Automating your blower and compressor with a local control panel saves money through improved control functionality and protects your investment by monitoring critical inputs such as surge, vibration, or temperature. Local control panels can can also be provided with an integrated motor starter or variable frequency drive to save on installation and avoid integration issues. Systems are fully tested and warranted.

There are two levels of master control that a sMAC™ system can provide.

The first provides organizational control of the blowers and Centrifugal Compressors through sequencing. Sequencing automates which blowers turn on and off, modulates them to provide the total desired output, balances run hours between units, and can automatically restart a system after a power outage or unplanned shutdown. Many systems have difficulty operating multiple blowers on a common header and a master control panel can solve this through active control.

The second level can provide complete automation of your blower and Centrifugal Compressor process. Process control provides blower and Centrifugal Compressor sequencing, combined with the automation of process valves and instrumentation, and results in maximized energy savings.

PROCESSING & SEQUENCING CONTROL

Example of a 3 basin standard aeration application monitoring dissolved oxygen. Lone Star can provide a turn-key solution and provide all equipment shown.

Lone Star offers a complete solutions in providing a pre-engineered and automated process beyond local blower and compressor control.

Efficiency Optimization: sMAC™ sequencing can optimize your efficiency as blowers and centrifugal compressors are not equally efficient throughout their operating range. A smart sequencer does not move all blowers up and down together, but will operate blowers in their most efficient “sweet spot” and allow only one blower to be a variable trim unit.

Lone Star offers single point responsibility for the complete automation of your process including all hardware and on-site integration. The sMAC™ Process Controller can operate the blowers and centrifugal compressors to a set point such as flow or pressure, but also to process control variables such as off-gas, ammonia or dissolved oxygen at many points of use.

sMAC™ utilizes FOV – Fully Open Valve control uses flow set points to lower your header pressure to only what is required. Lower header pressure means lower power consumption! However, we can also provide traditional MOV – Mostly Open Valve type control using pressure set points.

Total System Responsibility means we will provide blowers and centrifugal compressors, local control panels, motor starters and drives, control valves, flow meters, and probes such as dissolved oxygen or ammonia sensors all integrated into a turn-key system. One source responsibility that offers both substantial energy savings and capital cost savings by adding a Master Control Panel to operate the entire system.

Sequencing: Operate multiple blowers and compressors more efficiently with a sequencing panel to always run blowers and centrifugal compressors at optimal power.

Process Control: Operate multiple points of use with flow control valves and flow meters to self-regulate to any variable input such as pressure, dissolved oxygen, or flow. The panel will automatically regulate the flow range of the blowers, centrifugal compressors, and control valves at each point of use to meet any set point.

Hybrid Systems: Integrate 2 blower and compressor technologies on the same common header to increase efficiency and lower capital costs.

We can control any blower and centrifugal compressor technology or a mix of technologies. Let Lone Star upgrade your existing system.