The FLIR GF306 gas-detection camera from FLIR Systems employs a cooled long-wave (LW) infrared (IR) detector for greater sensitivity enabling it to scan large areas rapidly, pinpoint leaks in real-time and provide verification of processes. It is suitable for monitoring applications that are difficult to reach with contact measurement tools. Literally thousands of potential leak sites can be scanned per shift without the need to interrupt the process. As a non-contact measurement device, the FLIR GF306 is safe allowing potentially dangerous leaks to be monitored from several metres away.
The GF306 gas-detection camera can visualise a wide range of gases including ethylene, propylene, acetic acid, ammonia, sulfur-hexafluoride (SF6) and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that cannot be seen with the naked eye. The GF306 gas-detection camera has proven itself in the electrical utility, petrochemical, chemical and refrigerant industries.
A great deal of the equipment used in the distribution of high-voltage electrical power uses SF6 as an insulating gas. This allows the equipment to be more compact and protected from the elements inside substations. The FLIR GF306 is extremely sensitive to SF6 leaks, a greenhouse gas that is 24,000 times more dangerous to the environment than carbon-dioxide (CO2).
Petrochemical plants make hydrocarbon substances using base feed-stocks from their oil-refining processes by either conversion processes or further separation that is not normally carried out at an oil refinery. Leakages of many of the volatile chemicals used or made in these plants can be readily visualised using the FLIR GF306 gas-detection camera, thereby protecting the environment, reducing lost product and eliminating potentially flammable emissions.
In the chemical industry the FLIR GF306 is widely used to monitor batch and continuous processes that involve inorganic or organic (non-hydrocarbon) gases, which are highly dangerous to operators even at very low levels (e.g., hydrazine, methylsilane, ethyl cyanoacrylate and uranyl fluoride).
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