ProBake® Firing System

innovatherm Firing and Control System ProBake® combines 40-years of experience in open top and closed type anode baking furnaces with the latest firing and control technology, incorporating the latest measurement, diagnosis and control technologies.

ProBake® offers the best approach for an efficient and economical operation on

• existing or new furnace design
• fuel oil or natural gas fired systems

ProBake achieves the following goals:

• high and consistent anode quality
• complete tar burn
• complete volatile combustion
• lowest energy consumption,
• lowered NOx and CO emissions

innovatherm designs, supplies and commissions complete firing systems for anode baking furnaces with the following features and additional components:

Process engineering

• Turn-key installations, for fully automatic safe operation of the furnace,
• all necessary safety and alarm interlocks,
• fire change in less than 20 minutes and
• preparation of the entire equipment for a change of firing direction.
• easy adaptation to different furnace designs,
• easy operation and maintenance,
• automatic “cross-over” strategy (firing around the corner),
• safety package for low draft situations,
• gas safety test with dynamic monitoring,
• automatic zero adjustment of all pressure sensors (cyclic).

Mechanics

• Cooling ramps, controlled, with central or individual fans,
• Zero point ramps for zero pressure control,
• Burner ramps for gas or oil with Ultra Low NOx burner and extremely low maintenance dosing valve with 500.000.000 switching cycles,
• Measuring ramps for draft control,
• Exhaust ramps with automatic draught/temperature control

Automation Technology

• Transparent system architecture,
• Standardized PLC and PC hardware,
• Windows 10 or Windows Server operating system,
• Highest availability and reliability,
• Robust plugs for safe plugging,
• Multiple redundancy, hot stand-by,
• Long-term data archiving by means of ProDat software,
• Easy connection to PPS systems via Ethernet TCP/IP,
• Wireless radio network TCP/IP Wireless with 54Mbit/sec
• Software

The following modules are provided for the optimization of the firing process

• Flooding Index Module,
• Firing Index Module,
• Pitch burn Module,
• Flue Condition Module.
• Flow Control Module

Technological Advantages of the System

The ProBake® System provides the following advantages:

• Lowest energy consumption, low as down to < 1,7 GJ/t
• Pitch burn module for maximum pitch volatile combustion
• Flow Control Module, Flow Prediction for each flue by Fuzzy Logics
• Highest Firing Flexibility by section oriented baking curves
• Wi-Fi Technology (Wireless) for high reliability and low maintenance
• Low NOx Burner Technology for lowest emissions
• Innovatherm Short Pulse Dosing Valve, 500.000.000 switching cycles guaranteed
• RFID Technology for Automatic Position Detection
• Long Life Flue Thermocouple Type S with patented shock adsorber technology

The integration of special customer requirements and experience into the firing system is a matter of course. Scaled solutions can be implemented as well.

The ProBake® firing system from innovatherm represents the optimum solution tailored to the customer’s needs with future-oriented equipment.