STRATEGY:
Engineers Warm Up to IR Vision
Images from infrared cameras can identify problems that visual inspections and electrical tests overlook. Although a thermal, or infrared, vision system can easily inspect printed-circuit boards (PCBs) and their components, many people in the electronics business don’t fully understand what thermal imaging can do for them. In essence, an infrared (IR) camera provides a visual thermal profile that will immediately indicate problems. Andy Beck, national sales manager at Mikron Infrared, recently found himself the lone exhibitor of IR-imaging equipment at a trade show. “Engineers would ask, 'What does infrared have to do with vision?’
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STRATEGY:
Boiler Monitoring
Traditionally, power station operators wear protective visors and look into inspection ports, attempting to see through flames for signs of slag on boiler tubes. Infrared imaging offers a potential solution, but cryogenically cooled cameras (in the 3.9-micron band) which can penetrate flames are too expensive. An innovative development by Mikron Infrared — that images in the range of 8- to-14 microns — utilizes proprietary filtering. The camera sees through flames and withstands extreme temperature, which are necessary for imaging inside boilers where heat from combustion exceeds 1100 degrees C (2012°F).
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Wireless radiometric camera technology is simple to install and maintain while providing data for loss prevention and process improvement. Operators of high-temperature pressure vessels can now see in vivid color the advantages of wireless radiometric imaging technology for safety monitoring of shell temperatures. The largest such system, utilizing 14 Mikron infrared cameras and MikroSpec R/T software, has been online for more than a year monitoring a Chevron-Texaco-designed gas separation system in Texas.