Thermo Scientific™
COBOS Coal Blend Optimization System
Catalog number: COBOS
The Thermo Scientific™ COBOS Coal Blend Optimization System is powerful, intuitive software for blending coal sources to meet a defined quality specification at minimum cost, within the constraints of operational priorities. Allowing operators to make any number of predefined ‘recipes’, it optimizes the manual or automatic control of coal sorting and blending equipment, even in the face of changing source quality. With COBOS any available coal source can be defined in terms of composition and value; target recipes are specified in terms of quality parameters such as ash, sulfur, moisture, ash oxide or ratioed ash oxide content. Up to six sources are chosen to make an individual, selected blend. Use COBOS to minimize the variability of coal blends, consistently satisfy customer specifications and simultaneously improve the bottom line by using fewer high cost/scarce coal supplies.