Fundamentals of Non-contact Temperature Measurement - Industry Webinar

AMETEK Land introduce the fundamentals of non-contact temperature measurement. What industrial processes benefit from these kinds of measurement and why this technology can be advantageous? Many examples are discussed and comparisons with other temperature measurement methods are shown.

Overview

Contact temperature measurement systems are often used as a low-cost solution in many industrial production applications. But they also have drawbacks, including relatively short operating lives, poor applicability to certain environments, and lack of full thermal coverage sensing.

Non-contact temperature measurement systems can solve these problems. Common names for these instruments include radiation thermometers, infrared thermometers, infrared pyrometers, thermal line scanners and process thermal imagers.

Many non-contact continuous-process thermal imaging measurements are used for plant asset protection and extending the life of those assets. These thermal imaging devices provide full thermal coverage of an object, thus enabling better process control and improved understanding of previously unseen temperature anomalies. In production applications, such as those involving furnaces, non-contact devices can "see" and measure the temperature of an object rather than simply measuring the furnace environment's temperature.

In this webinar, AMETEK Land will discuss the physics and foundations behind today's non-contact temperature measurement systems. Attendees will be presented with many application specific measurement solution designs that have significantly improved the quality of manufactured products. In many cases these measurements will result in higher process yields and the reduction of manufacturing costs. Correct choice of this type of instrumentation can many times result in safety improvements.

Key Take-Aways

Learn key steps to take before deciding to adopt non-contact measurement technology
Understand why different non-contact designs are necessary for low and high temperature measurements
Discover why non-contact measurement can be used where contact measurement is impossible

Landscan WCA

PC software package providing detailed control and analysis for multiple LSP-HD thermal imaging linescanners. Software can support up to 8 linescanners simultaneously.

A flexible PC control interface for the LSP-HD linescanner range, LANDSCAN Windows Control and Analyse (WCA) software enables viewing and analysing of multiple live and historical temperature data streams.

The successor to LANDSCAN for Windows NT, LANDSCAN WCA offers display and analysis of data from multiple LANDSCAN Head and Saved data file combinations, offering versatile data processing options adaptable to your application needs.

With fully scalable input/output capabilities to meet your precise application requirements, the tagging and linking of multiple live data streams enables Production Process databases to be created with ease.

Easy to configure with full “plug and play” compatibility with the LSP-HD range, LANDSCAN WCA brings advanced, high-resolution thermal imaging data to applications across the glass, hydrocarbon processing, industrial processing and steel industries.

Simultaneous Display and Processing

A Combined Data Source facility extends product coverage using multiple LANDSCAN Heads, while optional interfacing to external process sensors can be made via the optional LANDSCAN I/O interface.

Flexible Communications

LANDSCAN WCA provides access to temperature measurements and processed data via a range of standard industrial interfaces including cross-platform TCP/IP protocol, OPC, analogue signals and alarm outputs.

Multiple Workstations Support

Live and historical data can be accessed at several LANDSCAN WCA client workstations by linking them to the LANDSCAN WCA data server workstation.

Licenses available for single and multiple heads, including optional and customized for:

• Client
• Plant Interfaces
• OPC
• Plant Communications (Product Determination Information (PDI), Processed Product Information (PP), Post-Product Processed (PPP)). For example: PDI for One Head / PP for One Head.

Land Applications & Industries

Cement

LAND have supplied the Cement Industry and OEM's throughout the world with temperature measuring equipment for over 60 years. All their products are designed to the highest standards of quality and reliability to ensure accurate measurements under plant operating conditions for; kiln shell, rotary kiln product & burning zone and clinker system read more >>

Iron and Steel Making

Designed to operate in the harsh environments found in steel production, these instruments are designed to the highest performance standards, optimised for making temperature measurements at every important stage of the process including; Soaking Pit (Load Temperature), Coke Oven Flue, profile, burden & conveyor, Hot blast stove, main & furnace burden, liquid iron stream, torpedo car,  ladle pre heat, ladle and tapping learn more >>

Aluminium Extrusion

LAND offers a complete new integrated range of thermometer systems dedicated solely to aluminum temperature measurement. These instruments contain unique-to-Land design features which provide inherent measurement stability and reliability. In the aluminum extrusion industry, product quality and operating profitability rely on efficient press operation. Press efficiency is increased greatly with accurate, reliable temperature measurement at critical points in the process including; preheated die, billet profile , die exit & quench exit temperatures read more >>

Aluminium Rolling

The Land Aluminium Strip Thermometer system is specifically designed to provide the aluminium hot rolling industry with a solution to one of its most difficult problems - accurate and reproducible temperature measurement of bright, semi-finished hot alloy strips learn more >>

More Industry Applications

Land has supported the global industrial community for more than 70 years, supplying innovative, reliable products and solutions. They have a worldwide reputation as innovators and manufacturers of high-quality, precision thermometers and thermal imagers.

Land's monitors and analysers provide industries with infrared, non-contact temperature measurement, combustion efficiency monitors and environmental pollution emissions detectors. Their products are used extensively in applications as diverse as steel, glass, electronics, mineral processing, power generation, utility and aircraft gas turbines, and a wide range of other industries. Ongoing development creates products for new applications and the continuous improvement of an expanding product range.

• Steel: The infrared thermometers offer process solutions across more than 50 individual applications, ensuring process efficiency and continue reading >>
• Aluminium: Including a wide range of stable, rapid response and reliable application-specific instruments designed to the highest standards continue reading >>
• Speciality Metals: Products that you need for precise temperature measurements during speciality metal production, including solutions for copper and platinum refining continue reading >>
• Calibration: The blackbody calibration sources provide a high-precision calibration of radiation thermometers, on-site and under laboratory conditions continue reading >>
• Glass: Land has developed a range of instruments specifically designed to meet the challenges of glass production continue reading >>
• Hydrocarbon Processing (HPI): Built to the highest standards of quality and reliability, their HPI measurement solutions are designed to operate in industrial conditions, delivering the accuracy you need to control your process continue reading >>
• Industrial Processing: Used extensively in a range of industrial processes including paper, plastics, ceramics and non-wovens, Land's accurate online and portable thermometers, linescanners and thermal imagers support your applications continue reading >>
• Minerals: Land supplies high-precision, reliable non-contact temperature measurement instruments specifically designed for mineral industry applications, including cement and roadstone production continue reading >>
• Power Generation: With a range of detection options for every stage of the combustion process, Land's products guard against spontaneous fires. They also provide solutions for continuous emissions monitoring and plant condition monitoring continue reading >>