CIRA Infrared Analytics – Ladle / EAF / LMF

Here, how to avoid this!

In steelmaking torpedoes are used to transport hot metal from the blast furnace to the steel shop, ladles are used inside the steel shop to move the liquid steel between stations.
Torpedoes and ladles behind the steel amour have refractory linings, required to have thermal shock resistance, abrasion resistance, impact and corrosion resistance and also oxidation resistance.
There are risks of breakouts from time to time, with equipment damage, production loss and even more importantly there are risk of personnel injuries because a breakout is a very dangerous event.
CIRA reduce this risks monitoring the ladle surface continuously using thermal cameras for analysis of the ladle and torpedoes temperatures distribution.

Immediate Benefits

  • Preventive – Breakout early warning
  • Health and Safety
    -Reduce frequency of breakouts – improve safety of employees and reduce damage to equipment
    -Improve reaction time between temperature readings and operator notification
  • Assist ladle floor operators with making informed decisions about inspection and repair locations
  • Optimize refractory life

Key Features

  • IA Models to identify and classify Spillover, splashes, false alarms, and real hot spot, as well as hot spots in development
  • Repeatable Measurement – Consistent detection
  • Detailed Historical non-limited data
  • Web based user experience – Responsive for mobiles. Existing clients computers and network
  • Realtime temperature trendings | Cursors | IR Images Palettes & ROI
  • Temperature Inspection Pixel by Pixel
  • Real time alarms through HMI and emails

System Interface Overview

  • Live Video: Real time video from cameras, alarms view for current HEAT.
  • Ladle History: Temperature trending graph for all HEATS, the screen allows to filter by HEAT#, TIME, LADLE#
  • Ladle Image History: Images for most important events of every HEAT (start/end, maximum temperature reached in slag line/barrel)
  • Alarms Report: Alarms detected in every HEAT, the screen allows to filter by HEAT#, TIME, LADLE#
  • Maintenance screens:
    -SCADA Trendings: Graph view for all tags
    -System Status: Processes status and diagnostics.

Software Overview – UX

  • User Management – Viewer | Operator | Supervisor Profile
  • Live video feed in HTML5
  • Real Time Visualization
  • ROI’s- Region Of interest – Tools for manual analysis
  • Alarms – Hot Spot Detection (Plain Colored indication for easy visualization)
  • Reports and Historical Data

CIRA for Ladles automatically grabs thermal images processes the images, triggers warnings or alarms and stores all the information to be consumed by any client connected to the existing intranet.
CIRA is the only hot spot detection system that contains AI models to identify and classify spills, splashes, avoiding false alarms and reporting real hot spots, as well as developing hot spots in time.

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