Patent ID: 7182283

Claim:
A pulverizer monitoring system comprising: at least one pulverizer comprising a rotatable bowl assembly, at least one journal assembly having a deflectable grinding roll positioned proximal said rotatable bowl assembly, and a position sensor mounted to said at least one journal assembly to detect an amount of deflection of said grinding roll, said position sensor generating a position signal; a data module associated with said at least one pulverizer, said data module receiving each position signal; a calculation engine linked to said data module, said calculation engine analyzing said position signal and generating at least one characteristic report; a workstation linked to said calculation engine to allow access to said at least one characteristic report; and a user interface linked to either said calculation engine or said workstation, said user interface enabling presetting of acceptable ranges of parameters and alarm levels for said at least one pulverizer when any one of said range of parameters is exceeded, said user interface displaying results of said at least one characteristic report.