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| | | | Thermal Imaging Utilities Industry
Application Notes and Case Studies
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This article reviews the fundamental causes of overheating, as well as, the tests and tools commonly used to uncover overheating problems. |
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This document outlines steps that will help you grow your thermography program into a key part of the way your company does business. |
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While many people in the power generation industry are familiar with annual infrared thermography surveys as part of PdM, the coal plant in this case study uses a thermal imager year round. There are two differences in their approach. |
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One set of tools for monitoring equipment in substations is Fluke's handheld thermal imagers. Thermal imagers capture two-dimensional representations of the apparent surface temperatures of electrical components and other objects. |
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In energy audits of homes and other buildings, technicians use blower doors in conjunction with thermal imagers. The blowers create positive or negative pressures within interior envelopes, making leaks much more apparent in thermal images. |
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Surface temperature can tell you a lot about a building's structural elements, plumbing installations, and HVAC and electrical systems. Problems that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye are suddenly clear as day when you look through an infrared lens. |
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Normally, people in industry use level indicators to tell how much product is inside a tank. So why do so many of them also use thermal imagers (infrared cameras) to do the same thing? It's because of the horror stories. |
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This document discusses the cost savings of thermal imaging (thermography) PdM, provides guidelines for successfully capturing and analyzing thermographic data and describes how to integrate thermography into a predictive maintenance program. |
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Electrical contractors typically use thermal imagers for predictive maintenance and troubleshooting, and sometimes during installation. |
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Using a handheld infrared imager, the technical services supervisor at Adams Columbia Electric Cooperative, monitors the health of the co-op's equipment, the equipment of its members, and sometimes even the equipment of the transmission company supplying its substations. | | |
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