Thermography

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  • Thermography

What Are An Arc Flash & Arc Blast

An Arc Flash is an energy discharge of light and heat that forms when a fault occurs in an electrical circuit. The arcing results in a tremendous amount of energy being released as current flowing through ionized air. An Arc Blast, separate from an Arc Flash, is a supersonic shockwave produced when the uncontrolled arc vaporizes the metal conductors.

Five Minute Facts
  • Thermography

Mechanical Infrared Opportunities

While infrared is one of the most versatile of condition monitoring tools, we often fail to utilize it to its full potential. We know infrared is a key technology for all levels of electrical applications but when establishing condition monitoring programs, we may not realize what a great support technology it is for a variety of mechanical applications....

Five Minute Facts
  • Thermography

Procedures

The development of inspection guidelines or procedures are crucial to the success and sustainability of infrared programs. They can improve safety, consistency and support the continuity of your program. This brief tip will introduce the benefits of creating and utilizing infrared procedures. Also examples of the concept of generic and specific guidelines that can be used on different equipment categories will be shown.

Five Minute Facts
  • Thermography

Is That a “Real Hot Spot” or Just a Reflection?

So much emphasis is placed on emissivity that in many cases reflectivity is not given the respect and attention it deserves. When capturing high-quality infrared data, reflected or background energy must be known, along with an understanding of how it is influencing the image and data.

Nine Minutes of Knowledge
  • Thermography

Tank Levels

The reliability of tank level indicators has improved significantly over the past few decades. This tip will discuss how taking advantage of differences in thermal capacitance of tank contents allows for fast and effect tank level inspections.

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  • Thermography

Bridging the Maintenance Gap to Condition-Based Maintenance Part II

EMSDs, along with data analysis and a new approach to maintenance called condition-based maintenance, can exploit the information age to not only bridge the knowledge gap, but to also improve the efficiency, safety, reliability and cost of electrical system maintenance…

Two Minute Tips
  • Thermography

Qualities of a Good Image

A high-quality infrared image is where it all begins. This provides the best possible data for analysis of the object(s) of interest. Many of the requirements involve necessary setup for the collection of accurate radiometric data such as focus and range. This tip will share some of the most important items to consider when capturing a great infrared image.

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  • Alignment + Balancing
  • Condition Monitoring Management
  • Lubrication
  • Motor Testing
  • Oil Analysis + Wear Particle
  • Thermography
  • Ultrasound
  • Vibration Analysis

Getting Started

Welcome to the home of condition monitoring; CBM CONNECT! The site is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...

Nine Minutes of Knowledge
  • Thermography

Four Electrical Failure Modes

Electrical failure modes can be divided into four main categories. This tip will briefly discuss these categories and their associated thermal patterns to help the field thermographer better understand and identify thermal anomalies found in the field...

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