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Method and device for cost-orientated operation of a conditioning device particularly a filter

US6009404A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 7, 1997
Grant dateDec 28, 1999
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Expiry dateAug 7, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06Q30/0283
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention pertains to a process and a device for cost-oriented monitoring and/or display of the operating state of a replaceable or regenerable, fluid (7) traversed conditioning device (1), particularly a filter (4), in an overall system. According to the invention sensors (9; 10; 11) are used to measure continuously or at intervals at least one measurement value from which of the exhaustion state of the conditioning device is derived according to the following steps: the measurement value is supplied to an evaluation electronic unit (16); the exhaustion state of the conditioning device (1) is determined from the measurement values; by means of the functional dependencies and/or data stored in the evaluation electronic unit (16), the effects of the exhaustion state of the conditioning device (1) on the operating costs of the overall system are at least approximated; by means of the functional dependencies and/or data stored in the evaluation electronic unit (16) the cost of replacing or regenerating the conditioning device (1) is determined and compared with the effects of the exhaustion state on the operating costs; a display instrument (24), in particular a display instrument…

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