Technical Articles
IRISS, Inc. has published these technical articles:
(Temperature Sensing)
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A prominent geothermal energy producer in the Philippines has become a leader through the successful development and operation of numerous energy projects. Since 1983, the company has successfully...
(Food and Beverage)
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One of the North America's leading bottled water companies dedicated to providing customers with healthy hydration options and equally committed to keeping their people safe, recently approached IRISS...
(Electrical and Electronic Maintenance and Repair)
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Transformers are everywhere feeding various voltages into our homes and businesses and most people take them for granted. When a transformer fails in a commercial or industrial setting, power...
(Electrical and Electronic Maintenance and Repair)
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With an impending skills gap among technical workers, proactive maintenance plans must also be safe, efficient and easier to implement....
(Electrical and Electronic Maintenance and Repair)
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An electrical maintenance program is a schedule of planned maintenance testing and corrective actions with the intent of preventing failures of critical assets. An effective electrical maintenance...
(Electrical and Electronic Maintenance and Repair)
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There exists a dangerous misconception regarding the "Arc Rating" of infrared (IR) windows or viewing panes. Many reliability and maintenance professionals are under the impression that an IR window...
(Electrical Distribution and Protection)
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SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory has been helping create the future for over 50 years. The name SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory pays homage to the legacy...
(Electrical Distribution and Protection)
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At IRISS, we provide our customers unsurpassed quality at every touch point. We focus on what we do best by continuously improving infrared (IR) window technology, building reliable products,...
(Electrical Distribution and Protection)
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The installation of Infrared Windows into electrical distribution equipment is an excellent way to kick-start a Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) Program. Standard round and rectangular IR windows are...
(Temperature Sensing)
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A regional Power Generation Facility had been tasked by their insurance carrier to perform regular preventive maintenance on the switchgear within their facility. Unfortunately, regular downtime was...
(Temperature Sensing)
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The New Age industry claims that Crystals are thought to posses different levels of energy that produce effects that enhance our health and overall wellness. These beliefs are currently outside the...
Custom Solutions for High Arc Flash Incident Energy and Interlocked Electrical Enclosures Case Study
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Many facilities have embraced the safety requirements of NFPA 70E and the safetyby-design features now available from most electrical switchgear manufacturers. Many times in the past, however, failure...
(Temperature Sensing)
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Manufactured in 2013, the Maersk Intrepid is a drilling rig that has been designed to operate in the extremely harsh environment of the North Sea. Up to 150 people stay on the rig at any one time so,...
(Electrical Distribution and Protection)
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A paper mill in Georgia had run a very successful infrared inspection program for a number of years via
a local contract thermographers working with the mill's in-house electricians. Although the...
(Nondestructive Testing Equipment)
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One of our distribution partners, Iris Systems, was recently approached by one of their clients who had moved premises into a purpose built manufacturing facility. The client's engineering team were...
(Nondestructive Testing Equipment)
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One of our distribution partners, Iris Systems, was recently approached by one of their clients who had moved premises into a purpose built manufacturing facility. The client's engineering team were...
(Nondestructive Testing Equipment)
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Connected Power Phosphate Services LLC of Lakeland, Florida services the maintenance needs of the mining sector in Florida and Georgia and are a preferred channel partner of IRISS Inc. One of their...
(Nondestructive Testing Equipment)
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One of our clients, a UK Automotive Manufacturer with a long and storied history, recently suffered an arc flash incident on a transformer which resulted in the cable connection door being dislodged...
(Temperature Sensing)
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The material emissivity (written as "e" or "e") is the relative power of its surface to emit heat by radiation. Materials are assigned an emissivity value between 0 and 1.0. Emissivity is a measure of...
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Recently, the chief electrician of a large offshore drilling company realized the problems his staff were having performing safe and efficient infrared inspections on their electrical equipment. In...
(Temperature Sensing)
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Vandolah Power, a Power Generation Plant in Florida, struggled with inspecting their 18KV, 8000Amp Generator Breaker through the factory installed standard viewing windows. The windows had suffered...
(Electrical Distribution and Protection)
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The telecommunications company, the TalkTalk Group, has appreciated the value of thermal imaging for many years. The technology is used to detect electrical faults that could disrupt its network...
(Temperature Sensing)
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Infrared (IR) windows save lives. Most Thermographers today are thankful to perform their scans without the danger and time of removing heavy panels. But just as the thermal imager is a tool - so is...
(Electrical Distribution and Protection)
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As CEO and Founder of IRISS, Inc., I am often asked how and why I designed our product line the way I did. As is common with such product development processes, there was no single epiphany which...
(Temperature Sensing)
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Electrical accidents happen daily; however, there are important steps that companies and individuals can take to reduce the occurrence of these accidents and protect everybody concerned from the...
(Temperature Sensing)
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As the saying goes, "garbage in, garbage out." This truism is every bit as applicable in thermography as it is in computer data-mining. The difference is that the inaccurate data which leads a...
(Nondestructive Testing Equipment)
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The Middle East based State Owned Utility company use the IRISS Sonus PD instrument to test for Partial Discharge in their medium voltage Switchgear and accessories. In March 2014, high levels of...
(Electrical Distribution and Protection)
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The Five Towns Complex in Clearwater Florida was experiencing an observable leak around one of their swimming pools in the complex. The maintenance manager, Chad Moises, hired a pool leak detection...