KNOWLEDGE

Glass International - A Furnace-profiling Partnership

Monday, January 13, 2025

In our latest article in the Glass International Magazine, Philippe Kerbois, highlights the benefits of a partnership between LAND and training, research and development body Glass Futures.

Temperature measurement company, LAND, A Business of AMETEK Inc, has partnered with Glass Futures to support activities at its training, research and development (R&D) facility in the UK.

Based in St Helens, UK, the Global Centre of Excellence is the first of its kind in the world, allowing Glass Futures to trial and demonstrate disruptive technologies and ideas.

LAND and Glass Futures are collaborating to advance training and R&D at the facility using LAND’s technology and decades of experience. Previously, Glass Futures purchased a system from LAND for the first trial on combustion for flame optimisation on different fuels, which has led to this long-standing partnership.

LAND has now supplied its Automatic Retraction System (LPAR) along with the IPV2 and NIR-Borescope-2K-Glass (NIR-B-2K-Glass), a short-wavelength radiometric infrared borescope imaging camera.

The NIR-B-2K is a calibrated instrument providing repeatable and reliable temperature measurement into the furnace, which is based on oxy-gas technology with potential conversion to other fuels, including hydrogen.

This will identify cold and hot spots immediately, and profiling the furnace in this way will make it easy to conduct the furnace through the ultra-clear, high-definition (1968 x 1476 pixels) thermal images while offering unparalleled precision in temperature measurement from any of the three million temperature points in the image.

Click here to read the full article in the Glass International Magazine