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SAFETIS application overview

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MOST IMPORTANT SAFETIS APPLICATIONS

Thermal imaging monitoring of

burning chimneys

Many industries use chimneys to burn unwanted flamma-
ble side or waste products from normal operation. This
system, under normal safe burning circumstances, is often
used in the oil and chemical industries and in gas distri-
bution facilities. Before burning these substances can be
hazardous either to people, as well as animals or plants,
therefore, it is very important that gases escaping from
these substances into the air, are not burnt haphazardly.
In a carefully controlled burning procests these compounds
are neutralized and the impact on the environment is min-
imal. However, regulations require that this burning must
be really safe. Therefore, it must be monitored. Mainly the
ignition and flame setting phase must be monitored.

Thermal imaging monitoring of

burning waste
Fire Safety
The amount of waste produced worldwide is continuously
increasing. The Czech Republic produces annually approxi-
mately 3.5 to 5.5 million tons of communal waste. At pres-
ent approximately 75% of communal waste in the Czech
Republic is stored on depots.
About 400,000 tons of this waste is consequently thermal-
ly processed in waste incineration plants in Prague, Brno
and Liberec which produces about 2.3 million gigajoules
of heat and about 18,000 megawatt hours gross produc-
tion of electricity. For various types of waste products,
thermal proceeding is practically the only suitable way of
processing.

Thermal monitoring of Casting La-
dle in Metallurgical Processes

The use of casting ladles for steel is currently one of the
most used processes in the metallurgy. In order to ensure
that the casting ladle, as a basis for the ladle metallurgy,
has a sufficient service life, it must be made from high
quality refractory materials.
However, during its use, it gradually wears out due to the
erosive and corrosive effect of the molten steel, which can
in extremity result in a tear and subsequent accident. The
wear process can be slowed down by the proper use of the
ladles that resides in keeping their work temperatures high
and constant in ideal case. It is also necessary to ensure a
quality permanent lining and insulation layer of the ladle.