Abstract: A container for transporting flowable filling material includes a tank with a gas connection to which a protective gas line can be connected. A sensor device including an adapter element and a telemetry module is connected to the gas connection of the tank by the adapter device. The adapter element has a gas connection piece and a medium channel. A protective gas line can be connected to the gas connection piece of the adapter when the adapter is connected to the gas connection of the tank so that a protective gas can be guided through the gas connection piece and the medium channel of the adapter and into an interior of the tank. The telemetry module has a sensor that senses data relating to a state parameter of the container and/or filling material and a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the data.

Abstract: A container for transporting flowable filling material includes a tank with a gas connection to which a protective gas line can be connected. A sensor device including an adapter element and a telemetry module is connected to the gas connection of the tank by the adapter device. The adapter element has a gas connection piece and a medium channel. A protective gas line can be connected to the gas connection piece of the adapter when the adapter is connected to the gas connection of the tank so that a protective gas can be guided through the gas connection piece and the medium channel of the adapter and into an interior of the tank. The telemetry module has a sensor that senses data relating to a state parameter of the container and/or filling material and a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the data.

Abstract: A method for operating a container having a frame and a tank supported a distance from the ground by the frame so that a bottom side of the tank is accessible, includes connecting a protective gas line to a gas connection on the tank and applying pressure to the protective gas line before removing filling material from the tank so that protective gas can flow into the interior of the tank through a medium channel. A removal apparatus is connected to an opening of the tank and filling material present in the tank is removed from an interior of the tank through the opening. Data relating to a pressure of protective gas in the medium channel is detected by a pressure sensor at least during a time period of removing the filling material from the tank.

Abstract: The material settling on the inside of the centrifuge drum during operation of centrifuges causes imbalances on account of the unavoidable nonuniform mass distribution, which imbalances lead to vibrations and the associated high level of solid-borne sound and bearing wear. The centrifuge drum shaft (15) is supported by an active (variable pressure) hydraulic bearing support (10) that is relatively simple in design and inexpensive to manufacture for this centrifuge application.