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Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 19, 2016
Applicant:

Heat and Control, Inc., Flower Mound, TX (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth C. Petri, Richardson, TX (US);

Richard Rees, Arlington, TX (US);

Assignee:

Heat & Control, Inc., Flower Mound, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 11/08 (2006.01); B65B 57/14 (2006.01); B65B 35/10 (2006.01); G01G 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 57/14 (2013.01); B65B 35/10 (2013.01); G01G 11/08 (2013.01); G01G 13/248 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of controlling an upstream and a downstream process wherein the upstream process conditions a stream of product delivered to the downstream process is provided. The control method uses an empirically determined formula to determine a metric for adjusting the activity of the upstream process to thereby adjust the rate with which the upstream process conditions and feeds a stream of conditioned product to the downstream process. The empirically determined formula determines the metric using two input variables: a duty cycle setting of the upstream process and an output rate of the downstream process expressed as a decimal amount of the output rate set-point.


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