電力業界では、ガスタービンに設置される火炎センサーとしてロイターストークスのFlame Tracker製品群の信頼性が高く評価されています。このUV式のFlame Trackerは、多くのモデルの標準装備OEM機器ですが、Flame Tracker Dry FTD325は、この標準モデルの進化版として、ISPおよびエンドユーザーのメンテナンス費用削減を促進します。Flame Tracker Dryは、温度に敏感なコンポーネント（特にセンサー部分）を極端な温度にさらさないように保護することにより、複雑な水冷システムの破損リスクを取り除きます。
UV式の火炎スキャナーは、IRセンサーとは異なり、黒体放射の影響を受けず、熱電対の熱慣性がないため、燃焼状態の変化により迅速に応答できます。Flame Trackerファミリーは、ガスタービンなどの重要なインフラ機器の適切な動作のために重要であるため、熱電対のように保守作業が必要になりやすく、故障する可能性が高い状況で最適です。
トップ燃焼型水蒸気メタン改質装置では、起動時にのみ火炎検知器を使用する傾向があり、プラント停止前の工程で運転障害を起こす可能性があります。Flame Trackerは、プラントのライフサイクル全体を通じて作動し続け、改質装置に必要な限界以上の温度に耐えられるよう設計されているため、交換は不要です。
Reuter-Stokes' Flame Detectors are designed for monitoring a wide range of industrial burners and equipment including:
- Gas Turbines
- Industrial Boilers
- Steam Methane Reformers
- Enclosed Ground Flares
- Drying Kilns
- Industrial Ovens
IR vs. UV Flame Detectors
Unlike IR sensors, UV flame scanners respond more quickly to changes in flame status because they are not subjected to black body radiation and lack the inertial memory of a thermocouple. Users rely on Reuter-Stokes flame sensors for proper operation of gas turbines and other critical infrastructure and are ideal in situations where other service-prone technologies, like thermocouples, tend to fail.
Top-fired steam methane reformers tend to use flame sensors for start-up only and expect them to fail before operations are ramped down, while traditional sensors installed in areas with excessive heat tend to burn out. Our Flame Trackers continue to operate throughout a plant’s lifecycle without the need for replacement, as they are designed to withstand temperatures beyond the range required for methane reformers.
Flame Tracker Dry FTD325は、水蒸気メタン改質装置、特に計測のそばで高温を発生して高い故障率を引き起こすトップ燃焼型システムに最適です。改質器の上部の計装ハウジングは150°Cに達することもありますが、FTD325は最高310°Cまでの温度に耐えられます。これにより、オペレーターは常に改質器内の炎に関する重要な情報が得られ、消火時のメタンや合成ガスの存在による爆発の危険を低減します。
Flame Tracker EGFは、システムの応答が遅く故障率が高い従来の熱電対では信頼できる正確な情報を提供できない封入型グランドフレアで使用するように設計されています。UVセンサーを使用した見通し線測定により、フレア口火のステータスをほぼ瞬時に読み取ることができるため、オペレーターは口火が消えたことが直ちにわかるようになります。
Gas turbines power much of our world today. To sustain reliable power supply, gas turbine operating conditions must be comprehensively safeguarded to protect productivity, profits and most importantly, lives. Front and center to mitigating risks in the harsh, high-temperature, and high-stakes gas turbine environments are flame sensors. Monitoring combustion flame condition with immediate, automated fuel shut-off for flameouts, is crucial to ensure safe gas turbine operations and prevent potentially catastrophic events. When it comes to flame monitoring, however, all are not created equal.
The high-heat, hard conditions of gas turbine operations inspired the design of dry UV flame monitoring technology. As a result, the technology utilizes remote electronics, eliminates risks of water leaks, reduces water lines and associated costs, simplifies outage activity, and related labor costs. The benefits speak for themselves and the installations are yet another proof point in the adoption of dry, UV flame monitors for gas turbines.
When you put it all together, you begin to see why we are the preferred OEM solution for some of the largest Gas Turbine manufacturers in the world.
Across industrial operations, managing and safeguarding your most critical machinery is a top priority. In plants using fired process equipment (i.e. boilers), these assets are universally regarded as among the most crucial to manage and control. Why? Because safety, productivity, and profitability rely heavily on the proper operation of highly critical fired process equipment.
Due to the inherent nature of fired operations, manufacturing conditions are typically harsh, high temperature, and high stakes. Front and center to mitigating risks in the challenging industrial manufacturing environments that employ fired equipment, are flame sensors. Monitoring combustion flame conditions with immediate, automated fuel shut-off for flameouts is crucial to ensure safe operations and prevent potentially catastrophic events.
With our extensive track record in delivering reliable sensors in harsh environments, a track record that sets us apart from the competition with their limited temperature ranges, you can attain real peace of mind when it comes to monitoring your fired process equipment.
Ideally suited for steam methane reformers, the Flame Tracker Dry FTD325 is especially useful for top-fired systems that produce excessive heat near instrumentation, which can produce a high failure rate. Instrument housing on top of the reformer can reach 150 degrees C, whereas the FTD325 handles temperatures up to 325 degrees C. This ensures that operators always have critical information about the flame in the reformer while reducing high volatility risk and the very real danger of a catastrophic explosion caused by the presence of methane or syngas when the flame is extinguished.
Flame Tracker EGF is designed for use with enclosed ground flares where traditional thermocouples can fail to provide reliable, accurate information due to the system’s slow response and higher failure rate - and in an industry-leading response time. With our Flame Tracker EGF, you can respond to your flame out status in seconds, not minutes. A UV sensor’s line-of-site measurement provides a nearly instantaneous reading of the flare’s pilot status that immediately tells operators that the pilot has been extinguished.
Performance benefits of the Reuter-Stokes Flame Tracker EGF include:
- Provides reliable operation when using virtually any fuel
- Responds quickly to changes in the pilot flame
- Easy installation outside the enclosed ground flare
- High sensitivity for low-light operation
Managing and safeguarding your critical production machinery is always a top priority. In plants using fired process equipment such as kilns and ovens, these assets are often regarded as among the most crucial to manage and control.
Kiln and oven manufacturing conditions are typically harsh, high temperature, and high stakes. Therefore, durable, rugged flame sensors are crucial to mitigating the risks found in these challenging industrial manufacturing applications. Monitoring these combustion flame conditions with immediate, automated shut-off capabilities is crucial to ensuring safe operations and the prevention of potentially catastrophic events.
With our extensive track record in delivering reliable sensors in harsh environments, a track record that sets us apart from the competition with their limited temperature ranges, you can attain real peace of mind when it comes to monitoring your fired process equipment.
