Three ways to conduct thermal inspections August 2024, Comtest There’s no universal solution for all infrared inspections with a Fluke thermal camera, also known as a thermal imager. You need to match your method to the type of equipment you’re inspecting and the level of detail you require.
Increased safety and control in steel plants August 2024 AMETEK Land has helped a major metals industry plant designer to enhance safety, control, and efficiency in steel plants.
Industrial water heating solutions June 2024 Electrolux (Kwikot) Industrial’s massive water heating tanks are making a name for themselves beyond local borders.
Optimising steam management for boiler efficiency June 2024, Endress+Hauser South Africa Endress+Hauser understands the daily challenges and demands placed on energy and utility managers across the spectrum of steam generation, distribution and consumption activities. Its global team is committed to working with its partners to overcome these complexities, and particularly those that aim for a safe, economic and sustainable sitsce of steam energy production and delivery.
Temperature to IO-Link module May 2024, ifm - South Africa IO-Link has become established as an intelligent interface for integrating smart sensors and devices in various industries. With the new ifm IO-Link measuring modules, up to four temperature probes can be connected to an IO-Link master port in two-, three- or four-wire configuration.
Temperature measurement solution for foundry April 2024 AMETEK Land, a world-leading manufacturer of infrared pyrometers, scanners and thermal imagers, is helping an Indian foundry to support metal quality and reduce ongoing costs.
Supporting sustainable steelmaking March 2024 AMETEK Land is helping the steel industry meet global decarbonisation challenges with a range of solutions.
High-precision data loggers for wire and thermocouple probes March 2024, Senseca Senseca, formerly the GHM Group, has launched new handheld meter/data loggers for Pt100 four-wire probes and thermocouple probes. These are redesigned with enhanced features.
Dramatically reducing greenhouse emissions February 2024 Online teaser: There is considerable potential for reducing CO2 emissions in the mill process by optimising the heat source for drying. The most promising approach to achieving a carbon neutral process in a hot gas generator is the combustion of green hydrogen.
Infrared camera for condition monitoring and early fire detection January 2024, Instrotech The Optris PI 640i thermal imager is the smallest measuring VGA infrared camera, with a body-sized volume of 45 x 56 x 90 mm, and weighing only 269 to 340 g, depending on the lens. It counts among the most compact thermal imaging cameras on the market.
Paint curing applications in the automotive industry January 2024, R&C Instrumentation For successful paint cure, irrespective of the paint chemistry being used, there is a critical need to measure and control the temperature of the car body as it travels through the oven. Today, paint ovens are controlled in a sophisticated fashion via thermocouples located in each zone to give constant feedback on the ambient temperature.
Universal temperature transmitter with drift detection November 2023, WIKA Instruments The new model T38 digital temperature transmitter from WIKA enables extremely flexible and stable temperature measurement. The instrument offers a maximum of sensor connection combinations, and a new type of drift detection.
Temperature monitoring in the metal casting process October 2023, Instrotech During metal casting, the liquid material is poured into a mould, and after solidification becomes a solid body. Both too-high and too-low casting temperatures can lead to quality defects. The compact Optris PI 05M infrared thermal imaging camera from Instrotech can monitor the casting process.
Pyrometer range with enhanced features September 2023 AMETEK Land has relaunched its market-leading SPOT pyrometer range with enhanced features and benefits for a wide range of industrial applications. The new SPOT+ family offers a wide range of temperature measurement from 50 to 3500°C, and a choice of different wavelengths for applications including metals, glass, cement and lime kilns, and foundries.
Versatile thermal imaging camera September 2023, Vepac Electronics The PeakTech 5610 B is a versatile thermal imaging camera with a range of -20 to 400°C, and a thermal resolution of 220x160 thermal pixels, which makes temperature differences easily recognisable for every user.
Infrared measurement technology for scrap recycling August 2023, Instrotech Instrotech offers fire protection with infrared cameras and IR measurement technology. One application is a shredding facility in a scrap recycling plant that operates unmanned for an extended period and has known risks for starting a fire.
Improving safety in glass manufacturing June 2023 AMETEK Land has supplied its LWIR-640 thermal imagers and NIR-B-2K-Glass cameras to leading glass manufacturing facility O-I Seville. Together, these instruments provide glass leak detection and furnace ...
Smart temperature measurement for foundries June 2023 Liquid steel, and metal foundry and tapping operators can now benefit from improved and smart temperature measurements for process control, and product quality improvements with the new smart SPOT Meltmaster (MM) application pyrometer from AMETEK Land.
Ratio pyrometer for high temperatures May 2023, Instrotech Infrared pyrometers must meet high demands, especially in metallurgy, where they are often used under harsh conditions and must deliver reliable results at any time. The new CSvision series from Optris creates an easy-to-use solution.
Portable flue gas analyser April 2023 Ametek Land, a specialist in high accuracy, non-contact temperature measurement systems, has developed a portable flue gas analyser to aid combustion optimisation and gas testing in glass furnaces.
