Rotary kiln brick layer thermal monitoring systems
AssigneeQuantum Ir Technologies, LLC
InventorMark Israelsen
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Abstract
A system for monitoring brick in a rotary kiln includes an infrared sensor and a computing system configured to: obtain a digital model of a brick layer of a rotary kiln having a plurality of bricks, wherein the digital model of the brick layer is based on a measured brick thickness correlated with a measured infrared temperature for each brick; obtain infrared data of the rotary kiln with the at least one infrared imaging sensor; determine the measured infrared temperature for each brick; determine a brick thickness of a first brick in the brick layer of the rotary kiln based on the measured infrared temperature assigned to the first brick with the digital model of the brick layer; and provide the brick thickness of the first brick in a brick thickness report.
Claims22
A system for monitoring brick in a rotary kiln, comprising:
- at least one infrared imaging sensor;
- and
- a computing system operably coupled with the at least one infrared imaging sensor, wherein the computing system is configured to:
- obtain a digital model of a brick layer of a rotary kiln having a plurality of bricks, wherein the digital model of the brick layer is based on a measured brick thickness correlated with a measured infrared temperature for each brick;
- obtain infrared data of the rotary kiln with the at least one infrared imaging sensor;
- determine the measured infrared temperature for each brick;
- determine a brick thickness of a first brick in the brick layer of the rotary kiln based on the measured infrared temperature assigned to the first brick with the digital model of the brick layer;
- and
- provide the brick thickness of the first brick in a brick thickness report.
A method for monitoring brick in a rotary kiln, comprising:
- providing a system having at least one infrared imaging sensor and a computing system operably coupled with the at least one infrared imaging sensor;
- obtaining a digital model of a brick layer of a rotary kiln having a plurality of bricks, wherein the digital model of the brick layer is based on a measured brick thickness correlated with a measured infrared temperature for each brick;
- obtaining infrared data of the rotary kiln with the at least one infrared imaging sensor;
- determining the measured infrared temperature for each brick;
- determining a brick thickness of a first brick in the brick layer of the rotary kiln based on the measured infrared temperature assigned to the first brick with the digital model of the brick layer;
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- providing the brick thickness of the first brick in a brick thickness report.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.