Non-Contact Infrared Temperature Measurement

Applications 

The following illustrates all the different areas our sensors can be used listed by industrial segment then by application.  

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Cement Industry:

• Cold clinker in bucket elevator or conveyor belt
• Outer wall of cylindrical rotary kiln
• Sinter zones

Ceramic/Graphite

• Enamel frits 
• Graphite heating 
• Graphite mixture 
• Heat resistant ceramics and roof tiles 
• High pressure sintering (HIP process) 
• Sintering ceramics 
• Tunnel oven

Chemical, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical 

• Claus plant   
• Drying of powders and granulate   
• Flame recognition   
• Pill manufacture   
• Stirring and kneading machines

Electronic Industry   

• Lamp manufacturers   
• Surface-mounted electronic components

Foodstuffs, Paper, Textile Processing   

• Chocolate processing   
• Drying   
• Fruit juice filling units   
• Tobacco drying

Glass industry   

• Float glass, cooling ovens   
• Glass drops   
• Glass forming   
• Glass rods   
• Glass walls   
• Glass/metal sealing   
• Glowing and hardening of glass   
• Measurement in the Feeder   
• Molten glass   
• Molybdenum plates in melting ovens   
• Shaped tubes   
• Tempering and bending   
• TV tubes, bulbs

Iron and Steel Industry- Blast furnaces   

• Coke oven plants   
• Continuous casting   
• Cowper  
• Foundries   
• Hot strip mills, hot rolling plants   
• Molten metals   
• Pellets on conveyor belts

Mechanical engineering and turnkey eqt.   

• Bottle labeling machines   
• Glue track measurements   
• Plasma coating eqt.   
• Plasma cutting   
• Robot controls   
• Shaping of honeycomb structures 

Metalworking   

• Annealing   
• Coating   
• Coil coating   
• Conductive Heating   
• Continuous press   
• Flame tempering   
• Forging   
• Friction welding   
• Galvanized coatings   
• Induction heating   
• Inductive tempering   
• Laser cracking   
• Laser tempering   
• Shape measurements   
• Sintering   
• Tempering   
• Tempering hardness   
• Thixotropic shaping   
• Vacuum soldering

Ovens   

• Continuous annealing   
• Continuous heating   
• Drying ovens   
• Furnaces   
• Pusher type ovens   
• Vacuum ovens   
• Walking beam furnaces

Plastic and Rubber   

• Calendering and grinding   
• Coating   
• Curing   
• Extruders   
• Heat forming   
• Mixing mill   
• Packing and sealing   
• Plastic Materials   
• Plastic sheet   
• Shape measurements   
• Tire temperature

Semiconductor Industry   

• Crystal growing   
• Wafer coating   
• Wafer heat treatment

Waste disposal plants   

• Flame temperatures(oil, coal)   
• Heat beds   
• Pariculate measurements (smokestake currents)   
• Wall temperatures in cylindrical burner

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