{"Device hardware license":"CERN-OHL-S","Page SDG":"SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure","Page URL":"https://www.appropedia.org/Modular_Open-Source_Design_of_Pyrolysis_Reactor_Monitoring_and_Control_Electronics","Page affiliations":"FAST, Western","Page authors":"User:J.M.Pearce","Page description":"Industrial 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.","Page image":"File:BREADSoftwareLogo.jpg","Page keywords":"open source hardware, open hardware, open-source electronics, automation, Arduino, pyrolysis, controls, monitoring, distributed manufacturing, laboratory equipment, open source, Data Acquisition, Automation Framework, Measurement Systems, Low Cost Alternative","Page language":"en","Page title":"Modular Open-Source Design of Pyrolysis Reactor Monitoring and Control Electronics","Page title tag":"Modular Open-Source Pyrolysis Reactor Control Electronics","Page views":"93","Page year":"Sunday, 01-Jan-23 00:00:00 UTC","Project authors":"Finn Hafting, Daniel Kulas, Etienne Michels, Sarvada Chipkar, Stefan Wisniewski, David Shonnard, J.M.User:J.M.Pearce","Project coordinates":"42.983675, -81.249605555556","Project location":"London, ON, Canada","Project status":"Designed, Modelled, Prototyped, Verified","Project thumb":"https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/thumb/d/d7/BREADSoftwareLogo.jpg/330px-BREADSoftwareLogo.jpg","Project uses":"3D Printing","Modification date":"Sunday, 23-Mar-25 12:42:42 UTC"}