The FLIR camera is an infrared camera able to visualize gas by utilizing the physics of fugitive gas leaks. The camera produces a full picture of the scanned area on the camera’s viewfinder or LCD screen, allowing the user to see fugitive gas emissions as plumes. The images can be viewed in real-time or recorded for easy archiving. The GF320 FLIR Camera is suitable for industrial applications such as oil refineries, chemical petrochemical facilities, power generation plants, and oil and natural gas production, storage, transportation, and distribution operations. This mid-wave gas detection camera can detect many gases, but it has been laboratory tested against 19 compounds, which include but not limited to, benzene, butane, ethane, hexane, MIBK, and methanol.

• Effective and time-efficient monitoring of more than 100 objects per hour.
• Detection of small leaks from several meters away and large leaks from several hundred meters away.
• Identification of the exact location of a leak through visualization of the plume.
• Providing a quick snapshot of potential leaks.
• Remote monitoring of unsafe or difficult to access locations, including areas with toxics chemicals that pose immediate health hazards when leaking.
• Detection of leaks from moving transport vehicles.
• Surveying facility areas during startups to detect leaks from previously leak free components that have been disturbed by maintenance activities or the thermal cycling during shutdown and startup.
• Observing emissions from point sources (e.g., process vents, stacks, storage tanks, flares).
• Checking for leaks in components not monitored under an LDAR program, such as leaks caused by corrosion of pipes under insulation.
• Checking closed vent system and control device leaks, especially for upstream oil and condensate storage tanks potentially subject to NSPS Subpart OOOO or other specific permit requirements.
• We provide monitoring service to the International bulk shipping operations, sea, land, rail.

Several state / Provincial agencies and EPA regional offices now utilize FLIR cameras during drive-by or fly-by field inspections, recording potential leaks without distinguishing between LDAR and non-LDAR components. Additionally, the agencies will utilize the FLIR cameras to observe point sources. This video may then be provided to the facility with the burden of demonstrating that the video does not provide evidence of potential LDAR violations or stack emission limit violations. Prior to an EPA inspection, companies should consider utilizing an FLIR camera to broadly and quickly identify potential leaks across the facility and address areas of concerns, if possible. Trinity is capable of assisting facilities both with pre-inspection scans and responding to FLIR camera video provided by EPA following an inspection