Detecting Fugitive Emissions
Detecting Fugitive Emissions
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I'm looking for a protocol/method to detect and image fugitive gas and vapor releases at a petro-chemical site using infrared themography. Through my research I'm getting bits of information on short wave IR and infrared spectrosopy. Thanks - MAC





RE: Detecting Fugitive Emissions
RE: Detecting Fugitive Emissions
Jack
Jack M. Kleinfeld, P.E. Kleinfeld Technical Services, Inc.
Infrared Thermography, Finite Element Analysis, Process Engineering
www.KleinfeldTechnical.com
RE: Detecting Fugitive Emissions
An idea?
I you wrapped the suspect device in say 1/4 or 1/2 inch fiberglass (or similar material structure)you would get a different infared temperature where the leak was vs. where it wasn't.
Why? Where no leakage existed there would be only conduction heat at the outside surface of the "fiberglass" and where a leak was present there would be leakage mass heat transfer in addition to conduction heat transfer.
Different surface temperatures = leak detected.
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