Introduction to Optical Gas Imaging (OGI)
Technology
- OGI Technology helps to find gas vapor leaks quickly, saving time and money.
- OGI displays invisible gases as clouds of smoke in the video data.
- OGI Operators can scan broad sections of survey areas and equipment rapidly.
- OGI helps to detect methane, sulfur hexafluoride, and hundreds of other industrial gases.
- OGI Program is great investment with significantly high RoI.
Who should use OGI?
- Maintenance Team to identify leaking components, prioritize repairs and check repair effectiveness.
- Environmental Team to inspect and monitor leaking components for fugitive emissions and leaks analysis.
- Safety Team to inspect and monitor job site for any possible invisible leaks leading to hazards and risks.
- Pipeline Patrol Team to detect and identify random emission leaks points.
- Liquid Fuel Storage Tank Operations Team to detect, identify and monitor emission leaks.
- Fuel Logistics Team to identify Transportation wastage emission leaks.
- Solid Fuel Storage and Handling Teams to identify hotspots for timely preventive action.
Why use OGI Technology?
- Visual Evidence based emission leak identification, tracking and reporting.
- Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis for prioritizing component emission leak repairs.
- Cost-effective Gas / Vapor Leak Detection.
- Can Operate to Detect Emission Leak from Safe distance.
- Easy collaborate and share Component Emission Leak Video Data across teams.
- Identify Emission Leaks when they are small and starting.
- Highly accurate Emission Leak pin point location identification.
- Can detect emission leak of inaccessible components.
- Consistent and Reliable results.
How OGI Technology works?
- Optical Gas imaging is a highly specialized infrared camera.
- It uses quantum detectors which are cooled to cryogenic temperatures around -200℃ by Stirling Cooler.
- Optical Gas imaging uses spectral filter method to detect the gas compounds.
- The gas compounds infrared absorption characteristics is wavelength dependent.
- The mounted filter allows very specific radiation wavelengths to pass through to cooled quantum detector.
- When gas cloud exists between the background object and camera, the gas absorbs radiation.
- The amount of radiation passing through the cloud to the cooled quantum detector will be reduced.
- This radiation contrast between gas and background is captured by detector and converted into visual data.
