With the advance of clean fuel, the world ethylene raw materials light, domestic oil refining capacity growth accelerated. The oil refining industry is one of the pillar industries of our economy and it is very important to ensure its safe and efficient production. Infrared thermal camera is widely used in many industries. As an important tool for monitoring and detection, it is also very important in oil refining industry.

The application of infrared thermal camera in oil refining industry is as follows:

1. Equipment Corrosion Status Assessment

Infrared thermal camera is widely used to evaluate equipment corrosion status, assist to locate corrosion defects, guide corrosion detection and monitoring, etc. It is an important means of corrosion monitoring in oil refining and chemical industry.

2. Non-contact Inspection of Electrical Equipment

In the oil refining industry, transformer busbar contact temperature is an important item in the inspection of electrical equipment. In the past, operators often used infrared point temperature instrument for detection. However, this detection method is prone to leakage detection and little detection, and requires close detection, which has potential safety hazards. By using infrared thermal camera, the contact of all contacts can be detected only by taking a set of infrared images, and there is no need for close measurement, which ensures the life safety of the detection personnel.

3. Save Energy and Reduce Consumption

One of the main factors for the increase of steam loss in enterprises is the heat loss caused by the thermal insulation damage of thermal pipelines, especially the long-haul steam pipelines. In the past, the inspection of thermal insulation of pipelines was usually made by visual observation or manual inspection with a point thermometer, which resulted in heavy workload, low efficiency and easy leakage. Infrared thermal imager can quickly and effectively carry out large-area pipeline thermal insulation inspection, timely find the damaged parts of thermal insulation materials, inform the staff to carry out thermal insulation repair, reduce heat loss. The method is also suitable for the rapid inspection of the insulation layer of large storage tanks requiring steam tracing.

The application of infrared thermal camera in the oil refining industry is far more than the above applications, there are also many unconventional applications, such as buried pipeline trend judgment, tank liquid level determination, etc., which bring great convenience to the oil refining industry.