SABIC adds ATEX cameras at Teesside site
21 May 2012
Middlesbrough, UK — SABIC UK Petrochemicals Ltd has installed ATEX explosion proof digital cameras to improve equipment monitoring in hazardous areas at its Teesside petrochemicals plant.
The SABIC site’s engineering team has noted significant time savings across a number of projects following the adoption of the ToughPIX 2303XP cameras, from CorDEX Instruments.
The camera has been used by the team on a number of projects including: monitoring process-critical valves, a tank decommissioning project and tank rim seal fire detection work.
“Using our photographs we have also been able to show the maintenance team which pipework and associated instrumentation has to be disconnected and removed as part of a tank decommissioning project,” said Wayne Douthwaite, assistant technical engineer at SABIC UK.
“Without the camera this would have required a member of our team to point out or mark the assets before work could begin so it represents a significant time saving for us.”
The CorDEX camera is designed for use in harsh environments and can capture still and moving images in AVI format of up to 10 mega pixels. The device is also ATEX and US CSA certified to take images within zone 1 IIC T4 andcClass 1 division I B, C, D hazardous areas.
