{"id":115779,"key":"Modular_Open-Source_Design_of_Pyrolysis_Reactor_Monitoring_and_Control_Electronics","title":"Modular Open-Source Design of Pyrolysis Reactor Monitoring and Control Electronics","latest":{"id":1154562,"timestamp":"2025-03-23T12:42:42Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:BREADSoftwareLogo.jpg|Broadly Reconfigurable and Expandable Automation Device (BREAD)|thumb]]\n\n[[File:Pyrolysis ga.png|thumb]]\n\n{{FAST notice}}\n\n{{Publication data\n| type = Paper\n| cite-as = Hafting, F.K.; Kulas, D.; Michels, E.; Chipkar, S.; Wisniewski, S.; Shonnard, D.; Pearce, J.M. Modular Open-Source Design of Pyrolysis Reactor Monitoring and Control Electronics. ''Electronics'' 2023, 12, 4893. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12244893.\n[https://www.academia.edu/110612612/Modular_Open_Source_Design_of_Pyrolysis_Reactor_Monitoring_and_Control_Electronics Academia.edu] [https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202310.1681/v1 preprint]\n}}\n\n{{Project data\n| authors = Finn Hafting, Daniel Kulas, Etienne Michels, Sarvada Chipkar, Stefan Wisniewski, David Shonnard, J.M.User:J.M.Pearce\n| status = Designed, Modelled, Prototyped, Verified\n| verified-by = FAST\n| uses = 3D Printing\n| links = https://osf.io/3ugbn/\n| location = London, ON, Canada\n}}\n\n{{Device data\n| assembly-instructions = https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12244893\n| design-files = https://osf.io/3ugbn/\n}}\n\nIndustrial pilot projects often rely on proprietary and expensive electronic hardware to control and monitor experiments. This raises costs and retards innovation. Open-source hardware tools exist for implementing these processes individually; however, they are not easily integrated with other designs. The Broadly Reconfigurable and Expandable Automation Device (BREAD) is a framework that provides many open-source devices which can be connected to create more complex data acquisition and control systems. This article explores the feasibility of using BREAD plug-and-play open hardware to quickly design and test monitoring and control electronics for an industrial materials processing prototype pyrolysis reactor. Generally, pilot-scale pyrolysis plants are expensive custom designed systems. The plug-and-play prototype approach was first tested by connecting it to the pyrolysis reactor and ensuring that it can measure temperature and actuate heaters and a stirring motor. Next, a single circuit board system was created and tested using the designs from the BREAD prototype to reduce the number of microcontrollers required. Both open-source control systems were capable of reliably running the pyrolysis reactor continuously, achieving equivalent performance to a state-of-the-art commercial controller with a ten-fold reduction in the overall cost of control. Open-source, plug-and-play hardware provides a reliable avenue for researchers to quickly develop data acquisition and control electronics for industrial-scale experiments.\n\n{{Pearce publications notice}}\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Open Source Framework for a Broadly Expandable and Reconfigurable Data Acquisition and Automation Device (BREAD)]]\n* [[Moving the Open-Source Broadly Reconfigurable and Expandable Automation Device (BREAD) Towards a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System]]\n* [[Open Source Lab]]\n* [[Building research equipment with free, open-source hardware]]\n* [[Open source science]]\n* [[Open-source hardware]]\n\n{{Page data\n| title-tag = Modular Open-Source Pyrolysis Reactor Control Electronics\n| keywords = open source hardware, open hardware, open-source electronics, automation, Arduino, automation, pyrolysis, controls, monitoring, distributed manufacturing, laboratory equipment, open source, Data Acquisition, Automation Framework, Measurement Systems, Low Cost Alternative\n| sdg = SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure\n| authors = User:J.M.Pearce\n| organizations = FAST, Western\n}}\n\n[[Category:FAST Completed]]\n[[Category:science]]\n[[Category:electronics]]\n[[Category:Open source hardware]]\n[[Category:electrical engineering]]\n[[Category:FAST methods]]\n[[Category:3d printing]]\n[[Category:Distributed manufacturing]]\n[[Category:Open hardware]]\n[[Category:Open source]]"}