Bürkert AirLINE Type 8652 valve island

The Bürkert AirLINE Type 8652 valve island has been designed for applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and beverage industries as well as for water treatment applications. It offers users adjustable monitoring and diagnostic functions that improve system availability while at the same time enabling preventive maintenance, according to the company. An integrated display shows detailed on-site information such as the current switching status of the pilot and process valves, issues a message if preset pressure limit values are exceeded and displays errors such as cable breaks in plain text.

The 8652 valve island is significantly smaller than its predecessor and therefore fits more easily into compact control cabinets that can be placed close to the process valves.

The valve island communicates via common industrial Ethernet protocols or Profibus DP. In sealed ring topologies and Profinet I/O communication, the Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) for highly available networks ensures that even switch or cable break can be compensated for.

Every single valve is hot-swap capable, which means it can be replaced during live operation without shutting down the system. As an additional safety function, check valves are used in the exhaust channel. These prevent the unwanted activation of valves by pressure peaks and the resulting mixing of media.

With the valve island, Bürkert is systematically expanding its Efficient Device Integration Platform (EDIP), which the company is using to equip its products for Industry 4.0. The EDIP device platform includes numerous functions and adapted HMI devices that facilitate the integration of new devices.