from -40 to +125°C; protection classes IP65 to IP69K

water/waste water/recycling

The acquisition of fill and gauge height is a central requirement in this field. BD|SENSORS here deploys the highly reliable method of hydrostatic fill level measurement. In practice this is implemented in different variations -  be it in the form of level probes for surface and ground water applications, submersible probes for wastewater treatment plants and storm water overflow tanks, or down to fill level probes for tank farms and in container construction. 
In addition to probes of any imaginable type required for water processing, we also offer solutions designed for aggressive media such as acids and lyes.

Innovation

The combination of a diversity of materials for enclosures with sensors made of metal and ceramics is a perfect basis for innovative customer solutions. BD|SENSORS in this way ensures that the hydrostatic water and fill level concept will remain superior to any other method of measurement, both in terms of technology and price and in terms of accuracy, service life, reliability, simple fitment and commissioning.

Characteristics / special features

• fill heights of 40 cm to 250 m fluid column
• enclosures made of different metallic and synthetic materials
• sensors made of stainless steel and ceramics
• high-purity ceramic capacitive pressure sensors, polished, extremely resistant to media and mechanically virtually indestructible
• separable submersible probes with integrated overvoltage protection
  a range of electrical output signals, analog or digital and with HART protocol

Scientists these days believe that the natural resources of oil and gas are not quite as finite as thus far assumed. These resources are likely to remain available considerably longer than hitherto predicted.
This is the reason why BD|SENSORS is one of only a few global companies that recognized a need for the development of accurate and robust instruments for the measurement of pressures in the field of oil and gas production - including traditional onshore and offshore drilling for and extraction of oil and also fracking.

• Measuring pressures in pumps, drilling heads and sludge recirculation lines
• Monitoring of process pressures in separators
• Monitoring pressures and measuring flow in pipelines
• Monitoring fill levels in storage vessels and tank
  

Innovation

The electronic BD|SENSORS pressure measuring instruments in the field of oil and gas production have set standards in terms of

• high pressures (up to 8 000 bar)
• robust construction to withstand stresses of drilling, production or fracking in the most extreme operational and environmental conditions
• reliability and long-term stability

Characteristics

• nominal pressures up to 8 000 bar
• fill heights from 1 m water column
• pressure connections meeting international standards, e.g. Hammer Unions
• instruments with turn-down function
• protection classes IP65 to IP69K