6700 LLI Product Blending Application
When a customer called and asked us for assistance with measuring levels in blending tanks, we were glad to help. The tanks in question were the ordinary bulk storage tanks, but the customer used them for blending products. This meant pushing and pulling products through the tanks that caused a great deal of turbulence that often damaged the existing mechanical gauges. Looking at the application a little further, we found there was no existing cabling or conduit to the tanks. The measurement device they were looking for was not used for inventory management; it would only be used for gauging if the tank was “empty” or “full”.

Radar and servo were expensive solutions due to cabling and conduit costs. The customer ruled out a mechanical float and tape tank gauge, as this was what was currently installed. This left one option further down the scale of level measurement technology – a 6700 liquid level “gauge board”. No welding was needed to install the gauge boards to the tanks’ existing pipe work and the large gauge boards can easily be seen while driving around the facility.

When it comes to blending, the operators just pull on a cable and tie it off at the side of the tank to raise the float out of harms way – a very simple solution that makes sense.