Measurement and trial guide

Begin with a decision

State what the evaluation must establish. A useful question is specific: can preventive acoustic cleaning hold this zone near an agreed condition for a representative operating campaign while the existing removal system continues to function?

Do not begin with a broad promise to improve uptime or efficiency. Select the plant signal that the diagnosed deposit directly affects.

Establish the starting condition

Record whether the surface begins clean, partially recovered or already restricted. A preventive system should not be judged as though it were designed to remove mature slag, hardened deposits or packed material.

Document the cleaning method used to create the baseline and preserve inspection photographs with date, scale and location.

Select one primary metric

Examples include:

• differential pressure across the affected zone;
• flue-gas or process exit temperature at comparable operation;
• fan load or available flow margin;
• cleaning cycles or manual interventions per operating period;
• hopper discharge interruptions;
• campaign length before derate or cleaning;
• catalyst, field or collection stability linked to the affected deposit.

Secondary metrics can provide context, but they should not replace a predefined primary measure after results are known.

Define comparable conditions

Record load, production rate, fuel, feedstock, reagents, gas flow, temperature, moisture, ambient conditions and operator interventions. Identify maintenance or control changes that occur during the comparison.

Normalisation may be required where operating conditions vary. The method should be agreed before the data is reviewed.

Set the measurement period

The period should cover the cycle over which the deposit normally returns and include representative operating variation. A brief clean period cannot establish sustained prevention if the historical problem develops over weeks or months.

State required data completeness and the treatment of outages, sensor faults and abnormal operation.

Inspect the material path

Confirm that material leaves the affected zone and reaches the intended hopper, screw, conveyor or ash system. Track re-entrainment, downstream loading and new accumulation locations.

Agree success and stop criteria

Success should state the primary metric, threshold, duration and acceptable operating conditions. Stop criteria should cover adverse pressure, emissions, vibration, noise, downstream overload, equipment condition and any site-specific safety concern.

The existing cleaning system should remain available unless the approved test plan states otherwise.

Preserve the evidence status

Label each eventual result as Sylio measured, customer confirmed or independently verified. Record configuration, firing sequence, maintenance, tuning and anything that did not improve. This prevents one result from becoming a universal claim.

Sylio does not currently promise a trial through this page. Commercial and operational trial availability must be confirmed separately.