ThermaScope® also features a fail-safe retraction system which automatically pulls the camera back and away from the heat should either the air, water or power supply fail. The result is a rugged and reliable camera system which gives the process engineer or control room operator advanced viewing and analysis tools with control interface signals for closed loop control.
Thermoteknix mounted a ThermaScope® boiler camera in each of the boilers at the top of each tower looking downwards over the burner zones. The cameras were networked to the control room to give PREPA’s engineers a crisp, real time display of the combustion process in each boiler and now have the added advantage of not only being able to monitor the process but actually measuring accurate temperatures within it.
PREPA also wanted to view normal video of the outside of each chimney stack simultaneously with the ThermaScope® thermal image data in order to monitor smoke escaping from the boilers so a ‘picture in picture’ view was also set up (left).
Thermoteknix has more than 25 years’ experience of designing and manufacturing high temperature cameras for use in harsh environments such as cement kilns, furnaces and boilers.
Thermoteknix recently installed a new ThermaScope