TP55 - Limitations of LWIR Cameras for Industrial Air Leak Detection
- Event
- EUROSENSORS XXXVII
2025-09-07 - 2025-09-10
Wroclaw - Band
- Poster II
- Chapter
- Sensors for Automation and Industry
- Author(s)
- K. Lex, T. Sauterm, H. Brückl - University of Continuing Education Krems, Wiener Neustadt (Austria)
- Pages
- 466 - 467
- DOI
- 10.5162/EUROSENSORS2025/TP55
- ISBN
- 978-3-910600-07-2
- Price
- free
Abstract
Infrared (IR) cameras have seen increasing applications such as autonomous driving, healthcare,surveillance, condition monitoring within the industry, and many more. This work explores the possibility of usingan unfiltered, uncooled VOx long-wave infrared (LWIR) detector to detect compressed air leaks. By loosening afitting and comparing the minimum temperature within the area of the leak from a series of thermal images tothe theoretical temperature drop expected from the expanded gas, we demonstrate limitations that these types ofcameras are not generally suitable by themselves for detecting compressed air leaks within the industrial landscape.