Cracking furnaces are used in a variety of applications such as the production of ethylene, hydrogen, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), and ammonia. In each of these processes, it is important to measure the the temperatures of the tubes in which the reaction is occurring. This measurement is widely known as tube metal temperatures (TMT’s). CANTY’s high temperature camera systems are installed on these furnaces to obtain video during operation. This video is fed into CANTY’s Smart Tube software to monitor TMT’s, identify hot spots, and even track the position of individual tubes as they shift over time.
