BoilerSpection™ is a turn-key solution for continuous infrared imaging inside boilers. BoilerSpection™ provides the clearest, most informative through-flame imaging.
With BoilerSpection™, coal plant operators can proactively manage their boilers and vastly improve uptime. In fact, a return on investment study by customer’s have found ROIs measured in only a few months, not years.
- Rugged IP66, air cooled, protective enclosure
- Accurate 640x480 focal-plane array thermal imaging camera with sensitivity of 0.06 °C
- Ethernet interface for long distance reliable communication
- Boroscope optics filtered at 0.85 μm wavelength to view through combustion gas and flames
- Auto retraction for SD systems
- Class 1 Div 2 compliant
- Advanced software with simultaneous acquisition from multiple cameras, advanced analysis tools, support for OPC, analog and digital IOs, web service, and archiving
- Complete system integration with installation support
Technical Data
| IR Camera | |
| Wavelength | Narrowband 3.9 µm |
| Resolution | 320 x 240 |
| Detector Type | Uncooled Focal Plane Array VOx Microbolometer |
| Protective Housing | IP66 with Integrated Vortex Air Cooling |
| Measurement Range | 500 to 1600 °C (932 to 2912 °F) |
| Ambient Environment | Up to 60 °C (140 °F) |
| Camera Weight | 30 lbs (13.5 kg) |
| Lens | |
| Construction | Stainless steel with air cooling / purge |
| Field of View | 50° H x 38° V |
| Focus | Manual |
| Protection | Sapphire window tip with air purge shield |
| Diameter | 1.65” (42 mm) |
| Facility Connection Requirements | |
| Power | 110-240 VAC, two 15 Amp Lines to support six camera |
| Electrical Cabinets | All cabinets/panels are NEMA 4 / IP65 |
| Air Supply | 20-30 scfm at minimum 80 psi per camera |
| Automatic Retraction Device and Mounting | |
| Controls | Automated retraction if air or power is disrupted |
| Air Filters | Two stage filter system |
| Air Regulators | Included |
| Mounting | Weld or bolt on mounting plates |
| Waterwall Opening
|
2” (50 mm) gap |
| Weld-on thru Hole | 2.5” (64 mm) circle |
| Furnace Pressure | Negative, balanced, or positive pressure |
| Networking | |
| Number of Cameras | Up to 24 to a single control room server |
| Camera Connection | 100 Base T Ethernet |
| Field Switch Cabinet | NEMA 4 / IP66 enclosure with Ethernet Switch |
| Connection to Control Room | Fiber Optic Link, 50/125µm core/ cladding diameter multi-mode fiber, 850/1310nm wavelength |
LumaSense
LumaSense systems empower our customers to realize immediate, verifiable, and sustainable savings from efficiency gains and waste reduction that go directly to the bottom line. Typical efficiency gains range from a minimum of 1% and up to 4% – even well beyond – opening the door to billions of dollars of savings in readily preventable expenses for our customers in the Global Energy, Industrial Materials, and Advanced Technologies markets. Systems and sensors span thermal imaging, pyrometry, fiberoptic temperature sensors, non-dispersive infrared and photo acoustic spectroscopy, gas-sensing modules, and a range of purpose-built sensors. These are developed, optimized, and tuned for the specific requirements of resource-intensive global industries and all are integrated into a feature-rich and customizable software solution to optimize the insight these sensors can provide and to allow for integration into controls and automation of processes.