Critical equipment

Choose Fiber Optic Monitoring To Get Complete Coverage Of Your Assets

When you monitor your industrial assets correctly, you can

Reduce downtime;
Extend asset lifetime;
Boost energy efficiency;
and increase safety.

And when we say monitor 'correctly', we mean monitor with a Fiber Optic Sensing system. The process industry extensively relies on point sensors to monitor critical assets and processes. However, point sensors cannot provide complete coverage of large assets, leading to delays in detecting a leak, needless replacement of infrastructure and a large amount of manual surveys.

With fiber optic sensing, you can cover up to 70 km with one sensing system. It is also possible to connect as many fiber optic circuits as you want to one sensing system. This way you can monitor your pipelines AND your tanks AND your reactors, all at once.

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Fast And Accurate Monitoring With Fiber Optic Sensing

Fiber Optic Sensing is especially interesting for difficult-to-reach infrastructure such as underground pipelines, reactors, ovens or tanks. Moreover, traditional point sensors are often cumbersome to install, are prone to wear and lack robustness. Fiber optic cable is very robust, can stand the test of time and is easy to install.

It's an AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM: No site inspection visits are needed anymore. The system is independent of additional field power supply or additional communication installations. Data is sent in real-time to web portals.

It's a COST-EFFECTIVE solution for continuous long-term monitoring: Every minute a measurement over several years.

It's HIGHLY ACCURATE: Fiber optic cables are insensitive to EMC. The parameters can be monitored with high precision, without any drift.

It's ATEX PROOF: No electricity involved. Only light is sent through the fiber.

Cui-Control: The Silver Bullet For Corrosion Under Unsulation

40 to 60% of pipe maintenance costs are due to CUI (Corrosion Under Insulation). That's giant.

And it doesn't need to stay that way. Because here at Fluves, we invented CUI-CONTROL. With CUI-CONTROL, based on Fiber Optic Monitoring, you can constantly monitor if any water is present in the insulation and how far it is advanced.

NO NEED to dismantle the cladding or the insulation > The fiber is installed on the OUTSIDE of the cladding/jacketing.
It's a continuous system that sends you an alert or alarm when action needs to be taken.
It's highly accurate and can give you the exact location up to 1 meter accuracy.
You can take action before corrosion is even happening on your piping.
There is no need anymore for manual inspections of the cladding (our experience has shown us that most of the CUI was happening at spots where there were no visible signs of damage on the outside of the cladding/jacketing)

It's tested and proven at BASF Antwerp in Belgium.

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Industrial Furnaces

Large industrial ovens and furnaces are an example of difficult-to-reach infrastructure. Standard inspection techniques such as thermal cameras are difficult to apply.

Using Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS), Fluves can quickly detect degradation in the thermal insulation and identify which parts of the oven need to be repaired and which parts are still in perfect condition.

Our technology also prioritizes the locations according to the remaining lifetime of the thermal insulation.

This knowledge results in a significant reduction of maintenance costs.

“The expectations we had of the Fluves monitoring system were largely exceeded.” — ERIK INDESTEEGE supervisor repairables and instrumentation at APERAM

For more information: Download our leaflet on Fiber Optic Monitoring for Furnaces

Pipelines

Leaks or intrusions in underground pipelines were extremely hard to detect in the past. That is why Fluves has developed a method that combines expertise in flow physics and the newest Distributed Sensing technologies to detect and locate even the most elusive leaks with ease.

Fluves' algorithms recognize and classify the distinct sound signatures of leaks and intrusions that are recorded by the fiber. An easy-to-use web interface shows the condition of every meter of pipeline in real time, allowing you to precisely locate leaks and intrusions in your pipeline before they get any worse.

This means you're not only preventing damage from the leakage, but you can also save massively on maintenance and inspection: Instead of having to dig up and replace large stretches of underground pipelines, you only need to focus on the affected section. The estimated ROI of our technology is generally less than 2 years.

Download our brochure on critical equipment: Fluves - Brochure - Critical Equipment

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